Cassell's chronology of world history : dates, events and ideas that made history /
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London :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.