Название: The History of the World, 6th Edition Автор: J.M. Roberts, O.A. Westad Издательство: Oxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press Год: 2013 ISBN: 978-0199936762 Формат: pdf Страниц: 1280 Размер: 10,6 mb Язык: English
J.M. Roberts's renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of readers a tour of the vast landscape of human history.
This book addresses the what and to some degree the why of human history - from the earliest hominids into the Arab Spring of our own time.
BOOK ONE: BEFORE HISTORY Introduction 1 1 The Foundations 3 2 Homo Sapiens 18 3 The Possibility of Civilization 30
BOOK TWO: CIVILIZATIONS Introduction 41 1 Early Civilized Life 43 2 Ancient Mesopotamia 51 3 Ancient Egypt 68 4 Intruders and Invaders 88 5 The Beginnings of Civilization in South Asia 112 6 Ancient China 125 7 The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past 144 8 Transformations 154
BOOK THREE: THE CLASSICAL AGE Introduction 161 1 Remaking the Old World 163 2 The Greeks 167 3 The Hellenistic World 201 4 Rome 215 5 Christianity and the Western Transition 246 6 Classical India 300 7 Classical China 311
BOOK FOUR: THE AGE OF DIVERGING TRADITIONS Introduction 325 1 The Central Eurasian Crossroads 327 2 Islam and the Arab Empires 333 3 Byzantium and Its Sphere 357 4 The New Middle East and the Making of Europe 384 5 India 430 6 Imperial China 437 7 Japan 458 8 Worlds Apart 469 9 Europe: The Possibility of Change 482 10 New Limits, New Horizons 513
BOOK FIVE: THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN AGE Introduction 535 1 Qing China and Mughal India 537 2 A New Kind of Society: Early Modern Europe 551 3 Authority and Its Challengers in Europe 573 4 The New World of Great Powers 601 5 Europe’s Assault on the World 633 6 World History’s New Shape 661 7 Ideas Old and New 678
BOOK SIX: THE GREAT ACCELERATION Introduction 701 1 Long-term Change 703 2 Political Change in an Age of Revolution 723 3 Political Change: A New Europe 748 4 Political Change: The Anglo-Saxon World 770 5 The European World Hegemony 791 6 Imperialism and Imperial Rule 815 7 Asian Metamorphoses 833
BOOK SEVEN: THE END OF THE EUROPEAN AGE Introduction 861 1 Strains in the System 863 2 The Era of the First World War 882 3 The Making of a New Asia 914 4 The Ottoman Heritage and the Western Islamic Lands 931 5 The Second World War 944 6 Decolonization and Cold War 967
BOOK EIGHT: OUR OWN TIME Introduction 991 1 Revolutions in Science and Perceptions 995 2 The Cold War World 1037 3 Crises and Détente 1090 4 The Closing of an Era 1124 5 Openings and Closures 1147 6 Whole World History 1180
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