The most comprehensive account yet of the human past from prehistory to the present.

Part I. Historiography, Method, and Themes; Part II. The Palaeolithic and the Beginnings of Human History; Part I. Early Cities as Arenas of Performance; Part II. Early Cities and Information Technologies; Part III. Early Urban Landscapes; Part IV. Early Cities and the Distribution of Power; Part V. Early Cities as Creations; Part VI. Early Imperial Cities; Part I. Global Histories; Part II. Trans-Regional and Regional Perspectives; Part I. Global Developments; Part II. Eurasian Commonalities; Part III. Growing Interactions; Part IV. Expanding Religious Systems; Part V. State Formations; Part 1; Part I. Global Matrices; Part II. Macro-Regions.