How did the Columbian Exchange transform diets around the world? Why did expanding global trade hurt textile workers in India? In what circumstances did the COVID-19 virus become a global pandemic? Panorama explores these questions by following the journey of humankind in a global context, weaving a world-scale narrative with a single chronological thread. It empowers you to connect the regional histories of particular states, empires, and cultural traditions to larger patterns of change on hemispheric and global scales-examining migratory movements, networks of trade, the spread of religions, pandemics, and environmental transformations. Richly illustrated with 120 images and 50 maps, this new edition is organized into four chronological parts, each covering a defined era in world history. Volume 2 starts in the mid-fifteenth century CE and surveys up to the present day. Each chapter includes dedicated learning features: "Individuals Matter" presents biographical sketches of individuals, both notable historical figures and ordinary people, whose lives in some way illuminate the chapter''s main developments. "Weighing the Evidence" asks you to analyse and interpret primary sources, either texts or visual artifacts. "Thinking about the Past with Global and Comparative Themes" encourages you to examine the threads of change that cut across global space and time. "Thinking History" questions help consolidate your knowledge, and "Reflecting on the Past" questions invite you to contemplate broader chapter themes. In-margin definitions of words and phrases help build key vocabulary. With its unique global narrative, chronological storytelling and exceptional features, Panorama provides a clear framework to analyse and engage with the changes, continuities, and anomalies in our world''s past-and their impact on the present.

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Ross Dunn is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University, where he taught African, Islamic, and world history. He was the first elected president of the World History Association, and he is a recipient of that organization's Pioneers of World History award. Dunn's book The Adventures of Ibn Battuta is widely used in both world and Islamic history classrooms, and History on Trial figured in an engrossing national controversy over history learning standards. Dunn's The New World History has made a major contribution to the advance of world history studies. Urmi Engineer Willoughby is an Associate Professor of History at Pitzer College, where she teaches courses on the intersection of health and ecology in North America and in world history. Her research focuses on histories of disease and medicine from a global and ecological perspective. Her first book, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Louisiana State University Press, 2017) was awarded the 2017 Williams Prize for the best book in Louisiana history. Her current project, titled Cultivating Malaria: The Historical Ecology of Fever in Early America, is an environmental and cultural history of malaria in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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PART 1 - THE GREAT WORLD CONVERGENCE 1450-1750
Chapter 1: Oceans Crossed, Worlds Connected 1450-1550
On the Eve of the Great World Convergence
Changes in the Afroeurasian Trade Network
Europeans Looking East
The Eastern Atlantic Rim
States in the Americas
The Birth of the Atlantic World
Changing Maritime Technology
Europeans and Tropical Africans: Early Encounters
Crossing and Connecting Oceans
American Catastrophes
Indigenous American Death and the Columbian Exchange
The End of the Aztec Empire
Assault on the Inca Empire
The Portuguese Claim to Brazil
New Power Relations in the Southern Seas
To Capture the Spice Trade
The Trans-Pacific Link

Chapter 2: Afroeurasia and Its Powerful States 1500-1600
States on the Rise in the Sixteenth Century
The Ottoman Empire's Dramatic Growth
The Safavid Empire of Persia
Mughal Power in South Asia
Russia: From Principality to Empire
The Tokugawa in Japan
Strong Monarchies in Southeast Asia
The European States
The Songhay Empire
Firearms and State Power
New and Deadly Armies
The Military Revolution
The Limits of Central Power
Trends in Religion, Language, and Culture
Intellectual and Moral Ferment in China
Tension between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims
Religious Crisis in Europe
Vernacular and Prestigious Languages

Chapter 3: The Expanding Global Economy: Expectations and Inequalities 1550-1700
Three Major Global Developments
The Worldwide Network Takes Shape
The Continuing Columbian Exchange
Climate Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Afroeurasia and the Expanding World Economy
Western Europe's Economic Thrust
Centuries of Silver in East Asia
Asians and Europeans in the Southern Seas
The Atlantic Economy: Land, Capital, and Slave Labor
The Atlantic Economy and African Slavery
Change in Atlantic Africa

Chapter 4: The Changing Balance of Wealth and Power 1600-1750
Empires and Big States
Chinese Prosperity and Imperialism
Russia from the Baltic to the Pacific
The Spanish Empire in America
Europe: The Aims and Limits of Absolutism
Encounters between Indigenous Peoples and European Settlers
European Settlers Abroad
Indians and Europeans in the North American Woodlands
Russians and Siberians
Europeans and Khoisan in South Africa
Alternative Visions of God, Nature, and the Universe
Scientific Advances
The Enlightenment: Rethinking Human Nature and Society
The Continuing Growth of Islam and Christianity

PART 2 - THE MODERN WORLD TAKES SHAPE 1750-1914
Chapter 5: Waves of Revolution 1720-1830
World Economy and Politics, 1720-1763
A Commercializing World
Troubled Empires in Asia
Global Trade and the Eighteenth-Century "World War"
Revolutions around the North Atlantic Rim
The Global Context of Popular Revolt
The War of Independence in British North America
The French Revolution
The Birth of Haiti
The Second Wave: Revolutions in Latin America
Colonial Society on the Eve of Rebellion
The Wars of Independence
Many Young States

Chapter 6: Energy and Industrialization 1750-1850
The Energy Revolution
The Fuel That Lies Beneath
The End of the Biological Old Regime
Industry on a New Scale
Cotton and the Drift to Industrialization
Mines and Machines
Working in Factories
Was There Something Special about Britain?
Social and Environmental Consequences of Early Industrialization
Industrialization and Global Exchange in the Early Nineteenth Century
The Energy Revolution Takes Hold
The Threads of Commerce
Free Trade and the New Doctrine of Liberalism

Chapter 7: Coping with Change in the New Industrial Era 1830-1870
Millions Migrating
Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade
The Outpouring from Europe
Indigenous Peoples and Settler Colonies
Migrations from Asia
Oceania Connected
Groundswells of Political and Social Reform
Nationalism and the Power of the People
Varieties of Socialism
Movements for Women's Rights
Movements for Political Reform and Unification in Europe
Modernizing Reforms in Muslim Lands
The Limits of Liberalism in Latin America
Religion and Reform
Global Trends and Religious Change
Christian Evangelism
Jewish Reform
Religious Reform and Revolution in the Muslim World
Global Change and the Calamitous Wars of Midcentury
The Crimean War and the Industrialization of Violence
Paraguay: A War of Annihilation
The Taiping Rebellion in China
The Great Indian Rebellion
Civil War in the United States

Chapter 8: Capital, Technology, and the Changing Balance of Global Power 1860-1914
The Spread of Steam-Powered Industry
Wealthy…