For decades William L. Langer's best-selling ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD HISTORY was the indispensable, authoritative guide to all of human history. Now, under the direction of a distinguished new editor, comes an updated and dramatically improved version for a new generation, the only encyclopedia of its kind with a bound-in, searchable compact disc of the complete text. The result is a wholly accessible, absorbing canvas of world history that no student, scholar, or amateur historian should be without. Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty prominent historians have combined their expertise over the past ten years to perfect this comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000. With a unique format that has won it generations of fans, the ENCYCLOPEDIA continues to feature chronological entries grouped by geographic region, allowing readers to get an in-depth view of distinct events along with a virtual time line of human history. But this new edition is much more than an expansion of a classic; it reflects important recent changes in historical trends and historical thinking. In addition to showcasing traditional facts of national leadership and state power, the Encyclopedia embraces social and cultural developments, non-European history, women's history, religion, health, economics, technology, and other vital but less often reported aspects of the human drama. Here is a chronicle not only of major political events but of ordinary people, covering shifts in the relationships between men and women, developments in leisure, and demographic currents. And for all periods there are summaries of global developments that cannot be captured in national or regional frameworks. As editor Stearns notes in his preface, "The world we know historically has greatly changed. The revisions that animate this edition celebrate this change, benefiting from the labors of countless venturesome scholars over the past several decades." A masterwork whose roots date back to the nineteenth century, this exciting volume belongs at the elbow of every history lover and of anyone who has ever been curious about our constantly changing, remarkably diverse human story.
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| Istanbul - Pàgina 529The governor and other senior officials were appointed from Istanbul and were to be advised by councils composed of elected and appointed members who ... |
| Hanoi - Pàgina 1039 |
| Baghdad - Pàgina 116 |
Més informació | Beijing - Pàgina 561Proposals to legalize the importation of opium and concern over the silver drain to pay for it led to heated debates in Beijing with those who wished ... |
| Guangzhou - Pàgina 563Claiming that the vessel Arrow was registered in Hong Kong and had been illegally searched by Qing officials, the British moved and seized Guangzhou ... |
| Nanjing - Pàgina 778A National People's Convention of the GMD in Nanjing adopted a provisional constitution that confirmed the separation of the five branches within the ... |
| Tripoli - Pàgina 551A branch of the Banco di Roma opened in Tripoli as part of the Italian attempt at a peaceful economic invasion of Libya through increased trade. ... |
| Moscow - Pàgina 271 |
| Athens - Pàgina 64Darius I sent Mardonius to punish Athens and Eretria for aiding the Ionian cities in their revolt. The Persian fleet was destroyed in a storm while ... |
| Damascus - Pàgina 760The General Syrian Congress in Damascus passed a resolution affirming its opposition to a French mandate in Syria. ... |
| Kyoto - Pàgina 160The outstanding feature of this era was the clear division between the now powerless civil and religious government of the imperial court at Kyoto and ... |
| Kiev - Pàgina 224The period following the death of Yaroslav the Great was one of disintegration and decline. Technically the primacy of Kiev continued. |
| Milan - Pàgina 602In December Napoleon replied with his Milan decree, which declared that ships lost their neutral character if they obeyed the British order in council ... |
| Rome - Pàgina 173Milan resumed her greatness and almost equaled Rome. These developments prepared the way for the assertion of Italian town independence against Roman ... |
| Naples - Pàgina 253The Sicilians expelled the French, offered the crown to Peter III of Aragon, and hostilities between the Angevins in Naples and Aragonese on the ... |
| Rio de Janeiro - Pàgina 278 |
| Luoyang - Pàgina 148which became the largest city in the world and attracted visitors from many different lands, and an eastern capital was set up at Luoyang. ... |
| Belgrade - Pàgina 300The Ottoman Turkish sultan Suleyman the Magnificent conquered Belgrade, gateway to Hungary and Habsburg lands along the Danube. ... |
| Luxembourg - Pàgina 807under orders from Hitler, dislocated Allied preparations by a sudden drive against thinly held American lines in the Belgian and Luxembourg sector. ... |
| Algiers - Pàgina 366They did not occupy Algiers but constructed a fort called the Penon on an islet overlooking the harbor. They remained isolated in their coastal ... |
| Venice - Pàgina 216THE RISE OF VENICE Fugitives from the Huns found refuge among the fishing villages of the lagoons; the permanent establishment of Venice seems to date ... |
| Jerusalem - Pàgina 233 |
| Cairo - Pàgina 525 |
| Seoul - Pàgina 567An attack by this group of Koreans on the Japanese legation in Seoul led to intervention by the Chinese. The following day they found and murdered the ... |
| Panama - Pàgina 744 |
| Tunis - Pàgina 366The provincial administrations set up in Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis soon developed an autonomous character, with local regimes run largely by the ... |
| Kabul - Pàgina 363The province of Herat remained with Iran, while Kabul was administered by the Mughals. The contested province of Qandahar moved between the two ... |
| Warsaw - Pàgina 438 |
| Vienna - Pàgina 703By this drastic action Dollfuss and the Christian Socialists permanently antagonized the working classes of Vienna and deprived themselves of what ... |
| Paris - Pàgina 807The citizens of Paris rioted against German forces of occupation as Allied armed divisions crossed the Seine and approached the capital. ... |
| Berlin - Pàgina 472Andrassy issued invitations to a congress of the powers to meet at Berlin. Britain and Russia disputed what subjects might be discussed at the ... |
| Prague - Pàgina 310Ferdinand and his successors governed from Vienna or Prague and with little reference to the traditional rights of the Hungarian nobility. ... |
| Guatemala - Pàgina 635Arce deposed the Liberals and named Conservative Mariano Aycinena as the new governor of Guatemala, winning Conservative support. ... |
| Mexico City - Pàgina 747 |
| Madrid - Pàgina 438 |
| Zanzibar - Pàgina 593important town on the southern Swahili coast for the export of ivory and slaves, traded by Yao and Bisa from the interior and shipped to Zanzibar. ... |
| Syracuse - Pàgina 64Gelon made Syracuse into the leading city of Sicily by transporting the populations of conquered neighbors there. ... |
| Tabriz - Pàgina 360Shah Isma'il brought the famous Timurid painter Bihzad from Herat to Tabriz and appointed him director of the royal library. ... |
| Delhi - Pàgina 370Shah checked the Maratha expansion northward, defeated imperial troops, and withdrew, retaining possession of Afghanistan and the wealth of Delhi. ... |
| Herat - Pàgina 360Shah Isma'il brought the famous Timurid painter Bihzad from Herat to Tabriz and appointed him director of the royal library. ... |
| Barcelona - Pàgina 692 |
| London - Pàgina 530Abdulaziz attended the World Exhibition in Paris and then visited the British royal family in London. He was the first sultan to travel to the West. ... |
| Genoa - Pàgina 435Suvorov and Melas then defeated French forces under Joubert at Novi as the latter attempted to advance from Genoa. ... |
| Canterbury - Pàgina 180A Greek, as archbishop of Canterbury he introduced a Roman parochial system and a centralized episcopal (diocesan I organization that became the model ... |
| Tianjin - Pàgina 775China secured the termination of German and Austrian extraterritoriality and Boxer indemnity payments, and the return of their concessions in Tianjin ... |
| Koryo - Pàgina 157The two Mongol attempts to conquer Japan were both launched with the forced assistance of Koryo, and both failed. ... |
| Qandahar - Pàgina 362Capture of the Afghan city of Qandahar from the Mughals, who had seized it some ten years earlier. From this time, the city remained in the Iranian ... |
| Tehran - Pàgina 536 |
| Shanghai - Pàgina 1024As the Cultural Revolution reached high tide, a workers' movement in Shanghai toppled the party leadership and established the Shanghai People's ... |
| Quebec - Pàgina 618Lord Durham arrived at Quebec as governor in chief of all the British North American provinces. His lenient treatment of the rebels led to disavowal ... |
| Lisbon - Pàgina 626Brazilian deputies in Lisbon rejected attempts by the Cortes to reduce Brazil to colonial status. The king decided to return and leave his son, Pedro, ... |
| Basel - Pàgina 305Bern and Basel accepted the Reformation and were followed by three others. Fribourg and Solothurn remained Catholic and sided with the original five ... |
| Azov - Pàgina 357The Russians agreed to return all the conquered lands and evacuate Azov. The collusion with Russia by the native princes of Moldavia and Wallachia ... |
| Santo Domingo - Pàgina 287Expedition of Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies, sack of Santo Domingo and Cartagena,- rescue of the Virginia colony. ... |
| Copenhagen - Pàgina 438 |
| Tokyo - Pàgina 1033 |
| Toungoo - Pàgina 1008 |
| Zurich - Pàgina 500The Swiss Socialist Party was founded in Zurich as a result of the collapse of the Second International. The socialist platform demanded increased ... |
| Sao Paulo - Pàgina 635The city of Sao Paulo emerged as an industrial center. Workers there started to organize and develop a labor press under the influence of immigrant ... |
| Bogota - Pàgina 405The rebels marched to Bogota and negotiated a treaty that rescinded the new fiscal program and gave Creoles greater access to office. ... |
| Bombay - Pàgina 553 |
| Hong Kong - Pàgina 563Claiming that the vessel Arrow was registered in Hong Kong and had been illegally searched by Qing officials, the British moved and seized Guangzhou ... |
| Valencia - Pàgina 438 |
| Singapore - Pàgina 1017 |
| Hangzhou - Pàgina 777General Labor Union and labor leaders called for a general strike to support the surging National Revolutionary Army, which had just taken Hangzhou. ... |
| Leon - Pàgina 179the independence of Leon and Navarre was recognized and the Muslim frontier withdrawn to the Ebro; on the other hand, Leon and Navarre recognized the ... |
| Dublin - Pàgina 489Catholic Defense Association of Great Britain and Ireland was founded at a meeting in Dublin. The association expressed Catholic opposition to the ... |
| Florence - Pàgina 694Communist and Fascist riots at Florence, inaugurating a period of repeated clashes that ultimately approximated civil war between the two factions. ... |
| New York - Pàgina 414The Massachusetts general court sent an invitation to colonial assemblies to send delegates to meet in New York and consider the Stamp Act. ... |
| Kaifeng - Pàgina 149When they aided the establishment of the Later Jin in Kaifeng, the fin paid the Khitan tribute, though when the second lin emperor refused to do so, ... |
| Apulia - Pàgina 213 |
| Quito - Pàgina 633The Congress voted to move the capital from Quito to Riobamba, causing a regional split. A triumvirate headed by Garcia Moreno took control of part of ... |
| La Paz - Pàgina 405Andres Tupac Amaru joined Tupac Katari in a renewed siege of La Paz, but promises of amnesty and internal dissension gradually dispersed their ... |
| Bamako - Pàgina 589The French occupation of Bamako signaled their determination to control the upper Niger valley. French conquest was. |
| Montreal - Pàgina 619Four leading English newspapers in Montreal pushed for annexation to the US in the wake of the impact of British free trade legislation on the ... |
| Karaman - Pàgina 120The principality of Karaman in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains was founded by the Turkoman leader Karaman ibn Musa. ... |
| Ardabil - Pàgina 120Under the leadership of his descendants the order grew, expanding its headquarters in Ardabil and acquiring extensive property. |
| Reims - Pàgina 198 |
| Cordoba - Pàgina 180The latter obliged Hisham and proclaimed him his heir, whereupon a revolt took place in Cordoba under the leadership of Muhammad, a member of the ... |
| Ankara - Pàgina 125The decade following the defeat at Ankara was a period of power struggles for the Ottomans, with a real danger of dismemberment and collapse facing ... |
| Izmir - Pàgina 356Sevi, an ascetic Jew from Izmir who had been propagating his mystical ideas among Jewish communities in the region for some years, was proclaimed the ... |
| Caracas - Pàgina 624 |
| Memphis - Pàgina 32with the satrap (governor) at Memphis. The Egyptians revolted in the last years of Darius, and the uprising was not suppressed until the reign of ... |
| Lagos - Pàgina 591After several decades of resisting new territorial acquisitions in West Africa, Britain proclaimed Lagos a Crown colony in order to control the key ... |
| Lima - Pàgina 624 |
| Livonia - Pàgina 210Union with the Livonian Brothers of the Sword was followed by notable progress in Livonia and plans for the conversion of the Russians from the Greek ... |
| Qingdao - Pàgina 780 |
| Cologne - Pàgina 316The electors of Bavaria and Cologne, who had been placed under the ban of the empire, were reinstated in their lands and dignities. ... |
| Nagasaki - Pàgina 569Commodore James Glynn succeeded in liberating US castaways held at Nagasaki. |
| Sao Tome - Pàgina 146Exclusively using African slaves to cultivate sugar, Sao Tome became the harbinger of the slave system of the Atlantic economy. ... |
| Budapest - Pàgina 803 |
| Adana - Pàgina 533Alongside some acts of violence in the capital, the insurrection provoked the massacre of thousands of Armenians in Adana (in several days of attacks ... |
| Cartagena - Pàgina 692 |
| Bucharest - Pàgina 901 |
| Eretria - Pàgina 64Darius I sent Mardonius to punish Athens and Eretria for aiding the Ionian cities in their revolt. The Persian fleet was destroyed in a storm while ... |
| Marseilles - Pàgina 807In another amphibious operation the Allies effected successful landings on the French Mediterranean coast between Marseilles and Nice. ... |
| Buenos Aires - Pàgina 626ARGENTINA After independence, the city of Buenos Aires was dominant because of its commercial role, but its place in the broader political system was ... |
| Santiago - Pàgina 689It began in May with military unrest that became more general social unrest by the end of July with strikes in Valencia, Bilboa, and Santiago. ... |
| Sydney - Pàgina 579 |
| Montevideo - Pàgina 622The British agreed to retreat from the Rio de la Plata and Montevideo. Urban militia allowed the creole elite to control plebeian mobilization through ... |
MenysReferències a aquest llibrePassatges popularsPàgina 288 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England... Pàgina 1 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. Més informacióPàgina 261 - Trier, the count palatine of the Rhine, the duke of Saxony, the margrave of Brandenburg, and the king of Bohemia. Pàgina 195 - No freeman shall be arrested or detained in prison, or deprived of his freehold, or outlawed, or banished, or in any way molested, and we will not set forth against him, nor send against him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land. Pàgina 310 - The radius vector drawn from the sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. Pàgina 310 - The squares of the periods of revolution of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. Pàgina 312 - Newton's law of gravitation states that any two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them... Pàgina 287 - James' expenditure, he had recourse to impositions without parliamentary grant, which Mary and Elizabeth had used to a small extent. Trial of Bates for refusing to pay an imposition on currants. The court of exchequer decided in favor of the king. Pàgina 304 - Pilseri), an independent position for himself, whence he could, with the aid of the two north German electors, liberate the emperor from the control of the Spanish party, and, if necessary, compel him to make peace and reorganize the internal affairs of the empire (on the basis of a religious peace? MenysContinguts | 1 | | | | 7 | | | | 189 | | | | 260 | | | | 301 | | | | 345 | | | | 429 | | | 7 | 998 | | |
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