This like its companion volume volume 1 which covers the years up to 1500 is an excellent well written colorful college text on world history for an introductory text it thoroughly covers the time period and is written in a conversational easy to read way for history lovers it is a pleasure to read and students who take courses with this as the text are lucky. Part iii the emergence of new world patterns 1500 1800 14 new encounters the creation of a world market 15 europe transformed reform and state building 16 the muslim empires 17 the east asian world 18 the west on the eve of a new world order part iv modern patterns of world history 1800 1945 19 the beginnings of . The essential world history volume ii since 1500 9th edition william duiker jackson spielvogel published c 2020 print isbn 9780357026878 pages 544 available. The essential world history volume ii since 1500 8th edition 9781305645363 cengage duiker spielvogels the essential world history 8th edition is a brief balanced highly readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and that identify key regional patterns over time