Daily Life through History: (Academic) • ABC-CLIO

Travel through time and across the globe with Daily Life through History.

Daily Life through History provides students and researchers with insights into the rich social and cultural landscape of world history. The primary and secondary sources of this comprehensive collection support coursework and deeper subject engagement with resources addressing the social history of societies ranging from the Aboriginal peoples of Australia to the citizens of 21st-century China. Daily Life through History explores 66 distinct cultures, including the Inca Civilization, the Han Dynasty, Medieval Europe, and Postwar America with scholarly contributions by distinguished academic voices like Joseph Byrne, Harold J. Goldberg, and James Volo, as well as more than 5,000 primary sources and images for direct analysis.

Prehistory, Beginnings to 1000 BCE • Aboriginal Australia • Prehistoric Europe • The Fertile Crescent	Africa, 3000 BCE–1500 CE • Medieval Africa	Spheres of Influence, 1776–1914 • Tokugawa Japan • 19th Century Latin America • Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa • Qing China • Colonial Australia • British India
Egypt and the Near East, 3200–500 BCE • Ancient Egypt • Hebrew World	The Americas, 3000 BCE–1500 CE • Anasazi Culture • Cahokia • Inca Civilization • Mesoamerica and South America Before 1500	The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Nationalism, 1800–1914 • Civil War America • American West • Industrial America • Victorian England
Ancient Asia, 3000 BCE–500 CE • The Indus Valley • Han Dynasty	Central and East Asia, 500–1500 • Dynastic China • Mongol Empire • Heian Japan	The World at War, 1914–1945 • 1920s America • Japanese Internment
Ancient Greece, 2000–30 BCE • Minoan Civilization • Mycenaean Culture • Athens and Sparta	The Middle Ages, 500–1500 • Carolingian Europe • Viking Age • Medieval Europe • Black Death	The Cold War Era, 1945–1991 • Soviet Union • 20th Century India • 20th Century Japan • 20th Century Latin America • Europe in the 20th Century
Ancient Rome, 1000 BCE–500 CE • Roman Empire	The Emergence of Modern Europe, 1500–1700 • Reformation • Elizabethan England • Renaissance Europe • Spanish Inquisition	A New Millennium, 1991–present • Contemporary America • China in the 21st Century • Modern Russia • Modern Vietnam • Islam in the Modern World
The Byzantine Empire and Russia, 300–1500 CE • Byzantine Empire • Kievan Rus	The World Beyond Europe, 1500–1776 • Age of Sail • North America in the Age of Discovery • Mesoamerica and South America in the Age of Discovery • Plains Indian World • Colonial North America • Colonial Latin America • British and Dutch Africa
The Islamic World, 600–1500 CE • Early Muslim World • Ottoman Empire	The Age of Reason and Revolutions, 1700–1800 • Enlightenment Europe • 18th Century England • Revolutionary America

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