World History A Concise Thematic Analysis -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- UNIT THREE The Modern World -- Modernization -- Globalization -- The differential of power -- SPONTANEOUS EUROPEAN MODERNIZATION: PHASE ONE The Process of Change Begins -- Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase I, New Trade Routes -- Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase II, Biology and Europe -- Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase III, Warfare, Politics, and Religion -- Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase IV, Commerce -- Simultaneous Revolutions: Phase V, the State -- special topic The Elizabethan Era -- Suggested Reading -- THE DIFFERENTIAL OF POWER: PHASE ONE The Americas and Africa -- Ship Technology in 1500 -- Spain's Rapid Success in the Americas after a Slow Start -- special topic New Spain -- A Hidden Agent in the Dierential of Power: Disease -- Native American Vulnerability -- The Aztecs -- The Incas -- Brazil -- Africa's Indigenous Slave Tradition -- special topic The Middle Passage: The Transport of Slaves on the Trans-Atlantic Trip -- The Arrival of Europe -- The Sale of Slaves -- Consequences of the Slave Trade -- Suggested Reading -- SPONTANEOUS EUROPEAN MODERNIZATION: PHASE TWO The Origins of Public Opinion, the Concept of Culture, and the Nation-State -- Science, Knowledge, and Faith -- The Scientific Revolution -- Locke's Philosophy and the Idea of Public Opinion -- The Enlightenment -- The Nation-State -- The Ideology of Revolution -- The French Revolution -- Great Britain -- Suggested Reading -- THE NATION-STATE Diffusion of the French-British Model -- The Central European Experience -- Central Europeans and Internal Coherence -- Suggested Reading -- THE DIFFERENTIAL OF POWER, PHASE TWO Ideology, Medicine, and Technology Redefine Global Power -- The New Teleology -- Nation-States and Industry -- Suggested Reading.

NATION-STATE FORMATION OUTSIDE EUROPE The United States and Japan -- The United States -- Japan -- Suggested Reading -- INTERNAL DIVISIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS Russia and Latin America -- Russia -- Latin America -- Suggested Reading -- IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF MODERNITY India and China -- India -- Late Imperial China: The Ming and Qing Dynasties -- Suggested Reading -- TARGETS OF IMPERIALISM Africa and the Middle East -- Africa -- The Middle East -- Suggested Reading -- UNIT FOUR Global Violence and the Postmodern Era -- Postmodern Era -- Decolonization -- Globalization -- WORLD WAR I The Consequences of Power -- The Illusion of Progress -- The Quest for Empire and the Habits of Violence -- Danger Signs in the Short-War Phenomenon -- Misunderstanding the Short-War Phenomenon -- World War I: Total War, the Geographic Arena of Combat, Victory, and Defeat -- Suggested Reading -- TOTALITARIANISM Th e Soviet Union and Nazi Germany -- Totalitarianism -- The Soviet Union -- special topic Abandoned Marxism -- special topic The Versailles Treaty -- Nazi Germany -- Suggested Reading -- THE INHERITORS OF POWER The United States and Japan -- The United States -- Japan -- Suggested Reading -- DECOLONIZATION Phase One -- China's Republican Revolution -- India -- The Middle East -- Latin America -- Suggested Reading -- WORLD WAR II AND THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR Expanding the Potential of Self-Destruction -- World War II -- special topic Mussolini's Italy -- Mass Murder: A New Dimension to Global Warfare -- The Cold War: Redefining World Power after 1945 -- Suggested Reading -- GLOBAL DECOLONIZATION Phase Two -- China -- Japan -- India -- Africa -- special topic AIDS -- The Middle East -- Latin America -- Suggested Reading -- THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD The Complex Problems Facing a Multicultural Era -- The End of the Cold War.

special topic The Legacy of Vietnam -- The Contemporary World -- Status, Freedom, and Equality -- Population Dynamics -- Suggested Reading -- Credits -- Index.