xxxii, 828 pages : 23 cm; "'The Rise of the West after twenty-five years' first appeared in the Journal of world history 1 (1990): 1-21; c1990 by University of Hawaii Press"--Title page verso.; The era of Middle Eastern Dominance to 500 B.C. -- In the beginning -- The breakthrough to civilization in Mesopotamia -- The diffusion of civilization : first phase -- Introduction -- The civilizations of the Nile and Indus Valleys to 1700 B.C. -- Ancient Egypt -- The Indus civilization -- The transplantation of civilization to rain-watered lands -- Introductory -- Asia Minor -- Crete -- The impact of civilization on the outer fringes of the agricultural world -- Megalithic protocivilization -- High barbarism of the Eurasian Steppe.; The rise of a cosmopolitan civilization in the Middle East, 1700-500 B.C. -- Introduction -- Military-political changes -- Administrative systems -- Social structure -- Cultural conservation and advance -- Babylonia -- Egypt -- The intermediate regions -- Zoroastrianism and Judaism -- The formulation of peripheral civilizations in India, Greece, and China, 1700-500 B.C. -- Introduction -- The formulation of Indian civilization -- The formulation of Greek civilization -- Political and social development -- Cultural growth -- Religion -- Art -- Literature -- Philosophy -- The beginnings of Chinese civilization to 500 B.C. -- Changes in the barbarian world to 500 B.C.; Eurasian cultural balance 500 B.C.-1500 A.D. -- General introduction -- The expansion of Hellenism, 500-146 B.C. -- The flowering of Greek culture, 500-336 B.C. -- Introduction -- Political evolution -- The perfecting of Greek cultural forms -- Tragedy -- Philosophy -- History and rhetoric -- Monumental art -- Summary -- Hellenic expansion into barbarian Europe -- The Hellenization of the orient, 500-146 B.C. -- Military and political -- Social and cultural -- Closure of the Eurasian Ecumene, 500 B.C.-200 A.D. -- Introduction -- Expansion and development of the non-Hellenic civilizations of Eurasia, 500-100 B.C. -- India -- China -- The Far West : Rome and Western Europe, 336-146 B.C. -- The Eurasian Ecumene, 100 B.C.-200 A.D. -- Political and social developments -- Cultural growth and interchange -- Art -- Religion -- Other aspects of the high cultural tradition of Eurasia, 100 B.C.-200 A.D.; Barbarian onslaught and civilized response, 200-600 A.D. -- Introduction -- The flowering of Indian culture -- Political and social framework -- Cultural achievements -- Language -- Literature -- Religion and philosophy -- Science -- Art -- Other aspects of Indian culture -- The expansion of Indian civilization -- Southeast Asia -- Eastern Mediterranean, Iran, and Central Asia -- China -- The northern frontier : barbarian breakthrough and civilized reaction -- The great migrations -- Consequences of the migrations -- Civilizing the barbarians -- Modification of civilized military and political institutions in Western Eurasia -- Cultural changes in Persia and Rome -- The outer fringes.; The resurgence of the Middle East, 600-1000 A.D. -- Introduction -- The Moslem world -- Christendom -- India -- China and the Far East -- The outer fringes -- Steppe conquerors and the European Far West, 1000-1500 A.D. -- Introduction -- Infiltration and conquest from the Steppe -- Islamic reaction to the pressures from the Steppe -- Political and social -- Cultural -- Indians, Christians, and Jews under Moslem rule -- The Moslem heartlands -- India -- Orthodox Christendom -- The Far East -- China -- China's outliers -- The Far West -- Introductory -- The struggle for political order -- The expansion of Western Europe -- Cultural growth : the high middle ages -- Unique characteristics of West European civilization -- The fringes of the Ecumene.; The era of Western dominance, 1500 A.D. to the present -- General introduction -- The Far West's challenge to the world, 1500-1700 A.D. -- The great European explorations and their world-wide consequences -- The transmutation of Europe, 1500-1650 A.D. -- Politics -- Economics -- Culture -- Europe's outliers : the Americas and Russia, 1500-1650 A.D. -- The Americas -- Russia -- The changing balance of the Ecumene, 1500-1700 A.D. -- The Moslem world -- The Iberian Crusade and Moslem response -- The rise of Russia and its consequences for Islam -- The Sunni-Shi'a Conflict and its consequences for Islam -- The subject religious communities in the Moslem world -- Hindu India and Buddhist Southeast Asia -- Christians under Moslem rule -- Jews in Moslem lands -- The Far East -- China -- Japan -- Tibet, Mongolia, and the Central Asian Steppe -- Africa -- Conclusion.; The tottering world balance, 1700-1850 A.D. -- Introduction -- The old regime of Europe, 1650-1789 A.D. -- European expansion to new ground -- Exploration, trade, and national rivalries -- Plantations and the conscious transformation of tropical and subtropical economies -- The spread of European settlement -- Acculturation in the older outliers of Europe : America and Russia -- Spanish America -- Brazil and North America -- Russia -- The compromises of the old regime in the European heartlands -- Political and social compromises -- Intellectual compromises -- Compromises in the arts -- Elements of instability in the old regime -- Moslem catalepsy, 1700-1850 A.D. -- Ottoman reform and Christian rebellion -- Iran and Turkestan -- Disintegration of the Mogul Empire in India -- Islam in Africa and Southeast Asia.; Hindu and Buddhist Asia, 1700-1850 A.D. -- Creeping crisis in the Far East, 1700-1850 A.D. -- China -- Japan -- The retreat of barbarism, 1700-1850 A.D. -- The rise of the West : Cosmopolitanism on a global scale, 1850-1950 A.D. -- Introductory -- The Western explosion, 1789-1917 A.D. -- Territorial expansion -- Industrialism -- The first or British phase -- The second or German and American phase -- The democratic revolution -- Artistic and intellectual aspects -- The non-Western world, 1850-1950 A.D. -- The changing shape and style of the Ecumene -- The Moslem world -- Hindu India -- China -- Japan -- Other parts of the world.; A concise account of the development of the Western civlization beginning with the ancient culture of the Nile.; 

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