Cassell's chronology of world history : dates, events and ideas that made history /

Main Author: Williams, Hywel, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
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260 3 4 |a London :  |b Weidenfeld & Nicolson,  |c 2005. 
300 3 4 |a xii, 767 p. ;  |c 25 cm. 
500 3 4 |a Includes index. 
505 3 4 |a The ancient and medieval worlds 135,000 BP-1449 -- The roots of civilization: river-valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus and the Nile -- India and Hinduism : the invention of a country -- The classical world : Polis and republic in Greece and Rome -- Bureaucracy and intelligence : the rise of China -- The rise of Islam : an Arab revolution -- Castle and cathedral : Europe's middle ages and the idea of a Christian civilization -- The early modern world 1450-1799 -- Europe's drama : renaissance and reformation -- Turkic power : the Ottoman challenge to the west -- Colonial collisions : the European push into Asia, the Americas and Africa -- The sense of the new : the enlightenment and the French Revolution -- The nineteenth-century world 1800-1899 -- Nationalism and capitalism : the dynamic order of the 19th century -- Hierarchies in collision : China and Japan in the 19th century -- An American civilization : unity, power and race in the new world -- The modern world 1900-2004 -- A continent divided : Europe from Armageddon to reconstruction, 1914-89 -- Old empires and new beginnings : decolonization and the fall of Europe -- American hegemony : the victories, dilemmas and fears of a 21st-century colossus -- Towards one world. 
650 3 4 |a Chronology, Historical 
650 3 4 |a World history 
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