The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 2 takes us from the early modern period to speculation about the world in 2050, visiting diverse civilizations, nation-states, ecologies, and people along the journey through time and place. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which ordinary people lived through the great changes of their times, and how everyday experience connects to great political events and the commercial exchanges of an interconnected world. With 75 maps, 65 illustrations, timelines, boxes, and primary source extracts, the book enables students to use historical material and social science methodologies to analyze the events of the past, present, and future.
Peter C. Perdue Bücher
From 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded significantly through diplomacy, economic investment, and military campaigns, defeating the Zunghar Mongols and controlling modern Xinjiang and Mongolia, while also influencing Tibet. This expansion shaped the China we recognize today. Peter C. Perdue chronicles this lesser-known narrative of China's northwestern frontier expansion. Unlike prior dynasties, the Qing maintained lasting dominance over the eastern half of Eurasia, employing both repression and peaceful strategies to integrate subject peoples. They heavily invested in the region's economic and administrative development, promoted trade networks, and adapted cultural ceremonies to local customs. Perdue explores how China established its rule over Central Eurasia and justified its control, examining what unifies the Chinese nation and how its relationships with the Islamic world and Mongolia evolved. He draws valuable comparisons to other colonial empires and discusses the enduring legacy of China's frontier expansion. Today, the Beijing government grapples with unrest in these regions due to its autocratic rule while simultaneously pursuing ambitious development programs reminiscent of Qing policies. This work fundamentally reshapes our understanding of Central Eurasia.