Historia świata w ostatnim 1000-leciu!
Książka angielskiego profesora historii przedstawia nowatorskie spojrzenie na minione 1000 lat. Odejście od tradycyjnego postrzegania historii przez pryzmat Europy.
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Spis treści:
Prologue: Prunier's Revisited Pt. 1. The Springs of Initiative. 1. Discrete Worlds: Some Civilizations a Thousand Years Ago. 2. The Cockpit of Orthodoxy: Medieval Eastern Christendom. 3. The Tower of Darkness: Islam in the First Half of Our Millennium. 4. The World Behind the Wind: China and Her Neighbours from the Sung to the Ming. 5. A Small Promontory of Asia: Latin Christendom in the Late Middle Ages Pt. 2. The Springs Uncoiled. 6. Shy and Retiring Empires: Expanding States in Late Medieval Africa and America. 7. The Reach of Conquest: Imperialisms of the Early Modern Period. 8. The Touch of Empire: Colonization on Early Modern Frontiers. 9. The Embrace of Evangelization: Reform and Expansion of Early Modern Religions. 10. The Tangle of Trade: Early Modern Long-Range Commerce Pt. 3. The Atlantic Crisis. 11. The Atlantic Chasm: Fissures and Fractures in the Atlantic World. 12. Voyages of Bounty: The Redistribution of World Resources. 13. The Chasm Spanned: The Survival and Revival of Atlantic Links. 14. The Mirrors of Imperialism: Western Reflections Elsewhere in the World Pt. 4. The Twist of Initiative. 15. Graveyards of Certainty: The Decline of Confidence and the Erosion of Empires. 16. The Stumblers' Alibis: Domestic Difficulties in the Modern West. 17. The Casebook of Failure: Fraying Edges of the Atlantic. 18. Life After Empires: Decolonization and Counter-colonization. 19. The Maze of God: Islamic Resurgence Late in the Millennium Pt. 5. The Pacific Challenge. 20. The Watchers at Dawn: Modernization in Japan. 21. The Giant Awakening: Modernization Elsewhere in East Asia. 22. Riders of the Surf: The White Pacific. 23. The Revenge of the East: Oriental Resilience and Western Culture Epilogue: Alice's Unvisited.
