Panorama, A World History

Ross Dunn is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University, USA, where he taught African, Islamic, and world history. He was the first elected president of the World History Association, and he is a recipient of its Pioneers of World History award.Urmi Engineer Willoughby is an Associate Professor of History at Pitzer College, USA. Her research focuses on histories of disease and medicine from a global and ecological perspective. Her first book, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (2017) was awarded the 2017 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana history.

• Introduction: The Earth, World History’s TheaterThe Big Land Masses: The Main Stage of HistoryMoving Land MassesSeven Continents, or Only Five?AfroeurasiaThe Tropical BeltThe Northern Latitudes of Temperate ClimateAfroeurasia’s Mountain SpineThe Eleven SeasRiversAustraliaNorth and South AmericaConnecting the AmericasThe America’s Long CordilleraRivers and SeasThe OceansConclusionChapter 15: Calamities and Recoveries across Afroeurasia, 1300-1500Environmental Crises of the Fourteenth CenturyDownpour and DroughtThe Great PestilenceCrises in the Political and Social RealmsChina: The Collapse of Mongol RulePolitical and Economic Troubles in the Central Muslim LandsEurope in the Aftermath of the Black DeathFifteenth-Century RecuperationTechnologies for the FutureMing China: New Prosperity and a Maritime ThrustSouth Asia: A Steadier Course of ChangeAstronomy and Empire Building in the Central Muslim LandsThe Meaning of Recovery in EuropeConclusionChapter 16: Oceans Crossed, Worlds Connected, 1450-1550On the Eve of the Great World ConvergenceChanges in the Afroeurasian Trade NetworkThe Eastern Atlantic RimStates in the AmericasThe Birth of the Atlantic WorldChanging Maritime TechnologyEuropeans and Tropical Africans: Early EncountersCrossing and Connecting OceansAmerican CatastrophesAmerican Death and the Columbian ExchangeThe End of the Aztec EmpireAssault on the Inca EmpireThe Europeans have a “labor problem”Spanish Empire-BuildingThe Portuguese Claim to BrazilNew Power Relations in the Southern SeasTo Capture the Spice TradeThe Trans-Pacific LinkConclusionChapter 17: Afroeurasia and Its Powerful States, 1500-1600Afroeurasia’s Political PanoramaThe Big Three Muslim StatesThe Ottoman Empire’s Dramatic GrowthThe Safavid Empire of PersiaMughal Power in South AsiaRussia: From Principality to EmpireJapan and the TokugawaStrong Monarchies in Southeast AsiaThe European StatesThe Songhay EmpireFirearms and State PowerNew and Deadly ArmiesThe Military RevolutionThe Limits of Central PowerTrends in Religion, Language, and CultureIntellectual and Moral Ferment in ChinaTension between Sunni and Shi’a MuslimsReligious Crisis in EuropeVernacular Languages and the StateLanguages of Cultural PrestigeConclusionChapter 18: The Expanding Global Economy: Expectations and Inequalities, 1550-1700Three Major Global DevelopmentsThe Worldwide Network Takes ShapeMaritime technology and global convergenceThe new Atlantic and Pacific networks: why only Europeans?The Continuing Columbian ExchangeClimate Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesAfroeurasia and the Expanding World EconomyWestern Europe’s Economic ThrustCenturies of Silver in East AsiaAsians and Europeans in the Southern SeasThe Inner Eurasian Overland TradeThe Atlantic Economy: Land, Capital, and Slave LaborThe Atlantic Economy and African SlaveryChange in Atlantic AfricaCentral African states and Portuguese intrudersWest African statesConclusionChapter 19: The Changing Balance of Wealth and Power, 1650-1750Empires and Big StatesChinese Prosperity and ImperialismRussia from Poland to the PacificThe Spanish Empire in AmericaEurope: Successes and Failures of AbsolutismEuropean Settlement and the Fate of Indigenous PeoplesEarly European Settlers in North AmericaRussian Settlement of SiberiaEuropeans and Khoisan in South AfricaAlternative Visions of God, Nature, and the UniverseScientific AdvancesThe Enlightenment: Rethinking Human Nature and SocietyThe Continuing Growth of Islam and ChristianityConclusionChapter 20: Waves of Revolution, 1720-1830World Economy and Politics, 1720-1763A Commercializing WorldTroubled Empires in AsiaGlobal Sea Trade and the Eighteenth-Century “World War”Revolutions on the North Atlantic RimThe Global Context of Popular RevoltThe War of Independence in North AmericaThe French RevolutionThe Idea of NationalismThe Birth of HaitiThe Second Wave: Revolutions in Latin AmericaColonial Society on the Eve of RebellionThe Wars of IndependenceMany Young StatesConclusionChapter 21: Energy and Industrialization, 1750-1850The Energy RevolutionThe Fuel That Lies BeneathThe End of the Biological Old RegimeIndustry on a New ScaleCotton and the Drift to IndustrializationMines and MachinesWorking in FactoriesWas There Something Special about Britain?Social and Environmental Consequences of Early IndustrializationIndustrialization and Global Exchange in the Early Nineteenth CenturyThe Energy Revolution Takes HoldThe Threads of CommerceFree Trade and the New Doctrine of LiberalismConclusionChapter 22: Coping with Change in the New Industrial Era, 1830-1870Waves of MigrantsNineteenth-Century Slave TradeThe Outpouring from EuropeNeo-Europes and Indigenous PopulationsSouth Africa: An Unsuccessful Neo-EuropeMigrations from AsiaOceania ConnectedGroundswells of Political and Social ReformNationalism and the Power of the PeopleVarieties of SocialismMovements for Women’s RightsMovements for Political Reform and Unification in EuropeModernizing Reforms in Muslim LandsThe Limits of Liberalism in Latin AmericaReligion and ReformGlobal Trends and Religious ChangeChristian EvangelismJewish ReformReligious Reform and Revolution in the Muslim WorldGlobal Change and the Calamitous Wars of MidcenturyThe Crimean War and the Industrialization of ViolenceParaguay: A War of AnnihilationThe Taiping Rebellion in ChinaThe Great Indian RebellionThe American Civil WarConclusionChapter 23: Capital, Technology, and the Changing Balance of Global Power, 1860-1914The Spread of Steam-Powered IndustryWealthy BritainIndustrial Hubs in Europe and the United StatesSmokestacks in RussiaThe Meiji Restoration and Japanese IndustryIndustrialization on Smaller Scales: Gains and DisappointmentsCapitalism’s Global ReachThe Worldwide Communication GridFeeding Industrial SocietiesRich Regions, Poor RegionsThe Lot of the Urban Working ClassesGlobalizing Business, Technology, and ScienceEuropean Imperialism and Popular ResistanceThe Road to Colonialism in Africa and Southeast AsiaWhy did European Invasions Succeed?Resistance Movements and Their ConsequencesStates That SurvivedConclusionChapter 24: Innovation, Revolution, and Global Crisis, 1890-1920Turn-of-the-Century Prosperity, 1890-1914Commerce and GoldUrbanization and MigrationScientific and Technological AdvancesGlobal Inequities and Their ConsequencesDrought and PlagueAfrica and Southeast Asia under New Colonial RulesWorker Protest and Nationalist Ferment in EuropeFive RevolutionsThe Great War, 1914-1918Lighting the FuseA World at WarTotal WarRussia: From War to RevolutionPeace and ConsequencesConclusionChapter 25: Turbulent Decades, 1918-1935Postwar Trends in Society and CulturePopulation TrendsNew Ways of Living in the Industrialized WorldScientific Challenges to the Knowable UniverseModernity and ModerismClashing Ideologies in the Political ArenaDemocratic HopesThe Soviet Union: Communist AuthoritarianismNationalists and Communists in ChinaNew Governments on the Political RightLeft and Right in Latin AmericaColonial Rule and its Opponents in Africa and AsiaEconomy and Society in the Colonial EmpiresWays of RulingForeign Immigrants in Colonized LandsColonial Rule ContestedThe Great Depression and Its ConsequencesThe Steep DescentDepression and the Continuing Trend toward Authoritarian LeadersConclusionChapter 26: World War II and Its Aftermath, 1933-1950Empire Building and Global CrisisEmpire of the SunThe Nazi StateItaly’s Foreign AggressionsFascist Dictatorship in SpainThe Greatest WarThe Years of Axis Victory, 1939-1942The Years of Counteroffensive, 1942-1945The Second Total WarThe War beyond the Theaters of WarThe War and the Global EnvironmentIn the Wake of War, 1945-1950Restoring Stability, Enforcing JusticeThe Two New EmpiresWorld War II and the Challenge to Colonial EmpiresCommunist Victory in ChinaConclusionChapter 27: The Global Boom and Its Contradictions, 1945-1975Population and Economy: An Era of Spectacular GrowthGlobal Population at Its CrestThe Postwar Economic BoomEconomic Growth in Communist StatesThe Worldwide Lure of IndustrializationCities, Suburbs, and ShantytownsPostwar Consumer SocietyThe Biosphere in DistressThe Cold War Wears OnThe Era of Mutually Assured DestructionThe Cold War Goes GlobalFights for Freedom and JusticePaths to Independence: Protest and NegotiationPaths to Independence: Insurgency and RevolutionStruggles for Stability in Young StatesHigh Expectations and Social ProtestConclusionChapter 28: Countercurrents of Change, 1970-2008An Electrified WorldThe Era of the Integrated CircuitThe Electronics of TransportComputers and the BodyUnintended Consequences of Electronic InnovationCountercurrents in the Global EconomyThe 1970s: An Economic Turning PointConflicting Capitalist DoctrinesShifting Centers of Economic PowerThe Persistence of PovertyMigration and the Global EconomyCountercurrents in the Search for Global OrderThe World State System since 1970A World of OrganizationsDisorder and Breakdown in an Era of Global IntegrationPalestinians and IsraelisInto the AnthropoceneEnvironment and EnvironmentalismThe Perils of Climate ChangeConclusionChapter 29: 2008-present (In development)

Praise for first edition:“Finally, a world history text that puts human history on world time! Focused on humankind as a whole and its interactions over time, Panorama provides a conceptually organized and integrative approach to the human past”