Encounters in world history : sources and themes from the global past / Thomas Sanders ... [et al.].
Publication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2005.Edition: 1st editionDescription: xxiv, various paging . : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0072451017 (softcover : v. 1)
- 9780072451030 (v. 2)
- 0072451033 (softcover : v. 2)
- 907.6 23 ENC
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CONTENTS
PART ONE : Early Human Societies to 600 BCE
Chapter 1. Doing History : Using Evidence to Unlock the Human Past
Chapter 2. Creating -Origin Myths and the Mythic Mode of Thought
Chapter 3. Kingship and Authority in the Ancient World
PART TWO : Foundation Cultures : 600 BCE TO 300 CE
Chapter 4. Individual Ethics and Social Responsibility
Chapter 5. Empires, War and Order
Chapter 6. Women in the Ancient World
PART THREE : The Traditional World : 300 CE TO 1100 CE
Chapter 7. Encounters with the ''Other'': Nomads and Sedentary Societies
Chapter 8. Encountering Transcendent Reality : The Rise of the Salvation Religions
Chapter 9. Conversion Encounters : The Spread of the Salvation Religions
Chapter 10 : The Artist Encounters Life : Literature and Social Values
PART FOUR : Toward a Global World : 1100 CE TO 1500 CE
Chapter 11. The Encounters Between War and Religion
Chapter 12. Land, Law, and Lordship
Chapter 13. Intellectual Traditions
Chapter 14. Illness and Therapy in the Plague Years
Chapter 15. Expanding Global Encounters in the Fourteenth Through Sixteenth Centuries
Includes bibliographical references.
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