J.M. Roberts's renowned History of the World is widely considered
the finest available one-volume survey of the major events,
developments, and personalities of the known past, offering
generations of readers a tour of the vast landscape of human
history.
In this new edition, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Odd Arne
Westad has completely revised this landmark work to bring the
narrative up to the twenty-first century, including the 9/11
attacks and the wars in the Middle East. Westad utilizes the
remarkable gains in scholarship in recent decades to enhance the
book's coverage of early human life and vastly improve the
treatment of India and China, Central Eurasia, early Islam, and the
late Byzantine Empire, as well as the history of science,
technology, and economics. The result is a truly remarkable work of
compression and synthesis, sweeping through thousands of years of
history, weaving the stories of empires, art, religion, economics,
and science into a lucid and engaging narrative. Ranging from the
early hominids and the emergence of Mesopotamian civilizations and
ancient Egypt, the book illuminates such topics as the Roman
Empire, the explosive arrival of Islam, the rise and fall of
samurai rule in Japan, the medieval kingdoms of sub-Saharan Africa,
the Mongol conquests, and the early modern expansion of Europe
across the globe; also covered are the struggle for American
independence, the French Revolution, the colonial empires, Japan's
startling modernization, and the World Wars.
With over 90 informative maps, The History of the World remains the
finest, most readable survey in print.
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