xxxii, 544 pages, [1] folded map : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm
The ancient Near East : the first civilizations --;The ancient Near East : peoples and empires --;The civilization of the Greeks --;The Hellenistic period --;The Roman Republic --;The Roman Empire --;Late antiquity and the emergence of the Medieval world --;European civilization in the early Middle Ages, 750-1000 --;The recovery and growth of European society in the high Middle Ages --;The rise of kingdoms and the growth of church power --;The later Middle Ages : crisis and disintegration in the fourteenth century --;Recovery and rebirth : the age of the Renaissance --;Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth century --;Europe and the world : new encounters, 1500-1800 --;State building and the search for order in the seventeenth century --;Toward a new heaven and a new earth : the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science.