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- catalog alternative "Shorter history of the world".
- catalog contributor b11783509.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 539 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "019511504X (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "909 21".
- catalog subject "D20 .R656 1997".
- catalog subject "World history.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "A short history of the world / J.M. Roberts.".
- catalog title "Shorter history of the world".
- catalog type "text".