The Human Record: To 1700

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001 - Education - 560 pages
Unlike some other world history texts that center on the West, The Human Record provides balanced coverage of the global past. The book features both written and artifactual sources that are placed in their full historical contexts through introductory essays, footnotes, and focus questions. The text sheds light on the experiences of women and non-elite groups while maintaining overall balance and a focus on the major patterns of global historical developments through the ages.

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Contents

Property Owners
20
The Russian Primary Chronicle
25
Confucius
64
AlMasudi
85
PERSIANS ISRAELITES AND THEIR GODS 85 Images of the Hellenistic World
135
The Secular Made Sacred
147
The Way of the Superior Man INDIA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRES
155
A RATIONAL Faxians Homeward Voyage
169
RELIGIOUS EXCHANGE AND INTERCHANGE 222 Book of Travels
257
Part Three Continuity Change
265
The Dao of Agriculture in Song China
289
The Arrival of the Turks
308
Two Christian
331
Gods Deputy or a Devil?
339
BYZANTIUM AND THE WEST IN THE AGE OF
365
The Fourth Crusade from a Western
372

An Alienated Woman Great World Religions to 1500 C E
177
A RELIGION
185
Genesis
208
The Quran
231
RABBINICAL JUDAISM 192 The Tales of Tradition
232
Persecution and Messianic Hope and Ascent to Heaven
241
The Law or Faith? Sufi Mysticism
249
AFRICA
378
The God Who Descended from
396
Quiché Mayan Gods and Monarchs
402
Adventurers Merchants
415
TRAVEL IN THE AGE OF THE Pax Mongolica
426
TRAVEL BEYOND THE MONGOL ECUMENE
445
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Alfred Andrea received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Vermont, where he taught from 1967 through 2001. His initial training concentrated on medieval European history, with an emphasis on Byzantine-Western relations and the Crusades. He has since published four books on the Crusades, as well as numerous articles on a variety of historical issues. For the past thirty years, his teaching, research, and writing have focused increasingly on world history before 1600, with a particular interest in cross-cultural contacts across the Silk Road. In 2002 he was Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Louisville, and he served as president of the World History Association (WHA) in 2010-2012. In 2014, the WHA recognized him as a Pioneer of World History. James H. Overfield, Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont, received his BA from Dension University, his MA from the University of Chicago, and his PhD from Princeton University. During his career at Vermont he received the University's outstanding teacher award, and served many years as Department of History Chair, in which capacity he was a strong advocate for the study and teaching of global history. His publications include Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany (Princeton University Press, 1984), as well as numerous articles on late medieval and early modern European thought. He served as editor for three volumes (1750-1914) of the ABC-CLIO World History Encyclopedia and is author of Sources of Global History since 1900 (Cengage: 2013).

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