Description
Contents
One-volume: Prologue, Chapters 1–26
Volume 1: Prologue, Chapters 1–11
Volume 2: Chapters 10–26
Prologue: Humanity Before History
1. Origins: The Near East, Egypt, and Greece, 12,000–600 BCE
2. “The School of Greece”: Greek Politics, Society, and Culture, 600–400 BCE
3. From Classical Greece to the Hellenistic World: Cultures in Contact, 400–30 BCE
4. Rome: Monarchy, Republic, and the Transition to Empire, 1000 BCE–14 CE
5. The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, 14–312 CE
6. The Late Roman Empire and the Consolidation of the Church, 312–476
7. Between Worlds: Late Antiquity and the Making of the Middle Ages, 476–900
8. Europe Revived, 900–1200
9. Consolidation and Crisis: The High Middle Ages, 1200–1400
10. Renaissance Europe: A World Transformed, 1400–1500
11. Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, 1500–1600
12. Things Fall Apart: A Continent in Crisis, 1600–1640
13. Ordering the World: New Forms of Authority and Knowledge, 1640–1680
14. From Court to City: Emerging Cultures, 1680–1740
15. Enlightenment: Challenging the Prevailing Order, 1740–1780
16. Revolution: Liberty and Terror, 1780–1799
17. The Age of Napoleon: Empire and Resistance, 1799–1820
18. Acceleration: The Age of Industry, 1820–1845
19. Growing Pains: Social and Political Upheavals, 1845–1880
20. Apogee: Imperial Rivalry and Global Power , 1880–1910
21. Things Blow Up: World War I and the Russian Revolution, 1910–1922
22. Ideologies: The Triumph of Political Extremes, 1922–1940
23. The Abyss: World War II and the Holocaust1940–1945
24.Postwar Recovery and Cold War Rivalry:1945–1973
25. Realignments: The End of the Soviet Order 1972–1999
26. Globalization: Integration and Inequality Since 1995
