The Penguin History of the World by Roberts, J.M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author List of Maps Preface to the Sixth Edition The Penguin History of the World

Book One: BEFORE HISTORY

1: The Foundations 2: Homo Sapiens 3: The Possibility of Civilization

Book Two: CIVILIZATIONS

1: Early Civilized Life 2: Ancient Mesopotamia 3: Ancient Egypt 4: Intruders and Invaders 5: The Beginnings of Civilization in South Asia 6: Ancient China 7: The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past 8: Transformations

Book Three: THE CLASSICAL AGE

1: Remaking the Old World 2: The Greeks 3: The Hellenistic World 4: Rome 5: Christianity and the Western Transition 6: Classical India 7: Classical China

Book Four: THE AGE OF DIVERGING TRADITIONS

1: The Central Eurasian Crossroads 2: Islam and the Arab Empires 3: Byzantium and Its Sphere 4: The New Middle East and the Making of Europe 5: India 6: Imperial China 7: Japan 8: Worlds Apart 9: Europe: The Possibility of Change 10: New Limits, New Horizons

Book Five: THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN AGE

1: Qing China and Mughal India 2: A New Kind of Society: Early Modern Europe 3: Authority and Its Challengers in Europe 4: The New World of Great Powers 5: Europe’s Assault on the World 6: World History’s New Shape 7: Ideas Old and New

Book Six: THE GREAT ACCELERATION

1: Long-term Change 2: Political Change in an Age of Revolution 3: Political Change: A New Europe 4: Political Change: The Anglo-Saxon World 5: The European World Hegemony 6: Imperialism and Imperial Rule 7: Asian Metamorphoses

Book Seven: THE END OF THE EUROPEAN AGE

1: Strains in the System 2: The Era of the First World War 3: The Making of a New Asia 4: The Ottoman Heritage and the Western Islamic Lands 5: The Second World War 6: Decolonization and Cold War

Book Eight: OUR OWN TIME

1: Revolutions in Science and Perceptions 2: The Cold War World 3: Crises and Détente 4: The Closing of an Era 5: Openings and Closures 6: Whole World History

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