Index of All Topics
INTRODUCTION: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WORLD HISTORY, 1500-PRESENT
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Video: The Eurocentric View of History
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY "MODERN"?
Redefining the Modern World
◾ Video: Modern: The Tyranny of the European Model
◾ Sidebar: Conventional Wisdom in Textbooks
Decoupling "Modern" from "European"
Appreciating Asian Dynamics
◾ Video: Comparing Modern China and Modern Europe
◾ Video: Partial Parallels: Other Places, Other Times
RETHINKING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Common Dynamics
◾ Video: Constraints of the Preindustrial World and the Historical Hinge of 1800
Industrial Evolution, not Revolution?
◾ Video: Precursors of Change
Rethinking Regions
◾ Map: Asia showing Qing and Ming era borders
◾ Video: Regional Analysis of China
Explaining the Industrial Revolution in Europe
◾ Map: Showing Magellan's route from Spain to Peru and around the world, c. 1544
CHINA AND EUROPE: THE NEW UNITS OF ANALYSIS
◾ Video with Map:
Comparing China and Europe
◾ Video: Comparing Europe with China
◾ Photo Album: Diversity of Peoples in China and Europe
◾ Video: Advanced Commercial Economies Look Similar
CHINA AND EUROPE: 1500-1800
Was China More Productive Than Europe?, Part 1
◾ Video: Comparing Core Areas
Was China More Productive Than Europe?, Part 2
◾ Sidebar: Refuting Old Beliefs
China: An "Early Modern" Society, Part 1
◾ Video: Farmer, Not Peasant
◾ Video: Contractural Relations
China: An "Early Modern" Society, Part 2
◾ Video: Productive Policies
◾ Sidebar: Merchant Incentives
◾ Video: Moving Food and Populations
◾ Video: The Qing Government and Women's Handicrafts
◾ Map: Yangzi River and the Grand Canal
China: An "Early Modern" Society, Part 3
◾ Video: The Government Promotes Cotton
◾ Photo Album: Illustrations of Cotton Cultivation and Manufacture
The Silver Trade, Part 1
◾ Video: The Silver Flow
◾ Video: The Chinese Demand for Silver
Population Growth and The Myth of the Big Chinese Family
◾ Video: Population Growth Creates Ecological Changes
◾ Sidebar: The Myth of the Big Chinese Family
CHINA AND EUROPE: 1780-1937
The Revolution Explained
◾ Video: Forget the Nation-State
What Happened?
◾ Video: China's Internal Markets
◾ Map: The New World: Both Periphery and Market
Differential Growth
◾ Video: A Fact Worth Pondering
CHINA ACHIEVES A MODERN STATE
The Precedent for Modern Politics
◾ Video: The Tradition of Campaigns
The Rural Industry Tradition in China
◾ Video: China is Consistent with China, Not with Europe
CONCLUSION: ISSUES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
◾ Video: Whose Great Miracle Is It?