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From ancient rivers to modern tech, explore humanity’s epic story.
The History of the World
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2011
Summary
10000 - 500 BC: The River Civilizations
- Danube
- Mesopotamia
- Indus
- Early Empires
- China to the Zhou
- Egypt
- Mycenae and Knossos
500 BC - 1000 AD: An Axial Age?
- Plato
- Ezra
- Buddha
- Confucius
- The Glory That Was Greece
- Alexander and His Successors
- Rome to Byzantium
- Republic to Empire
- Jews and Christians, Constantine
- Islam
- Rise of Islam, Muslim Spain
- Early America
- India to the Guptas
- Gaul and Britannia
- Clovis to Charlemagne
- Angles and Saxons
- Carolingian State
- Vikings
1000 - 1600: Clash of Cultures
- Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy
- Crusades
- Great Schism
- Africa and America
- Sudanese Empires
- Aztecs and Incas
- Plains and Forest Indians
- Pueblos and Beotuk
- China and Asia
- The Horse in History
- China and the Mongols
- SE Asia
- Buddhism and the Jains
- Persia
- India
1600 - 1789: Renaissance and Reformation
- Humanism and Art
- Constance and Hussites
- Printing and Paper
- Germany
- France
- Britain
- New Worlds
- Portuguese and Dutch East Indies
- Spanish America
- North America
- Gunpowder Empires
- Turkey
- Persia
- Moghuls
- Europe in America
- Colonial Wars
- Development of the New World
- The East
- China to the 16thc
- Japan
- Korea
- SE Asia
- E Indies
- Birth of Modern Europe
- English Commonwealth
- Union
- 30 Years War
- Russia
- Poland
- Ukraine
- Enlightenment
- Romanticism
- European Thought
- Women Writers
- American Revolution
1789 - 1914: French Revolution
- Napoleon
- Reactions
- Influence
- Reconstruction
- Industrial Revolution
- Congress System
- Unification of Italy
- German Empire
- Ottoman Decline
- India and China
- Raj
- Qing China
- Opium Wars
- US-UK Rivalry
- Japanese Empire
- Americas
- Manifest Destiny
- Mexican Wars
- Slavery
- Civil War
- Reconstruction
- Explorations
- Australia and New Zealand
- Pacific
- Arctic
- Cartography
- New Empires
- France
- Germany
- Belgium
- Scramble for Africa
- New Revolutions
- Mexico
- China
- South Africa
- India
1914 - 2003: Stumbling into War
- Germany and Austria
- Russia
- Conduct of War
- Post WW1
- Versailles
- Russian Revolution
- Spanish Civil War
- WW2
- Hitler
- Conduct of War
- Post WW2
- UN
- Genocide
- China
- Decolonization
- Cold War
- Middle East
- Shrinking the World
- Air Travel
- Internet
- IT
- Soviet Collapse
- Balkan Wars
- Rise of China
Epilogue
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857384768 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857384767 |
| Author: | Frank Welsh |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Quercus Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 2.23kg |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 306mm x 368mm |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
306 × 368 mm
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About The Author
Frank Welsh
Frank Welsh was born in Washington, County Durham, and educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. His books include The Profit of the State, Uneasy City, Building the Trireme, A History of Hong Kong and A History of South Africa. He lives in France and England.
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