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• catalog abstract "For many of its half a million readers around the globe, J.M. Roberts' History of the World is one of the pivotal works of our era, a book of extraordinary ambition, clarity, and style. It offers a substantial, authoritative narrative of world history following the central notion that human history is the story of change, a deliberate shaping of experience and environment. Roberts presents thoroughly engaging chapters devoted to transformative centers of human creativity from the earliest hominids to the startling global events of the 21st century. One of the elements that has made the book uniquely appealing is its powerful vision and voice. The view is personal -- even idiosyncratic -- in the sense that it is built around particular themes that shape the author's historical vision. In The New History of the World, Roberts has completely revised his monumental work for the first time, taking into account the great range of discoveries that have altered our views on everything from early civilizations to post-Cold War globalism. The mapping has been brought up to date, and large portions of text have been rewritten, addressing events as recent as the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds in the wake of the September 11 attacks. In addition to the revisions, the book is now available in a reader's format -- ideally suited for a new generation of readers anxious to open their minds to the great narrative of the human species. Roberts' book is exceptional in its genuinely global and comprehensive nature, showing the development of different civilizations through the ages: from our origins on the African savannah to AD 2002. Like no other book, it succeeds in conveying the staggering diversity of the human experience across a vast range of circumstances and habitats. If there is one book anyone truly interested in history should read, this is it. --Publisher.".
• catalog contributor b12817181.
• catalog contributor b12817182.
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description "Before history : beginnings: -- The foundations -- Homo sapiens -- The possibility of civilization -- The first civilizations: -- Early civilized life -- Ancient Mesopotamia -- Ancient Egypt -- Intruders and invaders : the Dark Ages of the ancient Near East -- The beginnings of civilization in Eastern Asia -- The other worlds of the ancient past -- The end of the old world -- The classical Mediterranean: -- 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: -- Islam and the remaking 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 -- New limits, new horizons -- The making of the European age: -- 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: -- 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: -- Strains in the system -- The era of the first World War.".
• catalog description "For many of its half a million readers around the globe, J.M. Roberts' History of the World is one of the pivotal works of our era, a book of extraordinary ambition, clarity, and style. It offers a substantial, authoritative narrative of world history following the central notion that human history is the story of change, a deliberate shaping of experience and environment. Roberts presents thoroughly engaging chapters devoted to transformative centers of human creativity from the earliest hominids to the startling global events of the 21st century. One of the elements that has made the book uniquely appealing is its powerful vision and voice. The view is personal -- even idiosyncratic -- in the sense that it is built around particular themes that shape the author's historical vision. In The New History of the World, Roberts has completely revised his monumental work for the first time, taking into account the great range of discoveries that have altered our views on everything from early civilizations to post-Cold War globalism. The mapping has been brought up to date, and large portions of text have been rewritten, addressing events as recent as the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds in the wake of the September 11 attacks. In addition to the revisions, the book is now available in a reader's format -- ideally suited for a new generation of readers anxious to open their minds to the great narrative of the human species. Roberts' book is exceptional in its genuinely global and comprehensive nature, showing the development of different civilizations through the ages: from our origins on the African savannah to AD 2002. Like no other book, it succeeds in conveying the staggering diversity of the human experience across a vast range of circumstances and habitats. If there is one book anyone truly interested in history should read, this is it. --Publisher.".
• catalog extent "xv, 1232 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195219279".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog subject "909 22".
• catalog subject "D20 .R65 2003".
• catalog subject "World history.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Before history : beginnings: -- The foundations -- Homo sapiens -- The possibility of civilization -- The first civilizations: -- Early civilized life -- Ancient Mesopotamia -- Ancient Egypt -- Intruders and invaders : the Dark Ages of the ancient Near East -- The beginnings of civilization in Eastern Asia -- The other worlds of the ancient past -- The end of the old world -- The classical Mediterranean: -- 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: -- Islam and the remaking 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 -- New limits, new horizons -- The making of the European age: -- 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: -- 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: -- Strains in the system -- The era of the first World War.".
• catalog title "The new History of the world / J.M. Roberts.".
• catalog type "text".