| Description |
936 pages : illustrations, facsimile, maps, portraits ; 31 cm |
| Note |
Part of the illustrative matter is colored. |
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Each part being published separately by Newsweek, New York. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Ancient empires.--The fires of faith.--The expanding world of man.--Twilight of princes.--Age of optimism.--Our twentieth-century world. |
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Gift of the Nile / Leonard Cottrell -- The first law code / Jean Bottero -- The eruption of Santorin / M.S.F. Hood -- The Aryan invasion of India / Eric J. Sharpe -- Let my people go / James Parkes -- Ramses III defeats the sea peoples / Marcel Brion -- The prophet of the east / Trevor Ling -- Victorious Athens / Peter Green -- The death of Alexander the Great / George Woodcock -- Building the Great Wall of China / D. Howard Smith -- Hannibal challenges Rome / Gilbert Charles-Picard -- The slaves' revolt / Jack Lindsay -- The Battle of Actium / Michael Grant -- Arminius, liberator of Germany / Michael Grant -- Jesus of Nazareth, Savior God of a new religion / S.G.F. Brandon -- In this sign shalt thou conquer / Robert Browning -- Mission to Ireland / Nora Chadwick -- The scourge of God / Jean Favier -- The rule of St. Benedict / David Knowles -- The flight to Medina / S.M. Stern -- Japanese renaissance / Geoffrey Hindley -- A crown for Charlemagne / Friedrich Heer -- England for the English / Jack Lindsay -- The Caliph of Cordova's library / Stephen Clissold -- At the Lechfeld / Friedrich Heer -- Voyagers west / Renee Watkins -- William the Conqueror / Richard Winston -- Humiliation at Canossa / Peter Munz -- Abelard in Paris / Regine Pernoud -- The Palace of the Virgin / Yvan Christ -- The fall of Constantinople / Peter Munz -- |
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Agreement at Runnymede / J.C. Holt -- The Russian giant stirs / Constantine de Grunwald -- When east meets west / Ronald Latham -- The divine comedy / G.A. Holmes -- The black death / Philip Ziegler -- Wat Tyler "captures" London / W.I. Warren -- The maid of Orleans / Regine Pernoud -- The fall of Constantinople / John Julius Norwich -- Landfall at San Salvador / J.H. Parry -- Frescoes for Pope Julius / Jean Delumeau -- The conquest of Mexico / John Julius Norwich -- A Bible for the masses / Richard Friedenthal -- The earth dethroned / Colin Ronan -- Cutting the sultan's beard / Jean Descola -- A new empire for India / J. Burton-Page -- The invincible armada / Neville Williams -- A play for all seasons / Ivor Brown -- Revolt of the Netherlands / Charles Wilson -- The Pilgrims of Plymouth / Oliver Levy -- The rape of Magdeburg / Maurice Ashley -- "A cruel necessity" / Christopher Hibbert -- "L'etat c'est moi" / Phillippe Erlanger -- Cambridge's young genius / Colin Ronan -- Vienna under siege / V.J. Parry -- A window on the west / Constantine de Grunwald -- Twilight of the Sun King / Jacques Madaule -- The South Sea bubble / John Carswell -- An encyclopedia for the enlightenment / Richard Friedenthal -- Disaster strikes Lisbon / Suzanne Chantal -- Terra incognita / Roderick Cameron -- The Declaration of Independence / Arnold Whitridge -- Liberte, egalite, fraternite / Jacques Godechot -- |
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Beethoven's rededicated masterpiece / H.C. Robbins Landon -- "General" Lud's army / W.H. Chaloner -- Retreat from Russia / Jean Tulard -- Death of a poet / Peter Quennell -- The people's president / Francis Russell -- The age of steam / W.H. Chaloner -- A manifesto for the masses / Jean Jacques Chevallier -- Perry opens Japan / Richard Storry -- The emergence of Italy / Maurice Vaussard -- Mutiny in India / Taya Zinkin -- Ape or angel? / J.W. Burrow -- A nation divided / Robert Conquest -- A coronation at Versailles / Georges Roux -- Assassination of Alexander II / Ronald Hingley -- The birth of big business / Charlotte Erickson -- The riches of the rand / G.H. Le May -- "Next year, in Jerusalem" / Michael Bar Zohar -- Wings over Kitty Hawk / Charles Gibbs-Smith -- An automobile for the masses / Mervyn Kaufmann -- Assassination sparks the Great War / Brian Grogan -- "Peace, bread and land!" / Joel Carmichael -- The Black Shirts march on Rome / Christopher Hibbert -- Panic on Wall Street / George Bull -- The burning of the Reichstag / Paul Preston -- The Spanish Civil War / Brian Crozier -- The Battle of Britain / Nigel Nicolson -- Midway to victory / Stephen Sears -- Surrender at Stalingrad / Antony Brett-James -- Fireball over Hiroshima / David Divine -- Murder of the Mahatma / Louis Fischer -- Israeli independence / Michael Bar-Zohar -- Red victory in China / Jacques Marcuse -- De Gaulle returns to power / Edouard Sablier -- Pope John's Vatican Council / Michael Foss -- The Cuban Missile Crisis / Anthony Howard -- Man on the moon / Adrian Berry. |
| Subject |
World history.
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| ISBN |
0393054322 |
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9780393054323 |
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