The Penguin history of the world

Author(s)

• Roberts, J. M. (John Morris)

Bibliographic Information

The Penguin history of the world

J.M. Roberts

（Penguin history）

Penguin, 1995

Note

First published in U.K. as The Hutchinson History of the World by Hutchinson, 1976

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A revised edition of this survey of world history. The book contains 90 specially-commissioned maps.

Table of Contents

• Book One BEFORE HISTORY - BEGINNINGS: The Foundations
• Homo Sapiens
• The Possibility of Civilization. Book Two THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS: 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 Civilizsation in Eastern Asia - Ancient India, Ancient China
• The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past
• The End of the Old World. Book Three 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. Book Four THE AGE OF DIVERGING TRADITIONS: 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. Book Five 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. Book Six 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. Book 7 THE END OF THE EUROPEANS' WORLD: 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. Book 8 THE LATEST AGE: 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.

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Details

• NCID: BA24921597
• ISBN:
  • 0140154957
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 1151 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 909
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19012541