Search Results - "History of the world"

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EMPIRES ascendant 400 BC-AD 200 : the Odyssey of Alexander the Great, the Grandeur of Imperial Rome, The Quest for power in the East, the Flowering of China

Published 1990

“...History of the world...”

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The HUMAN dawn : the pathe of evolution, the peopling of the earth , taming the wilderness, architects of new society

Published 1991

“...History of the world...”

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A SOARING spirit 600-400 BC : Persia at the Crest, the Hellenic unfolding, dawn of the Romans, Enlightenment in the East

Published 1988

“...History of the world...”

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VOYAGES of discovery AD 1400-1500 : the ocean adventurers, the Italian renaissance, the fall of constantinople, Bohemia's holy wars, the last great Hindu empire, lost empires of th...

Published 1989

“...History of the world...”

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LIGHT in the east AD 1000-1100 : China's enlightened empire, the advent of the Turks, the Norman conquests, the birth of Russia, India's elephant kings

Published 1989

“...History of the world...”

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EMPIRES besieged AD 200-600 : the Roman decline, renewal in the Middle East, Chinese kingdoms in turmoil, a vigorous new world

Published 1988

“...History of the world...”

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The DIVINE campaigns AS 1100-1200 : Europe's feudal order, the contest for the holy land, Islam comes to India, Southeast Asia's temple states

Published 1988

“...History of the world...”

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The MARCH of Islam AD 600-800 : the Prophet's quest, the changing face of Europe, empire-building in the east, the kingdom of the rising sun

Published 1988

“...History of the world...”

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The AGE of calamity AD 1300-1400 : the hundred years' war, the rise of the Ottomans, the fury of the steppes, China's brilliant dynasty, the African empires

Published 1989

“...History of the world...”

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POWERS of the crown AD 1600-1700 : Tokugawa Japan, China's Manchu overlords, the Great Shah of Persia, Civil War in England, the rise of the Dutch republic, newcomers to the new wo...

Published 1990

“...History of the world...”

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FURY of the Northmen AD 800-1000 : the viking onslaught, byzantium resurgent, the distinctive Japanese, Monument builders in Americas

Published 1989

“...History of the world...”

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The NUCLEAR age AD 1950-1990 : the cold war, Europe rises from the ashes, China: Mai and after, Africa's winds of change, the middle eastern powder Keg, Japan's empire of commerce

Published 1991

“...History of the world...”

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The COLONIAL overlords AD 1850-1900 : high noon of the Raj, Germany's iron chancellor, The scramble for Africa, The shaping of Australia, America divided

Published 1990

“...History of the world...”

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The PULSE of enterprise AD 1800-1850 : Bonaparte's empire, industrial Britain, liberation for Latin America, the opening of China, the struggle for Southern Africa

Published 1990

“...History of the world...”

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WINDS of revolution AD 1700-1800

Published 1990

“...History of the world...”

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The AGE of god-kings 3000-1500 BC : breakthrough at sumer, the way of the Pharaohs, the empire on the Aegean, stirrings in Asia

Published 1987

“...History of the world...”

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BARBARIAN tides 1500-600 BC : the aggressive empires, Egypt's golden age, the Greek crucible, the Mediterranean traders, Asian evolutions, Awakening in the Americas

Published 1987

“...History of the world...”

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The MONGOL conquests AD 1200-1300 : the Mongol hordes, rise of the shoguns, slave sultans of Egypt, the west's embattled empire, the Baltic crusades, Europe's new monarchies

Published 1989

“...History of the world...”

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The EUROPEAN emergence AD 1500-1600 : the Church divided, the conquest of the new world, Elizabeth's England, Russia's ruthless Tsar, the Ottoman Zenith, the Mughals ascendant

Published 1990

“...History of the world...”

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The WORLD in arms AD 1900-1925 : the great war, the Russian revolution, the Middle East transformed, Japan's new horizons, America comes of age

Published 1990

“...History of the world...”

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