How they lived: an annotated tour of daily life through history in primary sources

Volume 1. Ancient and Medieval World. Ancient Australia: 40,000 BCE-Fourth Millennium BCE ; Egypt and the Near East: Fourth Millennium BCE-First Century CE ; Ancient Asia: Fourth Millennium BCE-Third Century CE ; Ancient Greece: 2000 BCE-Second Century BCE ; Ancient Rome: Second Century BCE-460 CE ; Byzantine Empire and Russia: Fourth-MidTwelfth Century CE ; Islamic World: Seventh-Sixteenth Centuries CE ; Africa: 4000 BCE-Sixteenth Century CE ; The Americas: First-Sixteenth Centuries CE ; Central and East Asia: Sixth-Fourteenth Centuries CE ; Europe in the Middle Ages: Fifth-Fifteenth Centuries CE.

Volume 2. 1500 to the Present Day. The Emergence of Modern Europe: 1500-1700 CE ; The World Beyond Europe: Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries CE ; The Age of Reason: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries ; The Rise of Nationalism: Late Eighteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries ; The Industrial Revolution: Late Eighteenth-Early Twentieth Centuries ; The World at War: 1914-1945 ; The Cold War: 1945-1990 ; A New Millennium: 1990s to the Present.