The Penguin History of the World

ALLEN LANE

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First published in Great Britain as The Hutchinson History of the World by Hutchinson 1976

First published in the USA as History of the World by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1976

Revised edition published as The Pelican History of the World in Pelican Books 1980

Third revised edition published as History of the World by Helicon Publishing 1992

Fourth revised edition published as The New Penguin History of the World by Allen Lane 2002

Fifth revised edition published in Penguin Books 2004

Sixth revised edition published under the present title by Allen Lane 2013

Copyright © J. M. Roberts, 1976, 1980, 1992, 2002, 2004

Revisions copyright © O. A. Westad, 2007, 2013

The moral right of the authors has been asserted

Cover: The Tower of Babel by Brueghel the Elder © akg-images.

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ISBN: 978-0-14-196872-8