New Edition, edited by Professor Richard Overy
The most important new edition of the most successful History of the World ever published, this volume includes:
- Human Origins: from the hunters of the Stone Age to the spread of agriculture
- The First Civilizations 3500 to 1000 BC: from Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China and the Aegean, covering the earliest cities and empires, migrations and invasions, the invention of writing and the development of trade
- Classical Civilizations of Eurasia 1000 BC to AD 500: from Greece and Persia, India and China, the Roman Empire, the spread of world religions, the nomadic invasions, the collapse of the ancient world
- The World of Divided Regions AD 500 to 1500: the rise and expansion of Islam and the formation of modern Europe, the early civilizations of America, the Mongol empire, the world on the eve of European expansion
-The World of the Emerging West 1500 to 1815: the European voyages of discovery, Mughal India, Ming China, the African empires, the development of the European economy, the American and French revolutions
- The Age of European Dominance 1815 - 1914: the spread of industrialization and the great European empires, the expansion of Russia and Japan, the making of the united States, the First World War
- The Age of Global Civilization: from the Russian and Chinese revolutions to the Great Depression and the Second World War, superpower rivalry and the Cold War, the end of empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the European superstate.
