Includes index.

The world in 1530 -- The world in 1600 -- The world in 1650 -- The world in 1715 -- The world in 1783 -- Reformation Europe -- Counter-Reformation Europe -- Sweden and the baltic -- The Thirty Years' War -- Europe and Louis XIV -- European economy -- Russian expansion -- The ancien regime -- The rise of the Ottoman Empire -- The decline of the ottoman empire -- Asia and the safavids -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The rise of Mughal India -- The successors to Mughal India -- Ming China -- The rise of Manchu China -- Japan and the shogunate -- Southeast Asia -- The Spanish-American empire -- Europeans in North America -- Colonial North America -- The american revolution.