Research Catalog

Title

The Penguin history of the world / J.M. Roberts.

Author

Roberts, J. M. (John Morris), 1928-2003

Publication

London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 1995.

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Details

Description

xv, 1151 p. : maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Penguin history

Uniform Title

Penguin history.

Alternative Title

History of the world.

Subject

• World history

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• BEFORE HISTORY :BEGINNINGS -- Introduction -- The foundations -- Homo Sapiens -- The possibility of civilization -- THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS -- Introduction -- Early civilized life -- Ancient Mesopotamia -- Ancient Egypt -- Intruders and invaders: the dark ages of the ancient Near East -- A complicating world -- Early civilized life in the Aegean -- The Near East in the ages of confusion -- The beginnings of civilization in eastern Asia -- Ancient India -- Ancient China -- The other worlds of the ancient past -- The end of the old world -- THE CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN -- Introduction -- The roots of one world -- The Greeks -- Greek civilization -- The Hellenistic world -- Rome -- The Roman achievement -- Jewry and the coming of Christianity -- The waning of the classical West -- The elements of a future -- THE AGE OF DIVERGING TRADITIONS -- Introduction -- Islam and the re-making of the Near East -- The Arab empires -- Byzantium and its sphere -- The disputed legacies of the Near East -- The making of Europe -- India -- Imperial China -- Japan -- Worlds apart -- Europe: the first revolution -- The church -- Principalities and powers -- Working and living -- New limits, new horizons -- Europe looks outward -- The European mind
• (cont.) THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN AGE -- Introduction -- A new kind of society: early Modern Europe -- Authority and its challengers -- The new world of great powers -- Europe's assault on the world -- World history's new shape -- Ideas old and new -- THE GREAT ACCELERATION -- Introduction -- 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 -- European imperialism and imperial rule -- Asia's response to a Europeanizing world -- THE END OF THE EUROPEANS' WORLD -- Introduction -- Strains in the system -- The era of the First World War -- A new Asia in the making -- The Ottoman heritage and the western Islamic lands -- The Second World War -- The shaping of a new world -- THE LATEST AGE -- Introduction -- Perspectives -- Population -- Plenty -- The management of nature -- Ideas, attitudes, authority -- The politics of the new world -- Cold War beginnings -- Asian revolution -- Inheritors of empire: the Middle East and Africa -- Latin America -- Crumbling certainties -- Superpower difficulties -- Two Europes -- New challenges to the Cold War world order -- The end of an era -- Epilogue: in the light of history.

ISBN

0140154957 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 33134439
• SCSB-12296735

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library