People's History of the World

Jeff Horn is Professor of History at Manhattan College.

• List of MapsList of Figures and TablesList of Features Acknowledgements Dedication About the Author An Introduction to A People's History of the WorldChapter 1. Isolation, Regionalism, and Exploration: The World in 1400Connecting Regions: By SeaConnecting Regions: By Land Ecological Migration Conclusion: A People's History? Be An Historian: How Do We Know What We Know? Using Primary SourcesChapter 2. Religious Practice in the Modern WorldThe Basis of Religious Authority Comparative Theology: Patterns and PraxisRitual and the Making of Meaning Conversion and Attitudes Toward Other Faiths Conclusion: Skepticism, Belief, and the Protection of Religious Belief Be An Historian: Religious ArtDebate: Conversion: Individual or Collective Decision?Chapter 3. Imperialism and the Evolution of Empire, 1500-1800 Conquest, Conversion, and Cooptation: Old Tactics in a New EraImperial ModelsThe Columbian ExchangeConclusion: Coincidence, Accidents and Structures -The Timing of Imperial ExpansionBe An Historian: Differing Accounts of the Same EventChapter 4. The Emergence and Spread of Gunpowder Empires: Political Change, 1500-1650 China and Japan Turn InwardIslamic Conquest and Consolidation in South AsiaThe Fragmentation of Africa PolitiesReligious Warfare in Europe Adaptation, Avoidance, and Recovery in the Western HemisphereConclusion: Gunpowder Politics and the Military Revolution Be An Historian: The Architecture of the Great Wall of China-The Secret Ingredient is the Sticky RiceDebate: Religious Motivations for Political ActionChapter 5. Life in Common: Community in the Modern World Village Life and the Division of LaborMarriage and Domestic LifeParenthood and Childrearing Conclusion: Living Together in the Twenty-First CenturyBe An Historian: The Meaning of a Marriage ContractDebate: The Double StandardChapter 6. The Exchange of Goods and Services: TradeNecessities and LuxuriesTransportation State PoliciesFreeing TradeGrowing Volumes: Local, Regional, Global Conclusion: Trade, the Engine of Growth and Globalization, and Its Discontents Debate: Adam Smith: Theorist or Historian?Chapter 7. Humans as Property: SlaveryThe Experience of Slavery: Masters and SlavesEuropeans, Americans, and the Practice of SlaveryGetting Them There: Slave TradesLiberation and Its Limitations Conclusion: IT IS NOT ENOUGH Debate: Did Europe Underdevelop Africa?Chapter 8. Jockeying for Position: Political Change, 1650-1775 Retrenchment in the Islamic World Adapting to a Wider World in Africa and the AmericasCentralization and the Impact of Colonization in AsiaDynastic Struggle and Internal Development in EuropeConclusion: Putting Early-Modern Politics in Perspective Be An Historian: Treaties can be TrickyDebate: What is the Basis of International Relations in a Monarchial System?Chapter 9. Manufacturing a New World Economy, 1750-1914Capital: Human and Financial Technological Pathways and Worlds of ProductionExploitation and Profit-Taking The Role of the StatePower Relations and Deindustrialization Conclusion: Manufacturing Power and Popular Resistance Debate: Was the Exploitation of Labor Necessary to a European Industrial Revolution?Chapter 10. From Scarcity to Surplus: Modern Agriculture Systems, Traditions, and Innovation Technique, Technology, the Emergence of Industrial Agriculture, and BeyondLabor and Land TenureEntrepreneurship and State Action Conclusion: The New Constraints Be An Historian: Evaluating Competing ClaimsDebate: Benefits and Consequences of the Green RevolutionChapter 11. Creation and Collapse: Revolutions and Political Change, 1775-1860 Reform, Revolution, and Reaction in EuropeLiberty and Equality in the AmericasNew Patterns of Power Arise in AfricaIsolation and Integration in AsiaConclusion: The Benefits to the People of the Age of Revolution: Short-term vs. Long-termBe An Historian: Constitutional Rhetoric vs. Political RealityDebate: Did the Enlightenment Cause the Age of Revolutions? Chapter 12. "Haves" and "Have Not's": Power Relations and Imperialism, 1800-Present Technologies of PowerGunsResistance Along the Nile Scramble for AfricaSubjects, Citizens, Colonists, ColonizedConclusion: Imperialism in the Twentieth Century Debate: Are Imperialists Poor Historians?Chapter 13. New Forms of Control: Decolonization and Economic Dominance, 1775-1914 New Ideologies and their Limitations: Revolutions as DecolonizationSlavery's Declining ImpactA New Political Economy of EmpireDecolonization and Nationalism: The Slow Disintegration of the Ottoman EmpireConclusion: Decolonization in an Age of Imperialism Debate: Is Decolonization a Revolution?Chapter 14. Privation and Powerlessness in an Age of Plenty: Political Change, 1860-1945 Africa and Asia Under European Domination Economic Integration and Political Isolation in the Americas: Myths and Realities of the American DreamEurope: From the Heights to the Depths The Human Cost of Total Wars Conclusion: Learning from Your Mistakes Be An Historian: Is Seeing Believing?Debate: Why was Socialism so Popular?Chapter 15. "Machines as the Measure of Men"?: The Changing Basis of Industrial Power, 1914-Present The Apogee of the Second Industrial Revolution (1914-45)The New Model: Soviet-Style IndustrializationCorporate Management of Production: Capital and Labor after 1945Manufacturing and the Information Economy Conclusion: Industry 4.0?Be An Historian: News is a First Rough-Draft of HistoryChapter 16. Paying for it All: Taxation and the Making of the Modern World The Growing Power of the State to Extract Revenue Beyond the Central State: Supporting Communities and InstitutionsThe Political Economy of the Evolution of the Tax Burden Conclusion: The Legacy of Tax Cuts-Debt and Inequality Be An Historian: Cadastres and the Making of the Modern StateDebate: Do High Taxes Prevent Rapid Economic Growth?Chapter 17. The Age of the Superpowers: Political Change, 1945-2001The Politics of Rivalry: The Superpowers and EuropeConsequences of the End of a Bipolar World Nationalism, Socialism, and Capitalism in AsiaSearching for Stability in the Global South: Latin America, Africa, and Constraints on the Voices of the PeopleInternational Institutions and Missed OpportunitiesConclusion: Missed OpportunitiesBe An Historian: Music MatteredDebate: Why Was 1968 Not a Year of Revolution?Chapter 18. Left in the Lurch: Decolonization, 1914-PresentInternational Agreements and the End of EmpireA Double-Edged Sword: Communism and Decolonization The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Decolonization New Nationalisms and the Search for Modernity Colonization: Decolonization and Experiments in Nation-Building Be An Historian: Authorship Matters! : Biography vs. AutobiographyChapter 19. Anxieties and Opportunities in the Twenty-First CenturyPowerlessness and the Perpetuation of Inequality The Environment in CrisisDisease and Globalization's Challenge to Public Health Protest in the Arab World Populism, Nationalism, and the Drift Toward Authoritarianism Conclusion: Inequality in the Twenty-First Century Debate: Thinking About the FutureFurther Reading CreditsIndex

A People's History of the World gives long-overdue attention to the most significant part of world history-everyday people and their connections."- Arunima Datta, Idaho State University