The Penguin History of the World

by Roberts, J. M. (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780140154955
• ISBN10: 0140154957
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

First published in 1976 to great acclaim, this major one-volume history has been fully revised for this third edition and contains 90 maps. "A work of outstanding breadth of scholarhip and penetrating judgments. There is nothing better of its kind.--Sunday Telegraph

Table of Contents

List of Maps	viii
Preface	xi
Book One BEFORE HISTORY -- BEGINNINGS
Introduction	3	(2)
The Foundations	5	(15)
Homo Sapiens	20	(10)
The Possibility of Civilization	30	(11)
Book Two THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
Introduction	39	(2)
Early Civilized Life	41	(7)
Ancient Mesopotamia	48	(16)
Ancient Egypt	64	(21)
Intruders and Invaders: The Dark Ages of the Ancient Near East	85	(30)
A Complicating World	85	(6)
Early Civilized Life in the Aegean	91	(11)
The Near East in the Ages of Confusion	102	(13)
The Beginnings of Civilization in Eastern Asia	115	(28)
Ancient India	115	(13)
Ancient China	128	(15)
The Other Worlds of the Ancient Past	143	(10)
The End of the Old World	153	(8)
Book Three THE CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN
Introduction	159	(2)
The Roots of One World	161	(4)
The Greeks	165	(16)
Greek Civilization	181	(23)
The Hellenistic World	204	(15)
Rome	219	(17)
The Roman Achievement	236	(15)
Jewry and the Coming of Christianity	251	(15)
The Waning of the Classical West	266	(24)
The Elements of a Future	290	(17)
Book Four THE AGE OF DIVERGING TRADITIONS
Introduction	305	(2)
Islam and the Re-making of the Near East	307	(15)
The Arab Empires	322	(11)
Byzantium and Its Sphere	333	(26)
The Disputed Legacies of the Near East	359	(20)
The Making of Europe	379	(28)
India	407	(21)
Imperial China	428	(21)
Japan	449	(11)
Worlds Apart	460	(12)
Europe: the First Revolution	472	(34)
The Church	473	(12)
Principalities and Powers	485	(10)
Working and Living	495	(11)
New Limits, New Horizons	506	(23)
Europe Looks Outward	506	(12)
The European Mind	518	(9)
Book Five THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN AGE
Introduction	527	(2)
A New Kind of Society: Early Modern Europe	529	(20)
Authority and Its Challengers	549	(27)
The New World of Great Powers	576	(31)
Europe's Assault on the World	607	(26)
World History's New Shape	633	(16)
Ideas Old and New	649	(24)
Book Six THE GREAT ACCELERATION
Introduction	671	(2)
Long-Term Change	673	(20)
Political Change in an Age of Revolution	693	(24)
Political Change: A New Europe	717	(23)
Political Change: The Anglo-Saxon World	740	(20)
The European World Hegemony	760	(23)
European Imperialism and Imperial Rule	783	(17)
Asia's Response to a Europeanizing World	800	(31)
Book Seven THE END OF THE EUROPEANS' WORLD
Introduction	829	(2)
Strains in the System	831	(20)
The Era of the First World War	851	(31)
A New Asia in the Making	882	(16)
The Ottoman Heritage and the Western Islamic Lands	898	(12)
The Second World War	910	(22)
The Shaping of a New World	932	(25)
Book Eight THE LATEST AGE
Introduction	953	(4)
Perspectives	957	(40)
Population	957	(5)
Plenty	962	(10)
The Management of Nature	972	(14)
Ideas, Attitudes, Authority	986	(11)
The Politics of the New World	997	(46)
Cold War Beginnings	997	(6)
Asian Revolution	1003	(17)
Inheritors of Empire: The Middle East and Africa	1020	(14)
Latin America	1034	(9)
Crumbling Certainties	1043	(32)
Superpower Difficulties	1043	(12)
Two Europes	1055	(8)
New Challenges to the Cold War World Order	1063	(12)
The End of an Era	1075	(22)
Epilogue: In the Light of History	1097	(13)
Index	1110