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J. M. Roberts and O. A. Westad THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF THE WORLD SIXTH EDITION Contents List of Maps Preface to the Sixth Edition BOOK ONE BEFORE HISTORY Introduction 1 The Foundations 2 Homo Sapiens 3 The Possibility of Civilization BOOK TWO CIVILIZATIONS Introduction 1 Early Civilized Life 2 Ancient Mesopotamia 3 Ancient Egypt 4 Intruders and Invaders 5 The Beginnings of Civilization in South Asia 6 Ancient China 7 The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past 8 Transformations BOOK THREE THE CLASSICAL AGE Introduction 1 Remaking the Old World 2 The Greeks 3 The Hellenistic World 4 Rome 5 Christianity and the Western Transition 6 Classical India 7 Classical China BOOK FOUR THE AGE OF DIVERGING TRADITIONS Introduction 1 The Central Eurasian Crossroads 2 Islam and the Arab Empires 3 Byzantium and Its Sphere 4 The New Middle East and the Making of Europe 5 India 6 Imperial China 7 Japan 8 Worlds Apart 9 Europe: The Possibility of Change 10 New Limits, New Horizons BOOK FIVE THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN AGE Introduction 1 Qing China and Mughal India 2 A New Kind of Society: Early Modern Europe 3 Authority and Its Challengers in Europe 4 The New World of Great Powers 5 Europe’s Assault on the World 6 World History’s New Shape 7 Ideas Old and New BOOK SIX THE GREAT ACCELERATION Introduction 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 Imperialism and Imperial Rule 7 Asian Metamorphoses BOOK SEVEN THE END OF THE EUROPEAN AGE Introduction 1 Strains in the System 2 The Era of the First World War 3 The Making of a New Asia 4 The Ottoman Heritage and the Western Islamic Lands 5 The Second World War 6 Decolonization and Cold War BOOK EIGHT OUR OWN TIME Introduction 1 Revolutions in Science and Perceptions 2 The Cold War World 3 Crises and Détente 4 The Closing of an Era 5 Openings and Closures 6 Whole World History PENGUIN BOOKS THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF THE WORLD J. M. Roberts was born in Bath and educated at Oxford. He was a Fellow and Tutor of Merton College, Oxford, from 1953 to 1979. From 1979 to 1985 he was Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University and from 1985 to 1994 Warden of Merton College. From 1967 to 1976 Roberts was joint editor of the English Historical Review. He is the author of Europe 1880–1945, The Mythology of the Secret Societies, The Paris Commune from the Right, The Age of Revolution and Improvement and The French Revolution. In 1985 BBC2 transmitted the thirteen-part historical series The Triumph of the West, which Roberts wrote and presented, and later in the year he published his book of the same title. He was historical adviser to the successful BBC television series People’s Century. Roberts was also the author of The Penguin History of Europe and The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century. He died in May 2003. O. A. Westad was born in Norway and educated at the University of Oslo and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1990 to 1998 he was Director of Research at the Nobel Institute, and from 1998 Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He has published fifteen books on modern and contemporary international history, among them The Global Cold War (2005), which won the Bancroft Prize, and Decisive Encounters (2003), a standard history of the Chinese civil war. He also served as general co-editor of The Cambridge History of the Cold War (2010) and as an editor of Cold War History. His new book is Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750. List of Maps Sites of Some Celebrated Discoveries of Hominid Fossils Early Sites of Farming in the Middle East and Europe The Fertile Crescent Ancient Egypt The Indus Valley China – Physical Climatic Changes in the Sahara Civilizations of the Middle East The Greek World of the Aegean The Persian Empire of the Achaemenids The Peloponnesian War Alexander’s March to the East The Hellenistic World soon after 200 BC The Mediterranean c. 600 BC Southern Italy 509–272 BC The Punic Wars – Major Events Roman Expansion Major Roads, Cities and Garrisons of the Empire in the Age of the Antonines Judaism in the Ancient World Paul’s Missions The Sassanid Empire c. 400 The Making of the Eastern Roman Empire Völkerwanderung Justinian’s Empire 527–65 China under the Han Dynasty Central Asia Seventh-century Arabia The Early Spread of Islam Islamic Iberia c. 1050 Islam beyond the Arab World until 1800 The Byzantine Empire c. 1265 and c. 1354 The Growth of Venice as a Mediterranean Power Kiev Rus The Mongol Empires South-eastern Europe c. 1400 Ottoman Expansion Charlemagne’s Europe Christendom before the Islamic Conquest The Medieval Empire Christendom in the Eleventh Century Muslim India German Eastward Expansion The Crusader Wars European Universities Founded before 1500 Mughal India European Trading Stations and Possessions in Africa and Asia c. 1750 Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe Europe (Treaty of Westphalia 1648) The Beginning of the Ottoman Retreat in Europe Russian Expansion 1500–1800 The Growth of British Power in India 1783–1804 Exploration of the Americas British Atlantic Trade in the 1770s Economic Resources of the British American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century Africa in the Early Modern Era Christian Missionary Activity in Africa and Asia in the Nineteenth Century The Emergence and Consolidation of the United States Napoleonic Europe
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