Modern History
Subtitle: From European Age to the New Global Era
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 12, 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780195339062
Subjects: General; Modern - General; History; History - General History; History: World
Table of contents: title: Part one : The making of the European age.; title: A new kind of society : early modern Europe; title: Authority and its challengers; title: The new world of great powers; title: Europe's assault on the world; title: World history's new shape; title: Part two : The age of revolution.; title: Ideas old and new; title: Long-term change; title: Political change in the age of revolution; title: Political change : a new Europe; title: Political change : the Anglo-Saxon world; title: Part three : The European empires.; title: The European world hegemony; title: European imperialism and imperial rule; title: Asia's response to a Europeanizing world; title: Strains in the system; title: The era of the First World War; title: Part four : Emerging powers.; title: A new Asia in the making; title: The Ottoman heritage and the Western Islamic lands; title: The Second World War; title: The shaping of a new world; title: Population, economy and the management of nature; title: Ideas, attitudes and authority; title: Part 5 : The new global era.; title: The politics of the new world; title: Inheritors of empire; title: Crumbling certainties; title: New challenges to the Cold War world order; title: Openings and closures; title: Epilogue : In the light of history