The eighteenth century : a world history
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The eighteenth century : a world history
(The new Oxford world history / general editors, Bonnie G. Smith, Anand A. Yang)
Oxford University Press, [2025] , , c2025
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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [123]-124) and index
Summary:"This book is part of the New Oxford World History, an innovative series that offers readers an informed, lively, and up-to-date history of the world and its people that represents a significant change from the "old" world history. Only a few years ago, world history generally amounted to a history of the West--Europe and the United States--with small amounts of information from the rest of the world. Some versions of the old world history drew attention to every part of the world except Europe and the United States. Readers of that kind of world history could get the impression that somehow the rest of the world was made up of exotic people who had strange customs and spoke difficult languages. Still another kind of "old" world history presented the story of areas or peoples of the world by focusing primarily on the achievements of great civilizations. One learned of great buildings, influential world religions, and mighty rulers but little of ordinary people or more general economic and social ...
収録内容
- The World of 1700 : Continuity and Change
- Climaxes and New Beginnings
- Monarchs, Trade Companies, and Revivalists
- Shifting Balances and Revolutions
- The World in the Eighteenth Century
