413 pages : 30 cm

Foreword by Arnold Toynbee. Translated by Delano Ames and Geoffrey Sainsbury from Larousse Histoire universelle

"Translated by Delano Ames and Geoffrey Sainsbury from Histoire universelle Larousse."

Includes index

Man before history. -- The Ancient world. Eastern peoples and empires: The first historical peoples ; The early civilisations of the East ; The birth of new nations ; Conflict between East and West. -- The supremacy of the Eastern Mediterranean: The age of Pericles ; The age of discord ; The Macedonian epic ; The Hellenistic monarchies. -- The great empires of antiquity: The birth of imperialism ; The age of Caesar ; Pax Romana and Pax Sinica ; The decline of the Ancient world. -- The Middle Ages. The Barbarian invasions: The destruction of the Roman world ; The restoration of the stable empires ; The Arabs ; The end of invasions. -- The rise of Europe: The awakening ; The beginning of Europe's expansion ; Western Europe in the Thirteenth Century ; Fringe Europe and Islam in the Thirteenth Century. -- The Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries: Religious and political change in Western Europe ; On the fringe of Europe ; Mongol decline and Islam's revenge ; Pre-Columbian America

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