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

By: Williams, Hywel, 1953-Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005Description: xii, 767 p. ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0304357308 :Other title: Chronology of world historySubject(s): Weltgeschichte | Historical chronology | Histoire universelle | Chronology, Historical | World history | Chronologie historique | Chronology, Historical | World history | World history -- Chronology | Historical chronology | Weltgeschichte | Chronology, Historical | World historyGenre/Form: Reference works. | Reference works. DDC classification: 909 LOC classification: D11 | .W635 2005
Contents:
1. The ancient and medieval worlds 135,000BP - 1449: The roots of civilisation: 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. The modern world 1900-2004 -- A continent divided: Europe from Armageddon to reconstruction, 1914-89 -- Old empires and new beginnings: decolonisation and the fall of Europe -- American hegemony: the victories, dilemmas and fears of a 21st-century colossus -- Conclusion: towards one world -- Index.
Review: "Cassell's Chronology of World History is a complete work of historical reference. It not only provides a year-by-year listing of the key events of human history from the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia to the globalized, post-millennial world of today, but also sets those events in a broad historical context, thereby offering an enhanced understanding not just of how but of why the world has changed and developed over six thousand years."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The ancient and medieval worlds 135,000BP - 1449: The roots of civilisation: 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 -- 4. The modern world 1900-2004 -- A continent divided: Europe from Armageddon to reconstruction, 1914-89 -- Old empires and new beginnings: decolonisation and the fall of Europe -- American hegemony: the victories, dilemmas and fears of a 21st-century colossus -- Conclusion: towards one world -- Index.

"Cassell's Chronology of World History is a complete work of historical reference. It not only provides a year-by-year listing of the key events of human history from the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia to the globalized, post-millennial world of today, but also sets those events in a broad historical context, thereby offering an enhanced understanding not just of how but of why the world has changed and developed over six thousand years."--BOOK JACKET.

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