The making of the modern world
Subtitle: 1450 to the present
By: Diane O'Brien, Thomas O'Brien
Contributors: O'Brien, Thomas, author
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Pearson Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780558172862
Subjects: World history; Modern History
Description: "The text covers seven major themes: the pre modern world, the effects of epidemic disease on history, the rise of the great trading empire during early modern times, the establishment of western global domination during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and resistance to that domination, the causes and effects of modern revolutions, discussions of the United States and its role in the world during the twentieth century, and finally the process of globalization" -- Page x.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Chapter 1.; title: The world as it was. -- -- Chapter 2.; title: Disease and death. -- -- Chapter 3.; title: Trading empires. -- -- Chapter 4.; title: Colonization, domination and liberation. -- -- Chapter 5.; title: Revolutions. -- -- Chapter 6.; title: The American century and intelligence. -- -- Chapter 7.; title: The American century and globalization.