Millennium
Subtitle: a history of the last thousand years
By: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 816
ISBN-13: 9780684803616
Subjects: World history; Weltgeschichte 1000-1995; Histoire universelle
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 738-775) and index.
Table of contents: title: Discrete worlds : some civilizations a thousand years ago; title: The cockpit of orthodoxy : medieval eastern Christendom; title: The tower of darkness : Islam in the first half of our millennium; title: The world behind the wind : China and her neighbours from the Sung to the Ming; title: A small promontory of Asia : Latin Christendom in the late Middle Ages; title: Shy and retiring empires : expanding states in late medieval Africa and America; title: The reach of conquest : imperialisms of the early modern period; title: The touch of empire : colonization on early modern frontiers; title: The embrace of evangelization : reform and expansion of early modern religions; title: The tangle of trade : early modern long-range commerce; title: The Atlantic chasm : fissures and fractures in the Atlantic world; title: Voyages of bounty : the redistribution of world resources; title: The chasm spanned : the survival and revival of Atlantic links; title: The mirrors of imperialism : western reflections elsewhere in the world; title: Graveyards of certainty : the decline of confidence and the erosion of empires; title: The stumblers' alibis : domestic difficulties in the modern West; title: The casebook of failure : fraying edges of the Atlantic; title: Life after empires : decolonization and counter-colonization; title: The maze of God : Islamic resurgence late in the millennium; title: The watchers at dawn : modernization in Japan; title: The giant awakening : modernization elsewhere in East Asia; title: Riders of the surf : the white Pacific; title: The revenge of the East : Oriental resilience and western culture.