Cassell's chronology of world history
Subtitle: dates, events and ideas that made history
By: Hywel Williams.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 767
ISBN-13: 9780304357307
Subjects: Chronology, Historical; World history
Other titles: Chronology of world history
Description: "Cassell's Chronology of World History is a complete work of historical reference. It not only provides a year-by-year listing of the key events of human history from the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia to the globalized, post-millennial world of today, but also sets those events in a broad historical context, thereby offering an enhanced understanding not just of how but of why the world has changed and developed over six thousand years."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The ancient and medieval worlds 135,000 BP-1449; title: The roots of civilization: river-valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus and the Nile; title: India and Hinduism: the invention of a country; title: The classical world: Polis and republic in Greece and Rome; title: Bureaucracy and intelligence: the rise of China; title: The rise of Islam: an Arab revolution; title: Castle and cathedral: Europe's middle ages and the idea of a Christian civilization; title: The early modern world 1450-1799; title: Europe's drama: renaissance and reformation; title: Turkic power: the Ottoman challenge to the west; title: Colonial collisions: the European push into Asia, the Americas and Africa; title: The sense of the new: the enlightenment and the French Revolution; title: The nineteenth-century world 1800-1899; title: Nationalism and capitalism: the dynamic order of the 19th century; title: Hierarchies in collision: China and Japan in the 19th century; title: An American civilization: unity, power and race in the new world; title: The modern world 1900-2004; title: A continent divided: Europe from Armageddon to reconstruction, 1914-89; title: Old empires and new beginnings: decolonization and the fall of Europe; title: American hegemony: the victories, dilemmas and fears of a 21st-century colossus; title: Towards one world.