World History the Easy Way: A.D. 1500 to the Present

Frazee

Barrons Educational Series Incorporated, 1997 - History - 592 pages

Volume II opens with major world events between 1500 and 1789, and considers the development of shipbuilding that sent European explorers around the world. Following topics include the Ottoman Empire, Mughal India, Manchu China, Spanish conquests in the Americas, European world colonialism, the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, British imperial expansion, the revolutions in the Americas, the United States and Canada as world powers, World War I and II, postwar Europe, the end of European colonialism, the Cold War, modern China, and events affecting Pacific nations.

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Offers an excellent overview of world history, includes in depth discourse on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Great for brushing up on your facts or studying for a class. I'm a ...

About the author

Charles A. Frazee is professor of churchhistory at Episcopal Theological School atClaremont.

Bibliographic information

• Title: World History the Easy Way: A.D. 1500 to the Present; Barron's E-Z; Barron's Easy Way Series; Easy Way Series; Volume 2 of World History :volume Two, Charles A. Frazee; Volume 2 of World History the Easy Way, Charles A. Frazee; Volume 2 of World History, Charles A. Frazee
• Author: Frazee
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Incorporated, 1997
• ISBN: 0812097661, 9780812097665
• Length: 592 pages
• Subjects: History / Medieval; History / Modern / General; History / World