Research Catalog

Title

A short history of the world / J.M. Roberts.

Author

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

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

xvi, 539 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Chronologically discusses the events of history beginning with the evolution of man and ending with the restructuring of Western Europe in 1993.

Uniform Title

Shorter history of the world

Alternative Title

Shorter history of the world

Subject

• World history

Note

• Originally published: Shorter history of the world. Oxford : Helicon Pub., 1993.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• CHAPTER 1: Prehistory / Beginnings / A new grasp of the world / Homo Sapiens / Humanity in the old stone age / The coming of agriculture / The neolithic revolution / At the edge of history / CHAPTER 2: The earliest civilizations / The roots of civilization / Mesopotamia after Sumer / Ancient Egypt / Asia's first civilizations / Early Indian civilizations / Ancient China / CHAPTER 3: Foundations of our world / Interplay and Interchange / Aegean civilization / The first Greeks / Empires and peoples on the near eastern mainland / The last age of Mesopotamian empire / The emergence of Persia / The Mediterranean world / The Greek miracle / The Pelopponesian War / CHAPTER 4: The Roman world / Macedon and Hellenism / The rise of Roman power / Christianity / The Roman empire / The frontiers / Diocletian and Constantine / CHAPTER 5: Contests of civilizations / The beginnings of Byzantium / The re-making of the near east / A new world religion: Islam / The Arab Islamic world / Islam's further boundaries / Byzantium's great age: the making of Slav Europe / Inner Asian peoples / The end of Byzantium / Christendom's new neighbor / CHAPTER 6: Worlds apart: great Asian traditions / Maurya India / Hindu India / Islamic India / Imperial China / The later dynastic story / The Chinese sphere and Japan / CHAPTER 7: The making of Europe / Medieval Christendom: the west / A new European structure / The tempering of the Medieval church / Getting a living / The hinge of the twelfth century: investiture / Europe's east / Nation-making / Late medieval society / CHAPTER 8: Discovery and confrontation: the making of one world / The European initiative.
• Africa before modern times / The Americas before the Europeans / The beginnings of European colonialism / The Asian sphere / CHAPTER 9: Early modern times / The first signs of global history / The revolution in agriculture / Rulers and ruled / Churches / Two Europes / CHAPTER 10: World history in the making / New views and values / Scientific revolutions / Enlightenment / Wealth and well-being / Islam and the western world / A new America / The French revolution and its outcome / Nations and nationalists / CHAPTER 11: The great acceleration / An optimistic age / Living and dying / Killing and preserving / Feeding mankind / The new face of industry / Global commerce / A new age of machines / CHAPTER 12: The European world order / The forms of European ascendency / Knowledge and technology / White settlement / The high tide of empire / A new world power / Asia in the European age / The British Raj in India / A new Asian power / Gathering clouds / CHAPTER 13: The latest age: the long run / Recent history / Population / Growing wealth / New ways of seeing the world / The management of nature / Women / CHAPTER 14: The latest age: upheaval / The approach to disaster / The Great War 1914-18 / The Post-war world / Institutionalized revolution / Survival / Democratic difficulties / The economy 1919-39 / A troubled Asia / Revolution in the USSR / The American alternative / Revolution in Germany / Towards a second world war / CHAPTER 15: The latest age: an era of unrest / The world of 1945 / Cold War / Berlin and Korea / The end of the colonial empires / Decolonizing in Africa / A new China / A new east Asia / Cold War comes to the western hemisphere / New dangers / The emergence of a new world order / The end of the USSR / Wester Europe / Conclusion.

ISBN

019511504X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96049811^

OCLC

• 35990297
• SCSB-10203530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library