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Shaping world history : breakthroughs in ecology, technology, science, and politics
- Title
- Shaping world history : breakthroughs in ecology, technology, science, and politics / Mary Kilbourne Matossian.
- Author
- Matossian, Mary Allerton Kilbourne.
- Publication
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xv, 247 pages : maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sources and studies in world history
- Uniform Title
- Sources and studies in world history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Kevin Reilly -- Introduction: Major Causes of Breakthroughs -- 1. From Hominids to Human Beings: Biology, Geography, and Climatic Change -- 2. The First Farmers -- 3. The Birth of "Civilization," 4000 to 500 B.C. -- 4. The Roman Empire and the Han Empire, 200 B.C. to A.D. 200 -- 5. The Chinese Millennium, A.D. 500 to 1500 -- 6. Reasoned Dissent: Printing, Universities, and Transport -- 7. Protestant Maritime Political Culture: The Breakthrough to Freedom -- 8. The Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century -- 9. The Population Explosion, 1700 to 1900 -- 10. The Industrial Revolution in Britain -- 11. Social Control Since 1789 -- 12. Darwin's Dangerous Idea -- 13. The Marriage of Science and Technology -- 14. Breakthroughs in Science, 1985 to 1997 -- 15. The Third Communication Revolution.
- ISBN
- 0765600617
- 0765600625 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96029807
- OCLC
- ocm36083505
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries