Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past (2025 Evergreen Release)

1 Early Human History

2 The Emergence of Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and Encounters with Indo-European-Speaking Peoples

3 The Emergence of Complex Societies in Africa and the Bantu Migrations

4 The Emergence of Complex Societies in South Asia

5 The Emergence of Complex Society in Mainland East Asia

6 Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania

7 The Empires of Persia

8 The Unification of China

9 State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in South Asia

10 Civilizations of the Mediterranean Basin: The Greeks

11 Civilizations of the Mediterranean Basin: The Romans

12 Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

13 The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

14 The Expansive Realm of Islam

15 India and the Indian Ocean Basin

16 Eastern and Western Europe in the Early Medieval Period

17 Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration

18 States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa

19 The Increasing Integration of Europe with the Wider World

20 Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania

21 Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural Interaction

22 Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections

23 The Transformation of Europe

24 The Integration of the Americas and Oceania with the Wider World

25 Africa and the Atlantic World

6 Tradition and Change in East Asia

27 Empires in South and Southwest Asia

28 Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World

29 The Making of Industrial Society

30 The Americas in the Age of Independence

31 Societies at Crossroads

32 The Apex of Global Empire Building

33 The Great War: The World in Upheaval

34 Anxieties and Experiments in Postwar Europe and the United States

35 Revolutionaries and Nationalists in the Colonial and Neocolonial World

36 New Conflagrations: World War II and the Early Cold War

37 From the End of Empire to the End of the Cold War

38 Into the Twenty-First Century

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