This textbook is designed to to meet the needs of History of Applied Science and Technology courses at colleges and universities around the world. Chapters will be organized around the theme of the transformative impact of technological and epistemological changes on worldview and human behavior as they relate to everyday life and global choices. We believe this textbook is the first History of Applied Science and Technology textbook to take a global approach, addressing persistent gaps in coverage in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. This is a collaborative, open access project.

Table of Contents:
I. Chapter 1 - Ancient Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent (Prehistory - ca 1750 BCE)
II. Chapter 2 - The Ancient World (before 500 BCE) – Farmers to Pharaohs
III. Chapter 5 - The Medieval Period (500 to 1400 CE) – Europe
IV. Chapter 8 - The Early Modern Period (1500-1600) – Europe – Phase I: Breakthroughs in Scientific Thought & Technological Application
V. Chapter 9 - The Early Modern Period (1600-1750) – Europe – Phase 2: The New Science of the Seventeenth Century & The Enlightenment
VI. Chapter 12 - The New Scientific Revolution - The Long 19th Century
VII. Chapter 14 - Earth Sciences and Revolution in Biology and Genetics – the Long 19th Century
VIII. Editors
IX. Authors
X. Cover & Book Design
XI. Section Editors

Survey of World History from 1500 CE to the Present.
Chapter 1: The World at 1500
Chapter 2: New Encounters
Chapter 3: The Americas and the Impact of Columbus
Chapter 4: The Question of Freedom and the Age of Revolutions
Chapter 5: The Troubled Nineteenth Century
Chapter 6: Imperialism
Chapter 7: The Great War
Chapter 8: The Modern Crisis
Chapter 9: World War II
Chapter 10: Decolonization
Chapter 11: Cold War
Chapter 12: Globalization
Chapter 13: The Anthropocene

This resource includes everything needed to teach a modern world civilization course (AP or college level): a detailed syllabus, taped lectures, a primary source reader, and a PowerPoint.

This is a video collection to support the Georgia Highlands College implementation of World Civilizations I:

https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-collections/8/

Video topics include:

Prehistory
Human Languages
Neolithic Revolution
Classical Age
Mongol Hegemony
World Religions
The Black Death
Transformations in Western Europe
Atlantic Slavery

This is a video collection to support the Georgia Highlands College implementation of World Civilizations II:

https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-collections/8/

Video topics include:

Asian Empires and the Shogunate
Abolition of Slavery and Serfdom
Modernization Theory
Nationalism
Latin American Civilization
World Economy: New Patterns
The Wilsonian Movement
World War II
Contemporary Cultural Change
Gender in Contemporary Histor

Western Civilization: A Concise History​ is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics:

Volume 1: from the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8,000 BCE through the early Middle Ages in Europe c. 1,000 CE. Volume 1 covers topics including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, and the early European Middle Ages.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Origins of Civilization
Chapter 2: Mesopotamia
Chapter 3: Egypt
Chapter 4: The Bronze Age and the Iron Age
Chapter 5: The Archaic Age of Greece
Chapter 6: Persia and the Greek Wars
Chapter 7: The Classical Age of Greece
Chapter 8: The Hellenistic Era
Chapter 9: The Roman Republic
Chapter 10: The Roman Empire
Chapter 11: The Late Empire and Christianity
Chapter 12: The Fall of Rome
Chapter 13: Byzantium
Chapter 14: Islam and the Caliphates
Chapter 15: Early Medieval Europe

Western Civilization: A Concise History​ is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics:

Volume 2: from the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. Volume 2 covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Crusades and the High Middle Ages
Chapter 2: The Crises of the Middle Ages
Chapter 3: The Renaissance: Political and Social Setting
Chapter 4: The Renaissance: Art and Learning
Chapter 5: Politics in the Renaissance Era
Chapter 6: European Exploration and Conquest
Chapter 7: The Protestant Reformation
Chapter 8: The Catholic Reformation
Chapter 9: Religious Wars
Chapter 10: Absolutism
Chapter 11: Trade Empires and Early Capitalism
Chapter 12: The Scientific Revolution
Chapter 13: The Enlightenment
Chapter 14: The Society of Orders
Chapter 15: The French Revolution

Western Civilization: A Concise History​ is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics:

Volume 3: from the Napoleonic era to the recent past. Volume 3 covers topics including the Industrial Revolution, the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era, the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Napoleon
Chapter 2: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 3: Political Ideologies and Movements
Chapter 4: The Politics of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 5: Culture, Science, and Pseudo-Science
Chapter 6: Imperialism
Chapter 7: World War I
Chapter 8: The Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 9: Fascism
Chapter 10: World War II
Chapter 11: The Holocaust
Chapter 12: The Soviet Union and the Cold War
Chapter 13: Postwar Conflict
Chapter 14: Postwar Society
Chapter 15: Toward the Present

Canvas course associated with the textbook: https://louis.pressbooks.pub/worldciv/

This course will provide you with a broad outline of World History from its origins to 1500. The course will cover the origins of humankind, our organization into cities, states, and empires, our social tendencies, economic needs, and spiritual wants. The heart of the course is to compare and contrast civilizations and cultures from five key regions: the Fertile Crescent, India, Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. We will learn how to think historically, use a variety of sources, and apply good reading and writing skills. The goal for this course is to foster openness and appreciation for other cultures, and encourage you to think creatively about modern society and your own position within it. This course was created through Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment, a project led by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network (https://louislibraries.org) and funded with a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. It features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks, and workforce representatives to enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a textbook and corresponding course available in Moodle and Canvas that can be imported to other platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana (alearningla@laregents.edu). If you are adopting this resource, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey: https://survey.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41Olbogjof6HUay

Canvas Commons course associated with the textbook: https://louis.pressbooks.pub/worldciv2/

This course will provide you with a broad outline of World History from 1500 to present. We will build frameworks and break down barriers. The course will provide a comparison of world regions at 1500, consider the Western political and economic revolutions, the growth and change of imperial China and Japan, the Islamic empires of Asia and Africa, then review the 20th century World Wars, the Cold War years and decolonization, and life in the 21st century. This course was created through Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment, a project led by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network (https://louislibraries.org) and funded with a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. It features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks, and workforce representatives to enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a textbook and corresponding course available in Moodle and Canvas that can be imported to other platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana (alearningla@laregents.edu). If you are adopting this resource, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey: https://survey.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41Olbogjof6HUay

Moodle Net course associated with the textbook: https://louis.pressbooks.pub/worldciv2/

This course will provide you with a broad outline of World History from 1500 to present. We will build frameworks and break down barriers. The course will provide a comparison of world regions at 1500, consider the Western political and economic revolutions, the growth and change of imperial China and Japan, the Islamic empires of Asia and Africa, then review the 20th century World Wars, the Cold War years and decolonization, and life in the 21st century. This course was created through Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment, a project led by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network (https://louislibraries.org) and funded with a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. It features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks, and workforce representatives to enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a textbook and corresponding course available in Moodle and Canvas that can be imported to other platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana (alearningla@laregents.edu). If you are adopting this resource, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey: https://survey.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41Olbogjof6HUay

Moodle course associated with the textbook: https://louis.pressbooks.pub/worldciv/

This course will provide you with a broad outline of World History from its origins to 1500. The course will cover the origins of humankind, our organization into cities, states, and empires, our social tendencies, economic needs, and spiritual wants. The heart of the course is to compare and contrast civilizations and cultures from five key regions: the Fertile Crescent, India, Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas. We will learn how to think historically, use a variety of sources, and apply good reading and writing skills. The goal for this course is to foster openness and appreciation for other cultures, and encourage you to think creatively about modern society and your own position within it. This course was created through Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment, a project led by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network (https://louislibraries.org) and funded with a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. It features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks, and workforce representatives to enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials are released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others. This includes a textbook and corresponding course available in Moodle and Canvas that can be imported to other platforms. For access/questions, contact Affordable Learning Louisiana (alearningla@laregents.edu). If you are adopting this resource, we would be glad to know of your use via this brief survey: https://survey.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41Olbogjof6HUay

This video textbook started with the creation of 73 supplementary 10-20 minute video lectures for World Civilizations at GHC through a Round 10 Textbook Transformation Grant. A Round 14 Mini-Grant enabled the team to create guiding questions, key terms, transcript, and table of contents for each of the 73 videos, followed by a public website to share these newly-organized resources with students and faculty.

Topics include prehistory, the classical world system, trade and the old world system, revolutions, imperialism and hegemony, the 20th century, and new global systems in the 21st century.

Survey of world history from ancient civilizations to 1500.
Chapter 1: Prehistory
Chapter 2: Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations
Chapter 3: Ancient and Early Medieval India
Chapter 4: China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
Chapter 5: The Greek World from the Bronze Age to the Roman Conquest
Chapter 6: The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 CE
Chapter 7: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500 - 1000 CE
Chapter 8: Islam to the Mamluks
Chapter 9: African History to 1500
Chapter 10: The Americas
Chapter 11: Central Asia
Chapter 12: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000 – 1500 CE