Encyclopedia of World History, 7-Volume Set

Facts On File's seven-volume Encyclopedia of World History is a truly groundbreaking work and one of the first to offer a balanced presentation of human history for a global perspective on the past. A team of distinguished world history academics has brought together scores of specialists in writing signed entries based on the latest scholarship.

Key Features That Enhance the Set's Reference Value

* Thematic essays that help students make comparisons and connections across regions and time periods
* Primary source documents, carefully chosen to be representative of the six world eras
* Informative, cross-referenced entries
* A chronology in every volume that helps students place events in context
* More than 600 illustrations, including a 32-page insert of full-color maps in each volume designed to convey the importance of geography in world history
* Further reading sections that encourage additional research
* Individual volume indexes
* A comprehensive set index.

The Set Is Arranged in Six Chronological Eras

* Volume I: The Ancient World: Prehistoric Eras to 600 CE
* Volume II: The Expanding World: 600 CE to 1450
* Volume III: The First Global Age: 1450 to 1750
* Volume IV: Age of Revolution and Empire: 1750 to 1900
* Volume V: Crisis and Achievement: 1900 to 1950
* Volume VI: The Contemporary World: 1950 to the Present
* Volume VII: Primary Documents and Master Index.