| Description |
xv, 1232 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Bk. 1. Before History -- Beginnings -- 1. The Foundations -- 2. Homo Sapiens -- 3. The Possibility of Civilization -- Bk. 2. The First Civilizations -- 1. Early Civilized Life -- 2. Ancient Mesopotamia -- 3. Ancient Egypt -- 4. Intruders and Invaders: The Dark Ages of the Ancient Near East -- 5. The Beginnings of Civilization in Eastern Asia -- 6. The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past -- 7. The End of the Old World -- Bk. 3. The Classical Mediterranean -- 1. The Roots of One World -- 2. The Greeks -- 3. Greek Civilization -- 4. The Hellenistic World -- 5. Rome -- 6. The Roman Achievement -- 7. Jewry and the Coming of Christianity -- 8. The Waning of the Classical West -- 9. The Elements of a Future -- Bk. 4. The Age of Diverging Traditions -- 1. Islam and the Remaking of the Near East -- 2. The Arab Empires -- 3. Byzantium and Its Sphere -- 4. The Disputed Legacies of the Near East -- 5. The Making of Europe -- 6. India -- 7. Imperial China -- 8. Japan -- 9. Worlds Apart -- 10. Europe: the First Revolution -- 11. New Limits, New Horizons -- Bk. 5. The Making of the European Age -- 1. A New Kind of Society: Early Modern Europe -- 2. Authority and Its Challengers -- 3. The New World of Great Powers -- 4. Europe's Assault on the World -- 5. World History's New Shape -- 6. Ideas Old and New -- Bk. 6. The Great Acceleration -- 1. Long-term Change -- 2. Political Change in an Age of Revolution -- 3. Political Change: A New Europe -- 4. Political Change: The Anglo-Saxon World -- 5. The European World Hegemony -- 6. European Imperialism and Imperial Rule -- 7. Asia's Response to a Europeanizing World -- Bk. 7. The End of the Europeans' World -- 1. Strains in the System -- 2. The Era of the First World War -- 3. A New Asia in the Making -- 4. The Ottoman Heritage and the Western Islamic Lands -- 5. The Second World War -- 6. The Shaping of a New World -- Bk. 8. The Latest Age -- 1. Perspectives -- 2. A New World Order -- 3. Crumbling Certainties -- 4. The Closing of an Era -- 5. Openings and Closures |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History.
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World history.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
00002442 |
| ISBN |
0713996110 |
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