Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, with Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin.
Volume One: Becoming human -- Rivers, cities, and first states, 3500-2000 BCE -- Nomads, territorial states, and microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE -- First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE -- Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE -- Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian world, 350-100 BCE -- Han dynasty China and imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE -- The rise of universalizing religions, 300-600 CE -- New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE -- Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500.
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Volume Two: Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Crisis and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500 -- Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450-1600 --Worlds entangled, 1600-1750 -- Cultures of splendor and power, 1500-1780 -- Reordering the world, 1750-1850 -- Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century -- Nations and empires, 1850-1914 -- An unsettled world, 1890-1914 -- Of masses and visions of the modern, 1910-1939 -- The Three-World Order, 1940-1975 -- Globalization, 1970-2000 -- 2001-The Present.