The ancient and medieval worlds 135,000 BP-1449
The roots of civilization: river-valley civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus and the Nile
India and Hinduism: the invention of a country
The classical world: Polis and republic in Greece and Rome
Bureaucracy and intelligence: the rise of China
The rise of Islam: an Arab revolution
Castle and cathedral: Europe's middle ages and the idea of a Christian civilization
The early modern world 1450-1799
Europe's drama: renaissance and reformation
Turkic power: the Ottoman challenge to the west
Colonial collisions: the European push into Asia, the Americas and Africa
The sense of the new: the enlightenment and the French Revolution
The nineteenth-century world 1800-1899
Nationalism and capitalism: the dynamic order of the 19th century
Hierarchies in collision: China and Japan in the 19th century
An American civilization: unity, power and race in the new world
The modern world 1900-2004
A continent divided: Europe from Armageddon to reconstruction, 1914-89
Old empires and new beginnings: decolonization and the fall of Europe
American hegemony: the victories, dilemmas and fears of a 21st-century colossus
