This best-selling course book is ideal for first examinations in history. It meets the requirement of Modern World History courses. It is a complete, readable, self-contained course, for individual study or classroom use, and requires no previous knowledge.

• the third edition includes new material in all chapters and contains an even wider range of maps and illustrations

• Coverage is brought right up to the present, with sections on recent important developments in world history

• Question have been rewritten, with lots of new source material