The Times history of the world. / edited byGeoffrey Barraclough.

Previously ed. published as: The Times atlas of world history. 1993.

The Age of European Dominance 1815 to 1914 - The spread of industrialization and the great European empires, the expansion of Russia and Japan, the making of the United States, the First World War

The Age of Global Civilization - From the Russian and Chinese revolutions to the Great Depression and the Second World War, superpower rivalry and the Cold War, the end of the empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union, The European superstate.

The Classical Civilizations of Eurasia 1000 BC to AD 500 - the civilization of Greece and Persia, India and China, the Roman empire, the spread of world religions, the nomadic invasions, the collapse of the Ancient World

The First Civilizations 3500 to 1000 BC - Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and the Aegean: the earliest cities and empires, migrations and invasions of writing, the development of trade

The World Divided Regions AD 500 to1500 - The rise and expansion of Islam and the formation of modern Europe, the early civilizations of America, the Mongol empire, the world on the eve of European expansion

The World of the Emerging West 1500 to 1815 - The European voyages of discovery, Mughal India, Ming China and the African empires, the development of the European economy, the American and French revolutions

Contents: Human Origins - from the hunters of the Stone Age to the spread of agriculture