| | | Document Type | : | BL | | Record Number | : | 102649 | | Doc. No | : | b59846 | | Main Entry | : | Roberts, J. M., (John Morris),1928-2003. | | Title & Author | : | The history of the world /J.M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad. | | Edition Statement | : | Sixth edition. | | Page. NO | : | xiv, 1,260 pages :maps ;24 cm | | ISBN | : | 9780199936762 (acid-free paper) | | | 0199936765 (acid-free paper) | | Notes | : | "The fifth revised edition was published in Great Britain as The new Penguin history of the world by Penguin Press/Allen Lane, 2012"--Title page verso. | | Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references and index. | | Contents | : | The foundations -- Homo sapiens -- The possibility of civilization -- Early civilized life -- Ancient Mesopotamia -- Ancient Egypt -- Intruders and invaders -- The beginnings of civilization in South Asia -- Ancient China -- The other worlds of the ancient past -- Transformations -- Remaking the old world -- The Greeks -- The Hellenistic world -- Rome -- Christianity and the western transition -- Classical India -- Classical China -- The central Eurasian crossroads -- Islam and the Arab empires -- Byzantium and its sphere -- The new Middle East and the making of Europe -- India -- Imperial China -- Japan -- Worlds apart -- Europe: the possibility of change -- New limits, new horizons -- Qing China and Mughal India -- A new kind of society: early modern Europe -- Authority and its challengers in Europe -- The new world of great powers -- Europe's assault on the world -- World history's new shape -- Ideas old and new -- Long-term change -- Political change in an age of revolution -- Political change: a new Europe - Political change: the Anglo-Saxon world -- The European world hegemony -- Imperialism and imperial rule -- Asian metamorphoses -- Strains in the system -- The era of the First World War -- The making of a new Asia -- The Ottoman heritage and the western Islamic lands -- The Second World War -- Decolonization and cold war -- Revolutions in science and perceptions -- The cold war world -- Crises and dťente -- The closing of an era -- Openings and closures -- Whole world history. | | Subject | : | World history. | | Dewey Classification | : | 909 | | LC Classification | : | D20.R65 2013 | | Added Entry | : | Westad, Odd Arne. | | | Roberts, J. M., (John Morris),1928-2003. |
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