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Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 039393778X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393937787
- Pub. Date:
- 02/24/2016
- Publisher:
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
- ISBN-10:
- 039393778X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393937787
- Pub. Date:
- 02/24/2016
- Publisher:
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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ISBN-13: | 9780393937787 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 02/24/2016 |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 400 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Clifford Rosenberg, lead author of Concise Edition Volume 2 (Ph.D., Princeton University) is associate professor of European history at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Professor Rosenberg specializes in the social and political history of modern Europe, especially France, and on the relationship between the continent and its colonial hinterlands. He has published a book on immigration control and the transformation of citizenship in interwar France. His current research concerns the spread of tuberculosis from France to Algeria and back, and efforts to combat it, from 1830 to the present. He is also the co-editor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader 4th Edition.
Table of Contents
Preface xv
Chapter 1 Becoming Human
Finding Lucy (3.2 million years ago and 1974) 1
New Skulls and a *"Bushy" Human Family Tree (7 million years ago and 2002) 13
What Foraging Hadza Grandmothers Suggest about Homo erectus Lifestyle (1.8 million years ago and 1999) 17
Rachael Moeller Gorman, Cooking Up Bigger Brains (1.8 million years ago and 2008) 21
What Happened to the Neanderthals? (45,000-30,000 years ago and 2008) 26
Temple Grandin, Dogs Make Us Human (2005) 31
*Clive Gamble, Human Tool Use and the "Pioneer Phase" of Technological and Behavioral Development (1993) 34
Chapter 2 Rivers, Cities, and First States, 3500-2000 BCE
*Royal Standard of Ur (c. 2600-2400 BCE) 37
Mencius, On the Legendary Sage Kings (c. 2400-2200 BCE) 38
*Visual Source
The Curse of Agade (c. 2150-2000 BCE) 41
Ptah-Hotep, Precepts (2300 BCE) 46
*Domesticated Animals (c. 2000 BCE) and Egyptian Labor (2125-1795 BCE) 50
*Domesticated Corn (c. 4000 BCE) 53
Casebook | Humans and the Environment in the Second Millennium BCE
Lament for Ur (c. 2000 BCE) 57
Hekanakhte's Household (2002/1 BCE) 62
Natural Disasters and the End of the Xia Dynasty (c. 1550 BCE) 65
Competing Flood Narratives in the Second Millennium BCE 69
Environmental Changes Influence Harappan Civilization (1700-1500 BCE) 78
Chapter 3 Nomads, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE
The Code of Hammurapi (c. 1792 BCE) 83
*Nebamun Inspecting Flocks and Herds (1350 BCE) 87
Amarna Letters (c. 1340-1320 BCE) 89
Egyptian Account of the Battle of Qadesh (c. 1274 BCE) 92
Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones (c. 1200 BCE) 96
Catalog of the Greek Ships that Sailed to Troy (c. 1200 BCE) 99
Chapter 4 First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE
Rig-Veda (c. 1700-1100 BCE) 107
Upanishads (first millennium BCE) 109
When Sennacherib's Forces Met Hezekiah (c. 700 BCE) 111
Cyrus the Great, The Decree for the Return of the Jews (c. 538 BCE) 118
Herodotus, Persians Debate Governance (c. 522 BCE) 120
Thucydides, "Melian Dialogue" (416/15 BCE) 123
Guanzi, How to Rule (completed c. 122 BCE) 129
Chapter 5 Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000-350 BCE
Zoroaster, Yasna 30.1-11 from the Gathas (1000-600 BCE) 133
Confucius, Analects (fifth century BCE) 136
Mencius, Humane Government (c. 371-289 BCE) 139
Aristotle, Politica (384-322 BCE) 142
Aristotle, On the Constitution of Carthage (384-322 BCE) 147
The Buddha, Sermons and Teachings (fourth century BCE to first century BCE) 148
Chapter 6 Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350-100 BCE
Arthashastra, Duties of a King (c. fourth century BCE) 153
The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (c. 300 BCE) 156
Asoka, Three Edicts (ruled 269-231 BCE) 159
Arrian, Alexander Adopts Persian Ways (324 BCE) 162
Livy, Cato Speaks Against the Repeal of the Oppian Law (195 BCE) 167
1 Maccabees, Resisting Hellenism (167 BCE) 171
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (first century CE) 177
Chapter 7 Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE
Pliny the Elder, The Seres (c. 77 CE) 183
Diodorus Siculus, On the Slave Revolt in Sicily (136-132 BCE) 185
The Debate on Salt and Iron (81 BCE) 189
Josephus on the Roman Army (c. 70 CE) 193
Sima Guang (eleventh century CE), Han Battle Tactics in 184 CE 198
Keeping the Records of the Military (Rome in 81 CE and Han in 3/2 BCE) 201
Chapter 8 The Rise of Universal Religions, 300-600 CE
Eusebius, The Conversion of Constantine to Christianity (fourth century CE) 205
Priscus, The Court of Attila (449 CE) 209
Salvian of Marseilles, On the Governance of God (fifth century CE) 213
Gregory of Tours, On the Conversion of Clovis to Christianity (sixth century CE) 216
Taming Frontier Deities in China (third-tenth centuries CE) 221
Han Yu, Memorial on the Bone of the Buddha (819 CE) 226
Chapter 9 New Empires and Common Cultures, 600-1000 CE
Quranic Comments on the Torah and the Gospels (early seventh century CE) 230
Ibn Ishaq, Biography of Messenger of God (eighth century CE) 232
Pact of Umar (ninth century CE) 236
Avicenna, The Life of Ibn Sina (early eleventh century CE) 238
Abu Ûthmân al-Jâhiz, On the Zanj (c. 860 CE) 240
Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, Journey to Russia (920 CE) 242
Ouyang Xiu, On the Eunuch Zhang Chengye (d, 922 CE) 246
Njal's Saga, Kolskegg and Thrain: Icelanders on the Move (c. 1000 CE) 251
Chapter 10 Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE
The Rise of Chinggis Khan (c. 1206) 256
Yuan Cai, The Problems of Women (twelfth century) 260
Two Views of the Fall of Jerusalem (1099 CE) 265
Joseph ben Abraham, Letter from Aden to Abraham Yiju (c. 1130) 269
Francesco Pegolotti, Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay (c. 1340) 273
Chihab Al-'Umari, The Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa (1342-1349) 277
Casebook Mobilizing for War in the Age of the Mongols
*Images of Mongol Horsemen and a Medieval European Knight (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) 282
'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror (mid-thirteenth century) 285
Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhen, Conscription and Professional Soldiers in Song China (960-1127 CE) 288
Ziya' al-Din Barani, The Challenges of Raising an Army (1357) 291
Chapter 11 Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300s-1500s
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1353) 295
The Ordinance of Laborers (1349) 300
Ibn Battuta, Visit to Mombasa and Kilwa, Rhila (c. 1358) 304
The Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433) 307
Leo Africanus, On Timbuktu (1526) 310
Bernal Díaz, A Spanish view of Tenochtitlán (1567) 312
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Madame Cristina di Lorena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1615) 315
Text Permissions 321