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.
List of Maps viii
Preface to Sixth Edition xvi
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
Index 1193
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