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TITLE: |
A history of world societies / John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler. |
AUTHOR: |
McKay, John P. |
PUBLISHED: |
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1984. |
DESCRIPTION: |
xxii, 1536, I-42 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
EDITION: |
2nd ed. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
NOTES: |
Origins. --Small kingdoms and mighty empires in the Near East. --Ancient Asia to CA A.D. 200. --The rise and growth of China to CA A.D. 200. --The legacy of Greece. --Hellenistic diffusion. --The rise of Rome. --The pax Romana. --The making of Europe. --The Islamic world, CA 600-1400. --Tradition and change in Asia. CA 320-1400. --Europe in the early and high middle ages. --Life in Christian Europe in the high middle ages. --The creativity and vitality of the middle ages. The crisis of the later middle ages. Africa and the Americas before European intrusion, CA 400-1500. --European society in the age of the renaissance and reformation. --The age of European expansion and religious wars. --Absolutism and constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589-1715). --Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740. --Toward a new world-view in the west. --The life of the people in Europe. --Africa, the Middle East, and India, ca 14090-1800. |
NOTES: |
Adult. |
NOTES: |
Compliments of the Eastern Oregon State College via Micronesian Program (12/19/97) |
SUBJECT: |
Civilization--History. |
SUBJECT: |
Society--History. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Hill, Bennett, D. |
ADDED ENTRY: |
Buckler, John. |
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