The human journey : a concise introduction to world history

Reilly, Kevin 1941- (Author).

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Physical Description: print
xxiv, 429 p. : ill., maps. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The long prologue : from 14 billion years ago -- The brave new world of city, state, and pasture : from 3000 BCE -- Eurasian classical cultures and empires : 600 BCE--200 CE -- The spread of new ways in Eurasia : 200 CE--1000 CE -- The making of an Afro-Eurasian network : 1000 CE--1450 CE -- Parallel worlds of inner Africa, the Americas, and Oceania : before 1450 -- Empires and encounters in the early modern era : 1450-1750 -- The roots of globalization : 1450-1750 -- Breaking out and the first modern societies : 1750-1900 -- The great disturbance by global empires : 1750-1940 -- The modern world and global realignments : the past century -- Beneath the surface of globalization and modernity : the past century.