World History Handbook

The Handbook of World History learn macrohistory, the study of human history across boundaries. World historians examine developments that go beyond single states, cultures, and regions, including movements (of peoples, cultures, commodities, diseases, and ideas), cross-cultural contact, and exchange.

Table of Content

1. The Study of History and the Rise of Civilization2. Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations
2. Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations
3. Early Civilizations
4. Ancient Egypt
5. Early Chinese Dynasties
6. Early Civilizations in the Indian Subcontinent
7. Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World
8. The Roman World
9. The Byzantine Empire
10. The Rise and Spread of Islam
11. The Middle Ages in Europe
12. The Development of Russia
13. The Mongol Empire
14. Chinese Dynasties
15. African Civilizations
16. Civilizations in the Americas
17. The Renaissance
18. The Rise of Nation-States
19. The Age of Enlightenment
20. The Protestant Reformation
21. Enlightened Despots
22. The French Revolution
23. Napoleon
24. Post-Napoleonic Europe
25. The Industrial Revolution
26. Change in the Americas
27. European Imperialism in East Asia
28. The Scramble for Africa
29. World War I
30. The Interwar Period
31. World War II
32. The Cold War
33. Post-Colonial Africa
34. The Middle East after the Ottoman Empire
35. East Asia after World War II
36. South America and Latin America in the Cold War
37. The Long Decade (1989-2001)
38. The 21st Century

To study the big picture, they not only explore connections, but also often engage in comparative history. World history is concerned with both pre-modern and modern eras, and our world history cluster includes faculty with specializations from the ancient world through the twentieth century.

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