History of the world /

History of the world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, J. M. (John Morris), 1928-2003
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
Historia universal
Civilización
Table of Contents:
  • Bk. I. Before History
  • Beginnings
  • 1. The Foundations
  • 2. Homo Sapiens
  • 3. The Possibility of Civilization
  • Bk. II. The First Civilizations
  • 1. Early Civilized Life
  • 2. Ancient Mesopotamia
  • 3. Ancient Egypt
  • 4. Intruders and Invaders: The Dark Ages of the Ancient Near East
  • A Complicating World
  • Early Civilized Life in the Aegean
  • The Near East in the Ages of Confusion
  • 5. The Beginnings of Civilization in Eastern Asia
  • Ancient India
  • Ancient China
  • 6. The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past
  • 7. The End of the Old World
  • Bk. III. The Classical Mediterranean
  • 1. The Roots of One World
  • 2. The Greeks
  • 3. Greek Civilization
  • 4. The Hellenistic World
  • 5. Rome
  • 6. The Roman Achievement
  • 7. Jewry and the Coming of Christianity
  • 8. The Waning of the Classical West
  • 9. The Elements of a Future
  • Bk. IV. The Age of Diverging Traditions
  • 1. Islam and the Re-making of the Near East
  • 2. The Arab Empires
  • 3. Byzantium and Its Sphere
  • 4. The Disputed Legacies of the Near East
  • 5. The Making of Europe
  • 6. India
  • 7. Imperial China
  • 8. Japan
  • 9. Worlds Apart
  • 10. Europe: the First Revolution
  • The Church
  • Principalities and Powers
  • Working and Living
  • 11. New Limits, New Horizons
  • Europe Looks Outward
  • The European Mind
  • Bk. V. The Making of the European Age
  • 1. A New Kind of Society: Early Modern Europe
  • 2. Authority and Its Challengers
  • 3. The New World of Great Powers
  • 4. Europe's Assault on the World
  • 5. World History's New Shape
  • 6. Ideas Old and New
  • Bk. VI. The Great Acceleration
  • 1. Long-Term Change
  • 2. Political Change in an Age of Revolution
  • 3. Political Change: A New Europe
  • 4. Political Change: the Anglo-Saxon World
  • 5. The European World Hegemony
  • 6. European Imperialism and Imperial Rule
  • 7. Asia's Response to a Europeanizing World
  • Bk. VII. The End of the Europeans' World
  • 1. Strains in the System
  • 2. The Era of the First World War
  • 3. A New Asia in the Making
  • 4. The Ottoman Heritage and the Western Islamic Lands
  • 5. The Second World War
  • 6. The Shaping of a New World
  • Bk. VIII. The Latest Age
  • 1. Perspectives
  • Population Changes
  • Plenty
  • The Management of Nature
  • Ideas, Attitudes, Authority
  • 2. The Politics of the New World
  • Cold War Beginnings
  • Asian Revolution
  • Inheritors of Empire: the Middle East and Africa
  • Latin America
  • 3. Crumbling Certainties
  • Superpower Difficulties
  • Two Europes
  • New Challenges to the Cold War World Order
  • 4. The End of an Era
  • Epilogue: In the Light of History.

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