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

London : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005.

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Chronology of world history.

Chronology, Historical.

World history.

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.

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