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History and is currently editing an Encyclopedia of Modern World History He has written several thematic studies in world history, including The Industrial Revolution in World History (2nd ed , Westview, 1998), Gender in World History (2nd ed , Routledge, 2006), Consumerism in World History (2nd ed ,
‘basis’ of history is an essential, but not sufficient, precondition for understanding everything else This book, then, attempts to provide an introductory outline to world history, and no more than that But it is an outline which, I hope, will help some people come to terms with both the past and the present
Connecting with World History Students: Why We Wrote This Book xxi About the Authors xxix Making Sense of World History: An Introductory Overview for Students xxxi I An Age of Regional Connections, to 1650 c e Era One Emergence and Expansion of Regional Societies, to 300 c e 1 The Emergence of Human Societies, to 3000 b c e 1
Connecting with World History Students: Why We Wrote This Book xix About the Authors xxv Making Sense of World History: An Introductory Overview for Students xxvii 19 Global Exploration and Global Empires, 1400–1700 379 19 1 The Iberian Impulse 380 19 1 1 Portuguese Overseas Exploration 381 19 1 2 Columbus’s Enterprise of the Indies 383
Chapter 1 The world of capital 379 Chapter 2 World war and world revolution 405 Chapter 3 Europe in turmoil 430 Chapter 4 Revolt in the colonial world 449 Chapter 5 The ‘Golden Twenties’ 463 Chapter 6 The great slump 469 Chapter 7 Strangled hope: 1934-36 491 Chapter 8 Midnight in the century 510 Chapter 9 The Cold War 543