| Description |
816 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 738-775) and index. |
| Contents |
Discrete worlds : some civilizations a thousand years ago -- The cockpit of orthodoxy : medieval eastern Christendom -- The tower of darkness : Islam in the first half of our millennium -- The world behind the wind : China and her neighbours from the Sung to the Ming -- A small promontory of Asia : Latin Christendom in the late Middle Ages -- Shy and retiring empires : expanding states in late medieval Africa and America -- The reach of conquest : imperialisms of the early modern period -- The touch of empire : colonization on early modern frontiers -- The embrace of evangelization : reform and expansion of early modern religions -- The tangle of trade : early modern long-range commerce -- The Atlantic chasm : fissures and fractures in the Atlantic world -- Voyages of bounty : the redistribution of world resources -- The chasm spanned : the survival and revival of Atlantic links -- The mirrors of imperialism : western reflections elsewhere in the world -- Graveyards of certainty : the decline of confidence and the erosion of empires -- The stumblers' alibis : domestic difficulties in the modern West -- The casebook of failure : fraying edges of the Atlantic -- Life after empires : decolonization and counter-colonization -- The maze of God : Islamic resurgence late in the millennium -- The watchers at dawn : modernization in Japan -- The giant awakening : modernization elsewhere in East Asia -- Riders of the surf : the white Pacific -- The revenge of the East : Oriental resilience and western culture. |
| Subject |
World history.
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| ISBN |
0684803615 |
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