Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

Résumé du livre

Volume 2: "The organizational structure for Volume Two reaffirms the commitment to write a decentered, global history of the world that is not moving inevitably toward a "rise of the west" story. Christopher Columbus is not the starting point, as he is in so many modern world histories. Rather, we begin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries with two major developments in world history: the Mongol invasions and the destruction and recovery from the Black Death. From there we describe how major historical processes changed the modern world in significant ways, including the rise of global exploration, the creation of global cultures, the expansion of global trade, alternative visions in the nineteenth century of western expansions, the transformation of nation-states into global empires, the uncertainty and disruption of modernism, World War I and the growth of mass societies, World War II and the emergence of a three-world order during the Cold War, and the emergence and impact of modern globalism today."--