01676nam a22001337a 4500008004100000020001500041050001800056100002400074245008600098260007700184300003500261505121200296650003401508140610b        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0961584149  aD16.2.H587???  aStrom, Margot Stern  aFacing history and ourselves: holocaust and human behavior. /cMargot Stern Strom  aBrookline, MA:bFacing History and Ourselves National Foundation,c1994.  a???xxxix, 920p.:bill.;c28cm.  a??Contents: The Beginnings of civilization: The rise of civilization -- The First empires -- The Growth of civilization: The Persian and Greek world -- The Hellenistic world and the rise of Rome -- The Roman world -- The Growth of Asian civilizations -- Early African civilization -- Civilizations in the Americas -- The World in transition: Persia, Byzantium, and the rise of Russia -- The Islamic world -- A New civilization in Western Europe -- Transformations in Asia -- New empires in Asia and Africa -- Beginnings of the modern world: Renaissance of reformation -- A New worldview in Europe -- The World in the age of European expansion -- Revolutions of society and state -- Expansion of the modern world: The Industrial revolution in the West -- An Era of expansion and reform -- Nation-States and empires in Europe -- The Imperial world order -- The Modern world in crisis: World war 1 and after 1914-1924 -- Revolution,depression, and totalitarianism -- The Beginnings of colonial Nationalism -- Growing aggression and world war II -- Postwar Europe and North America -- Independent Asia -- Africa and the Middle East After empire -- New directions in Latin America -- From the past to the future.  2Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)