bk. 1. The first civilizations and the classical legacy -- bk. 2. Medieval Europe and the world beyond -- bk. 3. The European Renaissance, the Reformation and global encounter -- bk. 4. Faith, reason, and power in the early modern world -- bk. 5. Romanticism, realism, and the nineteenth-century world -- bk. 6. Modernism, globalism, and the information age