history, modern

Illustrates personalities, issues, and international, scientific, cultural, and economic events of the 20th century.

Over 8,000 A-to-Z entries capture the people, places, events, and concepts that have shaped the past 90-plus years.

Describes the religious conflicts, travel and communication, homes, food and drink, clothing, celebrations, scientific advances, and other aspects of life in seventeenth-century Europe.

Describes the clothing, religion, housing, food and drink, work, and other aspects of life in sixteenth-century Europe.

Provides students and teachers with hundreds of ideas for term papers related to one hundred significant events in nineteenth-century world history and lists thousands of print and nonprint sources.

Examines the history of the nations who ruled overseas territories during the last half of the nineteenth century.

Covers world events including Bonaparte's Empire, industrial Britain, liberation for Latin America, and the opening of China and Southern Africa in the 19th century.

Chronicles the era of the Enlightenment and the spread of invention and revolution in Europe, the Pacific, and North America.

Discusses different ruling groups throughout the world including the shoguns of Japan, the absolute monarchies in France and England, the rise of the middle class and republicanism, and the settlement of the New World.

Discusses events in modern history including the Cold War, the Middle East, and other developments since 1945.