A History of The Modern World (8th Edition) - Hardcover

R.R. Palmer; Joel Colton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070408262 ISBN 13: 9780070408265

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1994

Synopsis

This text is one of the most highly praised history texts ever published. It has been adopted at more than 1000 schools and has been translated into six languages. This is the only text conceived and written as a history of the modern world, not merely as a truncated Western Civilization text.

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About the Author:

Robert Roswell Palmer, a former professor of history at Princeton University, was educated at the University of Chicago and Cornell University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1934. His books include Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution, and the two-volume Age of the Democratic Revolution, the first volume of which won the Bancroft Prize. A former president of the American Historical Association, he has received honorary degrees from universities around the world, and was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for History in 1990. He and his wife live in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Joel Colton taught in Duke University’s history department for forty-two years. He was educated at City College of New York and Columbia University, which awarded him his Ph.D. in 1950. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Phi Beta Kappa lecturer and the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. His books include Léon Blum: Humanist in Politics, for which he received a Mayflower Award. He has cowritten, with R. R. Palmer, the previous eight editions of A History of the Modern World. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Lloyd Kramer is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His books include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830–1848 and Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions, which won the Gilbert Chinard Prize and the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0070408262
• ISBN 13: 9780070408265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1259