A history of the modern world
/ R.R. Palmer, Joel Colton, Lloyd Kramer
- Tenth edition
- xxxii, 1259 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps
Includes index.
The rise of Europe The upheaval in Western Christendom Economic renewal and wars of religion, 1560-1648 The growing power of Western Europe, 1640-1715 The transformation of Eastern Europe The science view of the world The struggle for wealth and empire The age of enlightenment The French revolution Napoleonic Europe Industries, ideas, and the struggle for reform, 1815-1848 Revolutions and the reimposition of order, 1848-1870 The global consolidation of large nation-states, 1859-1871 European civilization, 1871-1914 : economy and politics European civilization, 1871-1914 : society and culture Europe's world supremacy, 1871-1914 The first world war The Russian revolution and the Soviet union Democracy, anti-imperialism, and the economic crisis after the first world war Democracy and dictatorship in the 1930s The second world war The cold war and reconstruction after the second world war Postcolonial nations in Asia and Latin American Empires into nations : Africa and the Middle East after the second world war Coexistence, confrontation, and the new global economy The international revolt against Soviet communism The changing modern world