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A brief history of the world. Part 3 of 3 [compact disc] / Peter N. Stearns.

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

Content descriptions

General Note:	Course guidebooks include lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Formatted Contents Note:	Lecture 25. Abolition of slavery and serfdom -- Lecture 26. Modernization and nationalisms -- Lecture 27. Formation of Latin American civilization -- Lecture 28. China and Japan: 19th century pressures -- Lecture 29. The 20th and 21st centuries as a new period -- Lecture 30. The world economy: change and continuity -- Lecture 31. An age of revolutions -- Lecture 32. The United States in world history -- Lecture 33. Contemporary democracy -- Lecture 34. Contemporary cultural change -- Lecture 35. Gender in contemporary world history -- Lecture 36. Globalization and world history.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lectures presented by Professor Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University.
System Details Note:	Compact discs.