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