modern history

Describes and evaluates the global impact of ten of the seventeenth-century's most important events, including the scientific revolution, the founding of Jamestown, and the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.

Presents a collection of essays and speeches by prominent figures such as Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and others that chronicle the events and issues connected to the Cold War.

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.