modern history

Describes and evaluates the global impact of ten of the eighteenth century's most important events.

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.

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.

Each chapter tells the story of a real event giving background information that leads up to the point of discovery, where four alternative endings are presented, and the actual results are revealed.

Examines the political, economic, social, and technological developmentsin the world during the mid 1970s to mid 1980s including punk rock and Star Wars, the end of the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan, Iran-Iraq War and the Iran hostage crisis, and the end of the Cold War.