A Global History: From Prehistory to the 21st Century (7th Edition)

By applying the brand new historical opinions and methods, the author regards the whole world as an indivisible organic unity, to inspect the generation and development of human civilization across the whole world from the global perspective rather than just a country or a region, with the focus on the several history movements, historical events and their mutual relations and influences that play significant role to the human historical process, which tries to reflect the confrontation of part and the whole as well as their mutual function. Once came, this book enjoys a high praise from the famous historians Arnold Joseph Toynbee and Geoffrey Barraclough, which is translated into several languages, with wide spread and great influence. It introduces hundreds of thousands of years' history at one stretch from human being origin to the multi-polar world period in the 21st century. Besides politics and economics, it also involves military, culture, education, religion, scientific technol