World History through Case Studies

David Eaton is Associate Professor of World and African history at Grand Valley State University, USA. He received his PhD from Dalhousie University in 2008, and co-hosts On Top of the World: A World History Podcast. His doctoral research focused on the history of cattle raiding along the Kenya-Uganda border, and he has published articles in several journals including Nomadic Peoples, World History Connected, and African Affairs.

Introduction
Part 1 – Prehistory to 600 BCE
1. Urge Overkill: Kennewick Man and the Settling of the Americas
2. Horsing Around: The Domestication of Mammals
3. #AncientEgyptMatters: The Black Athena Debate
Part 2 – The Age of Empires, 600 BCE – 600 CE
4. Stretching the Past: A History of Yoga
5. Whose Key to China? Confucius in History
6. Making Waves: The Bantu Migrations across Central Africa
7. Bread and Circuses: Sport and Society in Imperial Rome
8. Empress Wu Zetian: Gender in the Tang Dynasty
Part 3 – Cross-Cultural Interactions, 600 – 1450 CE
8. Veiled Meanings: Islam and Gender
9. Going Berserk: The Vikings and Violence
10. Cosmopolitan Culture: Life along the Swahili Coast
11. Empire on the Move: The Mongol Empire
12. This Island Earth: Environmental Change on Easter Island
Part 4 – The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1450 – 1750 CE
13. Supreme Sacrifice: Assessing Aztec Religion
14. Orunmila Saves: Polytheism and World Religions
15. Heavy Metals: Silver and the World Economy
16. Commodities from the East: Opium, Tea and Indigo
17. “We’ll Always Have Paris”: The Origins of Modernity
Part 5 – Accelerating Global Integration, 1750 – 1900
18. Germ Warfare: Disease and the Age of Revolutions
19. Tokyo Drift: Japan and the Industrial Revolution
20. Light and Shade: Studying Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies
Part 6 – The Modern World, 1900 – Present
21. Open Wounds: The Horrors of the Second World War
22. Global Goals: Soccer and Globalization
Conclusion
Index