02472cam a2200349Ii 4500 31005 31005 BJBSDDR 20230410105138.0 ta 791205s1979 nyu b 001 0 eng d 0060142812 9780060142810 NLGGC 093391625 (OCoLC)ocm05763629 (OCoLC)5763629 LDO LDO spa spa D 20 T457h 1979 909 Thomas, Hugh, 1931-2017. A history of the world / Hugh Thomas 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1979. xix, 700 p. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. [644]-657. I. Foundations of history: Birth of the world -- Man as a hunter -- Coming of agriculture -- Early social bonds -- Early dealings between peoples -- History of the innovators -- II. Age of agriculture: Population and its increase -- Population, disease and medicine -- Population, war and battle -- Population, famine and food -- Agriculture techniques -- Agriculture, landlords and labourers -- Agriculture co-operation -- Agriculture, slaves and serfs -- Agriculture, cloths and clothes -- Early history of the soul -- Universal religion -- Law, government and liberty -- III. Intellectual transformation: Renaissance in Europe -- World re-opened -- Revival of commerce -- Slow journeys by land -- Revolution: printing -- City life -- Gunpowder wars -- People, medicine and food of the Renaissance -- IV. Industrial triumphs: Age of machines -- Steam and coal -- New Iron Age -- Age of steel -- Cotton as king -- Industrialisation and modernisation -- New sources of energy -- New communications -- Revolution in information -- Twentieth century mass communications -- Agricultural mechanisation -- Transformation of food -- Great medical improvements -- Population out of control -- Urban man -- Modern capitalism -- British contribution -- V. Political failures: Modern warfare -- Causes of war: monarchy and despotism -- The Great War -- Nazis' war -- Causes of war: racialism -- "Cold" war -- Causes of the "cold" war: class consciousness -- "Class" in power -- Causes of the "cold" war: notions of imperialism -- Democratic alternative -- Democracy: internal anxieties. World history. Histoire universelle. Historia universal 735 lcc BK Lspaulino 0 0 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 0 D 20 T457h 1979 00000045115 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 BK