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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The second wave of bourgeois revolutions are those that occurred within the late modern period and were typically marked by being led from above by the haute bourgeoisie. [6] Greek Revolution (1821–1829) [40] July Revolution (1830) [41] February Revolution (1848) [42] [43] German revolutions of 1848–1849 [44] Revolutions of 1848 in the ...
The early modern period is a subdivision of the most recent of the three major periods of European history: antiquity, the Middle Ages and the modern period. The term "early modern" was first proposed by medieval historian Lynn Thorndike in his 1926 work A Short History of Civilization as a broader alternative to the Renaissance.
AP World History: Modern was designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different human societies. The course advances understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills.