| Description |
xii, 767 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The ancient and medieval worlds 135,000 BP-1449 -- The roots of civilization : river-valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus and the Nile -- India and Hinduism : the invention of a country -- The classical world : Polis and republic in Greece and Rome -- Bureaucracy and intelligence : the rise of China -- The rise of Islam : an Arab revolution -- Castle and cathedral : Europe's middle ages and the idea of a Christian civilization -- The early modern world 1450-1799 -- Europe's drama : renaissance and reformation -- Turkic power : the Ottoman challenge to the west -- Colonial collisions : the European push into Asia, the Americas and Africa -- The sense of the new : the enlightenment and the French Revolution -- The nineteenth-century world 1800-1899 -- Nationalism and capitalism : the dynamic order of the 19th century -- Hierarchies in collision : China and Japan in the 19th century -- An American civilization : unity, power and race in the new world -- The modern world 1900-2004 -- A continent divided : Europe from Armageddon to reconstruction, 1914-89 -- Old empires and new beginnings : decolonization and the fall of Europe -- American hegemony : the victories, dilemmas and fears of a 21st-century colossus -- Towards one world. |
| Subject |
Chronology, Historical.
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World history.
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| Added Title |
Chronology of world history |
| ISBN |
0304357308 |
| Standard No. |
QBX qbi06000082 |
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NLGGC 266175473 |
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