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Unit1 Introduction to Concepts of History and Historical Writing
1 The Meanings of the Term History
2 An Overview of the Debates about Historical Writing
3 Historys Natrue
4 Culture and Society
5 The Historian and His Day
Unit2 World History
6 Introduction to World History
7 A Definitrion of Civilization
8 A Comparatiove Analysis of France,Russia,and China
Unit3 Ancient Greece
9 How the Greek World Grew
Unit4 China
10 Chinese Economic History in Comparative Perspective
11 Chinese Science Explorations of an Anceient Tradition
Unit5 Japan
12 Ideology and Imperial Japan
Unit6 South Asia
13 On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India
Unit7 Islamic World
14 Muhammad and the Appearance of India
Unit8 Sub-Saharan Africa
15 Africa after Independence
Unit9 Europe
16 From Balance of Power to World Politics
Unit10 Russia and the Soviet Union
17 A Ceographical Note
Uint11 United States
18 George Washington and the Enlightenment
Unit12 Environmental History
19 Silent Spring
Unit13 The Practice of Historical Studies:Footnotes,Endnotes and Bibliongraphies
20 Chicago Manual of Style
Supplementary Reading Materials
Section1 Europe
21 The Fundamental Characteristics of European Feudalism
22 The Coming of the French Revolution
Section2 Latin America
23 Latin America since 1800
Section3 United States
24 The Cuban Missile Crisis
25 I Have a Dream
Section4 History of Popular Culture
26 The River of Rock
27 Rock and Roll
Section5 Womens History
28 The Creation of Patriarchy
Key to Exercises
Glossary