Compiled by an international team of contributors, area editors and general editors, The Cambridge Dictionary of Modern World History provides a much needed guide to the main global events, ...

He then knits together these imperial centers with chapters on trade, migration, ecology, and culture, providing a trans-Eurasian perspective on four centuries of early-modern world history.” —Patrick ...

He succeeded every now and again with an invention that would change the world ... advances in history—the inventions and innovations responsible for the trappings of modern life.

But scurvy, which is caused by vitamin C deficiency, is not just a long-forgotten illness to read about in history books—in some parts of the world, it may be making a modern comeback.