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A History of the Modern World is a work initially published by the distinguished American historian at Princeton and Yale universities Robert Roswell Palmer in 1950. The work has since been extended by Joel Colton (from its second edition, 1956) [1] and Lloyd S. Kramer (from its ninth edition, 2001), [2] and currently counts 12 editions.
Students formerly studied all of prehistory and history, reviewing material from 8000 B.C.E. to the present day. In June 2015, the exam was changed to AP World History: Modern. [1] The new exam only includes material from 1250 C.E. onwards. Students first took the new course in the 2019–20 school year.
Eras cannot easily be defined. 1500 is an approximate starting period for the modern era because many major events caused the Western world to change around that time: from the fall of Constantinople (1453), Gutenberg's moveable type printing press (1450s), completion of the Reconquista (1492) and Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas ...
The Shifting Balance of World Forces 1898–1945 brought the chronology down to 1945. The chair of the editorial board was Sir George Norman Clark. [2] The New Cambridge Modern History has been described as "a comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the world from 1493 to 1945". [3]
An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online
The first discussions about creating The Cambridge Modern History took place in 1896. [2] [3]The original Cambridge Modern History was planned by Lord Acton, who during 1899 and 1900 gave much of his time to coordinating the project, intended to be a monument of objective, detailed, and collaborative scholarship. [4]
Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy: Judith Brown: February 1985: 2nd ed. (May 1, 1994) Barricades and Borders: Europe, 1800-1914: Robert Gildea: June 1, 1987: 2nd ed. (March 1996) 3rd ed. (March 6, 2003) Rebellions and Revolutions: China from the 1800s to the 1980s: Jack Gray: May 1, 1990: 1800s to 2000, 2nd ed. (April 3, 2003 ...
Johnson describes world history beginning with the aftermath of World War I, and ending with the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.. In the first part of the book, Johnson deals mainly with the shaping of the Soviet Union in the first decades after World War I, the collapse of democracy in Central Europe due to the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, the causes that led to World War ...