Palmer, R. R.

A history of the modern world / R. R. Palmer, Joel Colton & Lloyd Kramer. - 10th edition. - Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2007. - xxxii, 1259 p. : ill. (some col.), maps. ; 26 cm.

Contents;

Chapter 1: The rise of Europe

Chapter 2: The Upheaval in western Christendom, 1300-1560

Chapter 3: Economic renewal and wars of religion, 1560-1648

Chapter 4: The growing power of western Europe, 1640-1715

Chapter 5: The transformation of eastern Europe, 1648-1740

Chapter 6: The scientific view of the world

Chapter 7: The struggle for wealth and empire

Chapter 8: The age of enlightenment

Chapter 9: The French revolution

Chapter 10: Napoleonic Europe

Chapter 11: Industries, ideas, and the struggle for reform, 1815-1848

Chapter 12: Revolutions and the Reimposition of order, 1815-1848

Chapter 13: The global consolidation of large nation-states, 1859-1871

Chapter 14: European civilization, 1871-1914: Economy and politics

Chapter 15: European civilization, 1871-1914: Society and culture

Chapter 16: Europe's world supremacy, 1871-1914

Chapter 17: The first world war

Chapter 18: The Russian revolution and the Soviet union

Chapter 19: Democracy, anti-imperialism, and the economic crisis after the first world war

Chapter 20: Democracy and dictatorship in the 1930s

Chapter 21: The second world war

Chapter 22: The cold war and reconstruction after the second world war

Chapter 23: Postcolonial nations in Asia and Latin America

Chapter 24: Empires into nations: Africa and the middle east after the second world war

Chapter 25: Coexistence, confrontation, and the new global economy

Chapter 26: The international revolt against Soviet communism

Chapter 27: The changing modern world



Bibliographical references : p. 1121-1218 . _ Index : p. 1221-1259.

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Modern History


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