The World Transformed: Modern Civilization Since 1648 is an innovative text that combines key topics in world history and western civilization. Rather than approaching history and civilization as a purely chronological study, the book considers the differing approaches to life and politics that prevailed at various times and in various places. Beginning with the rise of the sovereign state, the 12 chapters explore intellectual transformation in 17th and 18th Century Europe, globalization and war in the early modern period, traditional East Asian states, Muslim empires, and the emergence of the nation-state. Students learn about political transformation and modernizing forces in the 19th Century, the modernization of warfare, and challenges to western modernity and the developing world. The second edition features a greater focus on world history and new material that addresses contemporary issues and modern health crises such as the Ebola epidemic, AIDS crisis, and coronavirus pandemic. The text includes a new index to assist students with referencing materials and a redesigned interior. Helping students better understand what it means to be a part of modern civilization and have a modern worldview, The World Transformed is well-suited to classes in world history, western or modern civilization, and the history of globalization.

In the dying Empire of Caedia a cynical soldier, Edo Fuentas, stumbles on a map to a distant continent, a place of untold riches, a place of dreams and eternal youth. Tallamun. On that distant continent Tamber Whitehair is waiting for him- the boy warrior who became an outcast shaman has had bloody visions of the end that will befall his people if they do not unite against this vicious new threat.

A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, written by experienced teachers who are also examiners. Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation. 1) Europe 1870-1991: a synoptic assessment 2) The Consolidation of Russian Conservatism 1855-1894 3) Germany under Bismarck 1871-1890 4) Wilhelmine Germany, 1888-1918 5) The Crisis of Russian Autocracy 1894-1914 6) The Causes and Course of the First World War 7) The Russian Revolution 1917-1924 8) The USSR under Stalin 1924-1941 9) Italy 1870-1943 10) Germany, 1918-1945 11) The Twenty Years Truce: International Relations, 1919-1939 12) The Second World War 13) Europe and the Cold War, 1945-1991 14) The Development of Western Europe, 1945-1991 Further Reading Index