Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Publication date. 1950. 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 ...
The Short Oxford History of the Modern World. The Short Oxford History of the Modern World series is a book series published by the Oxford University Press publishing house. Each book gives a comprehensive introduction to a particular period or theme in history. The general editor for the series was J.M. Roberts.
Late modern period. For a timeline of events from 1801 to 1900, see Timeline of the 19th century. For a timeline of events from 1901 to 1945, see Timeline of the 20th century. For 1914–1918, see Timeline of World War I. For 1939–1945 see Timeline of World War II.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began[1]) is a 2011 book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction. [2][3] Greenblatt tells the story of how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century papal emissary and ...
1940. OCLC. 226204766. The Encyclopedia of World History is a classic single-volume work detailing world history. The first through fifth editions were edited by William L. Langer. The Sixth Edition contained over 20,000 entries and was overseen by Peter N. Stearns. It was made available online until removed in 2009.
Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio - cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissance —in the Age of Reason of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century Enlightenment. Commentators variously consider the ...
History of Western civilization. The School of Athens, a famous fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, with Plato and Aristotle as the central figures in the scene. Western civilization traces its roots back to Europe and the Mediterranean. It is linked to ancient Greece, from which it was carried to Rome, and Medieval Western ...
The history of education extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included virtually every nation. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The earliest known formal school was developed in Egypt's Middle Kingdom under the direction of Kheti, treasurer to Mentuhotep II (2061-2010 BC).