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set ISBN 9781859862483
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Covering a time-span of 2.5 million years ago to 1997, this reference is more than a listing of wars, treaties and battles. It features art, architecture, thought and scholarship, music, scientific and technological developments, as well as history and popular culture and everyday life.
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v.1 ISBN 9781859862810
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Starting with the year 3000 BC, this volume traces the growth of civilizations and empires around the world - Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, Greece, Italy and the Americas. It begins as the Neolithic and Bronze Age culture of Siyalk comes to an end, and concludes in the year in which Christopher Columbus made preparations for his momentous voyage, a year that also saw the births of Henry VIII, the future king of England, Jaques Cartier, the French explorer of the North American Atlantic coast, and the death of William Caxton, the first English printer.
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v.2 ISBN 9781859862827
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Starting with Christopher Columbus's momentous journey across the Atlantic to the Americas in 1492, this chronology covers the period in world history in which Europeans established their first permanent colonies around the world. It concludes with the Continental Congress extending the so-called Olive Branch Petition to King George III of Great Britain in a final attempt to avert the American Revolution. During this period Europe saw the Protestant Reformation and numerous wars, especially the destructive 30 Years' War of 1618-48, while the Islamic world extended its borders and China made outstanding technological and economic advances.
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v.3 ISBN 9781859862834
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Begins with the ratification of the American Declaration of Independence and ends with the re-election of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, the Boxer Rising in China, and the Paris International Exhibition. During this period, the world changes more in the course of a few generations than in the previous 1000 years and sees such innovations as the automobile and aeroplane, the telephone, psychiatry, the camera, the radio, Coca-Cola, and the ice cream cone.
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v.4 ISBN 9781859862841
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This volume begins with the death of President McKinley in the USA, propelling Teddy Roosevelt into office, and of Queen Victoria in the UK. During the same year instant coffee is created, the Chicago White Sox win the first American League championship, and students and workers riot throughout Russia over the repression of political activity. As 1998 draws to a close, it ends a century racked with The Great Depression and two World Wars, but marked by phenomenal strides of human endeavour.
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