This book is part of a book series called Usborne World History .

There are 112 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Jane Bingham is an experienced author and editor of children's books.

This book has the following chapters: Looking at the last 500 years; exploring the world; the Ottoman empire; the Mogul empire; Catholics and Protestants; Elizabethan England; kings, cavaliers and roundheads; the power of the Habsburgs; the rise of the Dutch; France and the Sun King; the age of ideas; changes in Russia; Russians and Prussians; early settlers in the Americas; settlers in North America; the slave trade; exploring the South Seas; the British in India; the American Revolution; the French Revolution; the empire of Napoleon; changes in farming; the Industrial Revolution; life in the new towns; the year of revolutions; new nations; revolutions in South America; the scramble for Africa; the American civil war; the growth of the USA; the Ming and the Ch'ing; changes in China; changes in Japan; the First World War; the Russian Revolution; Stalin's Soviet Union; the people's republic; good times, bad times; the rise of fascism; Europe at war; the world at war; from colonies to countries; war in the Middle East; the Cold War; the space race; the fall of communism; rights for all; sound and pictures; our polluted planet; the computer revolution; the end of the century; world time chart; word list.