Worlds together, worlds apart . Volume Two : from 1000 CE to the present / Robert Tignor [and others].

Volume 2 consists of chapters 10-21, which cover from 1000 C.E. onward.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 C.E.: Commercial connections; Sub-Saharan Africa comes together; Islam in a time of political fragmentation; India up for grabs; Song China, 960-1279; China's neighbors, 1000-1300; Christian Europe; The Americas; The Mongol transformation of Afro-Eurasia -- Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300s-1500s: Collapse and integration; Islamic dynasties; Western Christiandom; Ming China -- Contact, commerce, and colonization, 1450s-1600: The old trade and the new; European exploration and expansion; The Atlantic world; Portugal's New World colony; The transformation of Europe; Prosperity in Asia -- Worlds entangled, 1600-1750: Increasing economic linkages and social and political effects (mercantilism); New colonies in the Americas; The slave trade and Africa; Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Transformations of Europe -- Cultures of splendor and power, 1500-1780: Trade and culture; Culture in the Islamic world; Culture and politics in East Asia; The Enlightenment in Europe; African cultural flourishing; Hybrid cultures in the Americas; Imperialism in Oceania -- Reordering the world: Revolutionary transformations and new languages of freedom; Political reorderings; Change and trade in Africa; Economic reordering; Persistence and change in Afro-Eurasia -- Alternative visions of the Nineteenth Century: Reactions to social and political change; Prophecy and rebellion in China; Utopians, socialists, and radicals in Europe; Insurgencies against colonizing and centralizing states -- Nations and empires, 1850-1914: Nation building and expansion; Expansion and nation building in the Americas; Consolidation of nation-states in Europe; Industry, science, and technology; Imperialism; Japan, Russia, and China -- An unsettled world, 1890-1914: Progress, upheaval and movement; Discontent with imperialism; Worldwide insecurities; Cultural modernism; Rethinking race ad reimaging nations -- Of masses and visions of the Modern, 1910-1939: Economic and political modernities; The Great War; Mass culture; Mass production and mass consumption; Mass politics-competing visions of becoming modern -- The three-world order, 1940-1975: Competing blocs; World War II and its aftermath; The beginning of the Cold War; Decolonization; Three worlds; Tensions in the three-world order -- Globalization, 1970-2000: Global integration; Removing obstacles to globalization; Unleashing globalization; Characteristics of the new global order; Citizenship in the global world -- Epilogue, 2001-the present.