THE TIMES
HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Richard Overy
TIMES BOOKS
Table of Contents
ONE HUMAN ORIGINS AND EARLY CULTURES
THREE THE CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS OF EURASIA
FOUR THE WORLD OF DIVIDED REGIONS
FIVE THE WORLD OF THE EMERGING WEST
SIX THE AGE OF EUROPEAN DOMINANCE
SEVEN THE AGE OF GLOBAL CIVILIZATION
CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS I N WORLD HISTORY
EDITORS:
Geoffrey Barraclough
Late President, Historical
Association
Chichele Professor of Modern
History
University of Oxford
Norman Stone
Professor of History
Bilkent University, Ankara
Geoffrey Parker FBA
Andreas Dorpalen
Distinguished Professor of History
The Ohio State University
Richard Overy
Professor in History
University of Exeter
CONSULTANTS:
David Abulafia
Daud Ali
F R Allchin
R W Van Alstyne
David Arnold
John Barber
James R Barrett
Iris Barry
Peter Bauer
Christopher Bayly
W G Beasley
Ralph Bennett
Amira K Bennison
A D H Bivar
Brian Bond
Hugh Borton
Hugh Bowden
David Brading
Warwick Bray
John Breen
Carl Bridge
F R Bridge
Michael G Broers
Hugh Brogan
Tom Brooking
Ian Brown
Anthony Bryer
Muriel E Chamberlain
David G Chandler
John Cannon
Eric Christiansen
Colin Coates
Peter Coates
Frank Cogliano
Irene Collins
Michael Crawford
James Cronin
Douglas Dakin
John Darwin
Ralph Davis
Kent Deng
Robin Dunbar
I E S Edwards
Robert Evans
John Ferguson
Felipe Fernándo-Armesto
Stefan Fisch
David H Fischer
John R Fisher
Kate Fleet
Michael Flinn
Timothy Fox
Alan Frost
Robert I Frost
Clive Gamble
W J Gardner
Carol Geldart
John Gillingham
Ian Glover
Martin Goodman
Graham Gould
D G E Hall
Norman Hammond
John D Hargreaves
Tim Harper
David R Harris
Jonathan Haslam
Ragnhild Hatton
M Havinden
Harry Hearder
W O Henderson
Colin J Heywood
Sinclair Hood
Albert Hourani
Henry Hurst
Jonathan Israel
Edward James
Nicholas James
Richard H Jones
Ulrich Kemper
Hugh Kennedy
David Killingray
George Lane
Mark H Leff
Karl