The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age

From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR

Bauer, Susan Wise 저자(글)

Peace Hill Press · 2008년 01월 07일

책 소개

This fourth book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls―over 150,000 copies of the series in print!

Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? And how did cow fat start a revolution?

Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives―and our children need to learn about the people who live all around the world. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of modern nations all around the world. Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, the final volume of the popular Story of the World series weaves world history into a storybook format, covering major historical events in the years 1850-2000. From the Middle East and China to Africa and the Americas―find out what happened all around the world in the last century and a half. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share together, The Story of the World includes the stories of each continent and people group.

Each Story of the World volume provides a full year of history study when combined with the Activity Book, Audiobook, and Tests―each available separately to accompany each volume of TheStory of the World Text Book. Volume 4 Grade Recommendation: Grades 3-8. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white drawings and maps

작가정보

저자(글) Bauer, Susan Wise

Susan Wise Bauer is the best-selling author of the Story of the World series, The History of the World series, The Well-Trained Mind, and The Well-Educated Mind, among other works. She lives in Virginia.

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  Table of Contents v
  Table of Maps xi
  Table of Illustrations xv
  Foreword 1(4)
  Chapter 1 Britain's Empire
  Victoria's England 5(4)
  The Sepoy Mutiny 9(6)
  Chapter 2 West Against East
  Japan Re Opens 15(3)
  The Crimean War 18(7)
  Chapter 3 British Invasions
  The Great Game 25(4)
  Wandering Through Africa 29(8)
  Chapter 4 Resurrection and Rebellion
  Italy's "Resurrection" 37(4)
  The Taiping Rebellion 41(8)
  Chapter 5 The American Civil War
  South Against North 49(4)
  After the Civil War 53(6)
  Chapter 6 Two Tries For Freedom
  Paraguay and the Triple Alliance 59(4)
  The Dominion of Canada 63(8)
  Chapter 7 Two Empires, Three Republics, and One Kingdom
  Two Empires and Three Republics 71(4)
  The Second Reich 75(8)
  Chapter 8 Becoming Modern
  Rails, Zones, and Bulbs 83(3)
  Japan's Meiji Restoration 86(7)
  Chapter 9 Two More Empires, Two Rebellions
  The Dutch East Indies 93(3)
  The Sick Man of Europe 96(7)
  Chapter 10 A Canal to the East and a Very Dry Desert
  The War of the Pacific 103(4)
  The Suez Canal 107(6)
  Chapter 11 The Far Parts of the World
  The Iron Outlaw 113(4)
  Carving Up Africa 117(6)
  Chapter 12 Unhappy Unions
  Ireland's Troubles 123(4)
  The Boers and the British 127(8)
  Chapter 13 The Old Fashioned Emperor and the Red Sultan
  Brazil's Republic 135(4)
  Abdulhamid the Red 139(8)
  Chapter 14 Two Czars and Two Emperors
  The Next to Last Czar of Russia 147(3)
  Ethiopia and Italy 150(7)
  Chapter 15 Small Countries With Large Invaders
  The Korean Battleground 157(4)
  The Spanish American War 161(8)
  Chapter 16 The Expanding United States
  Moving West 169(4)
  Stocks, Philanthropists, and Outlaws 173(6)
  Chapter 17 China's Troubles
  The Boxer Rebellion 179(6)
  The Czar and the Admiral 185(6)
  Chapter 18 Europe and the Countries Just East
  Persia, Its Enemies, and Its "Friends" 191(5)
  The Balkan Mess 196(7)
  Chapter 19 China, Vietnam and France
  The Last Emperor 203(4)
  The Vietnamese Restoration Society 207(4)
  Chapter 20 Revolution In the Americas...War In the World
  The Mexican Revolution 211(5)
  World War I 216(7)
  Chapter 21 A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends
  The Russian Revolution 223(4)
  The End of World War I 227(6)
  Chapter 22 National Uprisings
  The Easter Uprising 233(4)
  Indian Nationalism 237(8)
  Chapter 23 "Peace" and a Man of War
  The Peace of Versailles 245(6)
  The Rise of Joseph Stalin 251(6)
  Chapter 24 The King and Il Duce
  The First King of Egypt 257(3)
  Fascism in Italy 260(9)
  Chapter 25 Armies In China
  Japan, China, and a Pretend Emperor 269(4)
  The Long March 273(8)
  Chapter 26 The Great Crash, and What Came of It
  Black Tuesday and a New Deal 281(5)
  Hitler's Rise to Power 286(7)
  Chapter 27 Civil War and Invasion
  Red Spain, Black Spain, a King, and a General 293(6)
  Rebuilding the "Fatherland" 299(6)
  Chapter 28 The Second World War
  The Three-War War 305(4)
  The Holocaust 309(8)
  Chapter 29 The End of World War II
  The War that Stretched Across the World 317(6)
  The Atom Bomb 323(6)
  Chapter 30 Partitioned Countries
  Muslims and Hindus in India 329(3)
  The Partitioning of Palestine 332(7)
  Chapter 31 Western Bullies and American Money
  The Suez Crisis 339(6)
  The Marshall Plan 345(6)
  Chapter 32 Africa and China After World War II
  One Country, Two Different Worlds 351(4)
  Two Republics of China 355(8)
  Chapter 33 Communism in Asia
  Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh 363(4)
  The Korean War 367(6)
  Chapter 34 Dictators in South America and Africa
  Argentina's President and His Wife 373(6)
  Freedom in the Belgian Congo 379(6)
  Chapter 35 The Cold War
  The Space Race 385(4)
  Thirteen Days in October 389(8)
  Chapter 36 Struggles and Assassinations
  The Death of John F. Kennedy 397(5)
  Civil Rights 402(9)
  Chapter 37 Two Short Wars and One Long One
  The Vietnam War 411(4)
  Trouble in the Middle East 415(8)
  Chapter 38 Two Ways of Fighting
  Soviet Invasions 423(3)
  Terrorism 426(7)
  Chapter 39 The 1980's in the East and the Mideast
  India After Partition 433(6)
  Iran and Iraq 439(6)
  Chapter 40 The 1980's in the USSR
  Chernobyl and Nuclear Power 445(4)
  The End of the Cold War 449(6)
  Chapter 41 Communism Crumbles but Survives
  Democracy in China? 455(4)
  Communism Crumbles 459(6)
  Chapter 42 The End of the Twentieth Century
  The First Persian Gulf War 465(4)
  Africa, Independent 469(8)
  Afterword 477(2)
  Table of Dates A Chronology of the Modern Age 479(10)
  Index 489

기본정보

ISBN	9780972860338 ( 0972860339 )
발행(출시)일자	2008년 01월 07일
쪽수	503쪽
크기	145 * 214 mm
언어	영어

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