A brief history of the world. Part 3 of 3

Stearns, Peter N. (Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary: This course provides a survey of the expanse of human development and civilization across the globe. It begins with the invention of agriculture in the Neolithic era and ends with the urbanized, technologically sophisticated world of the 21st century.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598033250
ISBN: 1598033255
Physical Description: 6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (ii, 73 p. ; 22 cm.)
sound disc
sound recording
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Compact disc. Course guidebooks include lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. 3. Abolition of slavery and serfdom -- Modernization and nationalisms -- Formation of Latin American civilization -- China and Japan: 19th century pressures -- The 20th and 21st centuries as a new period -- The world economy: change and continuity -- An age of revolutions -- The United States in world history -- Contemporary democracy -- Contemporary cultural change -- Gender in contemporary world history -- Globalization and world history.
Participant or Performer Note:	Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University.