Worlds together, worlds apart : a history of the world from the beginnings of humankind to the present / Robert Tignor [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1-Becoming Human -- Chapter 2-Rivers, Cities, and First States, 4000-2000 BCE -- Chapter 3-Nomads, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE -- Chapter 4-First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-32 BCE -- Chapter 5-Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000-350 BCE -- Chapter 6-Shriking the Afro-Eurasia World, 350 BCE-250 CE -- Chapter 7-Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CD -- Chapter 8-The Rise of Universal Religions, 300-600 CE -- Chapter 9-New Empires and Common Cultures, 600-1000 CE -- Chapter 10-Becoming the "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Chapter 11-Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300s-1500s -- Chapter 12- Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450s-1600 -- Chapter 13-Worlds Entangled, 1600-1750 -- Chapter 14-Cultures of Splendor and Powers, 1500-1780 -- Chapter 15-Reording the World, 1750-1850 -- Chapter 16-Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 17-Nations and Empires, 1850-1914 -- Chapter 18-An Unsettled worlds, 1890-1914 -- Chapter 19-Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910-1975 -- Chapter 20-The Three World Order, 1940-1975 -- Chapter 21-Globalization, 1970-2000 -- Epilogue, 2001-Presents.