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Index
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Maps
Preface to Fifth Edition
The New Penguin History of The World
BOOK ONE
1 The Foundations
2 Homo Sapiens
3 The Possibility of Civilization
BOOK TWO
1 Early Civilized Life
2 Ancient Mesopotamia
3 Ancient Egypt
4 Intruders and Invaders: The Dark Ages of the Ancient Near East
5 The Beginnings of Civilization in Eastern Asia
6 The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past
7 The End of the Old World
BOOK THREE
1 The Roots of One World
2 The Greeks
3 Greek Civilization
4 The Hellenistic World
5 Rome
6 The Roman Achievement
7 Jewry and the Coming of Christianity
8 The Waning of the Classical West
9 The Elements of a Future
BOOK FOUR
1 Islam and the Remaking of the Near East
2 The Arab Empires
3 Byzantium and Its Sphere
4 The Disputed Legacies of the Near East
5 The Making of Europe
6 India
7 Imperial China
8 Japan
9 Worlds Apart
10 Europe: the First Revolution
11 New Limits, New Horizons
BOOK FIVE
1 A New Kind of Society: Early Modern Europe
2 Authority and Its Challengers
3 The New World of Great Powers
4 Europe’s Assault on the World
5 World History’s New Shape
6 Ideas Old and New
BOOK SIX
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 European Imperialism and Imperial Rule
7 Asia’s Response to a Europeanizing World
BOOK SEVEN
1 Strains in the System
2 The Era of the First World War
3 A New Asia in the Making
4 The Ottoman Heritage and the Western Islamic Lands
5 The Second World War
6 The Shaping of a New World
BOOK EIGHT
1 Perspectives
2 A New World Order
3 Crumbling Certainties
4 The Closing of an Era
5 Openings and Closures
Index
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