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Websites

Black and Asian History Map
www.channel4.com/blackhistorymap/
Channel 4 gateway to websites about black and Asian history across the British Isles. You can search for sites by location (via the map), time period (via the timeline) or subject (via the search facility).

World History Chart
www.hyperhistory.com/
Comprises 2,000 files covering 3,000 years of world history, navigable via a timemap that shows what was happening where in the world at any given time. You can browse the timeline by 'People', 'History', 'Events' and 'Maps'.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Contains collections of historical texts that aim at a more 'holistic' approach to world history.

Books

A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean edited by David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus (Indiana University Press, 1997). Currently out of print; may be available through libraries or specialist bookshops.
The Haitian Revolution of 1789-1803 was the largest slave uprising in the Americas. The implications of the French Revolution on its colonies are explored here, including questions of ethnicity in the diaspora.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy (Fontana, 1989) £14.99
Account of the economic and political relationship between Europe and the empires of elsewhere in the world.

The Rise of the West: A history of the human community, with a retrospective essay by William McNeill (University of Chicago Press, 1991) £17.50
Classic account of the relationship between Europe and the great empires of the rest of the world.

The Penguin History of the World by J M Roberts (Penguin, 1994) £12.99
A revised edition of this survey of world history, which gives a sound account of 18th- and 19th-century events.

The Perspective of the World: Civilization and capitalism 15th-18th century (vol 3) by Fernand Braudel (University of California Press, 1992) £24.95
Detailed but readable, a fascinating and classic account of the growth of the world economy, written from a European perspective.

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