
The History of the World
Oxford University Press
6th Edition
Published on 9. May 2013
Book
Hardback
1280 pages
978-0-19-993676-2 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1976, J.M. Robert's The New History of the World is a one of the landmark works of our era. It has been fully revised and updated to offer a substantial, authoritative, and truly global narrative of world history.
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Edition
6th ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Maps
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 58 mm
Weight
1548 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-993676-2 (9780199936762)
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Persons
J. M. Roberts CBE died in 2003. He was Warden at Merton College, Oxford University, until his retirement and is widely considered one of the leading historians of his era. He is also renowned as the author and presenter of the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West (1985). Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He has published fifteen books on modern and contemporary international history, among them The Global Cold War, which won the Bancroft Prize, and Decisive Encounters, a standard history of the Chinese civil war. He is general editor of the forthcoming three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War.