It's Done!

The Cartoon History of the
Modern World, Part 2
From the Bastille to Baghdad

It's done! It's done! It's truly, finally done! Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 2, brings to an end my 30-year, 1450-page world history series, an epic that began in a Palo Alto garage, when two young geeks with a vision—no, wait, that was another epic project...

The book, naturally enough, picks up where Part 1 left off, after American Independence, and ends in early 2008, when I finished writing the text.

Available October, 2009, from HarperCollins, 272 pages.

PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

		Volume 6. "Guns, Gold, and Good Intentions" Manchu conquest of China, the Japanese shogunate, Mughal decline, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and the rise of Napoleon. [SAMPLE PAGES]
		Volume 7. "Free Trade" Abolition of the slave trade and slavery, Napoleonic Wars, Latin American Independence, the profit in opium, Japan "opened," Africa colonized. [SAMPLE PAGES]
		Volume 8. "What Modern Means" Upheaval in Japan, the search for a "modern" way, European balance and imbalance, Ottoman decline, liberalism, socialism, communism, and nationalism, German union, birth of Zionism, Japan's path to modernization. [SAMPLE PAGES]
		Volume 9. "Bright Lights" Einstein, Darwin, scientific and "sciencey" thinking, imperial competition, Turkish upheavals, a "Great" War, revolutions in Russia and China, a boom, a bust, Nazis and militarists, another world war, and the Bomb. [SAMPLE PAGES]
		Volume 10. "Elegy for the Enlightenment?" USSR vs. USA, Chinese Revolution, Korean War, decolonization, partition of India and Palestine, arms race, Vietnam, youth movements around the world, Iranian revolution, Afghan war, collapse of the USSR, an American "new world order", Kuwait, Islamic terrorists, Iraq War. [SAMPLE PAGES]

HISTORY BOOKS
Cartoon History of the Universe: Book 1  Book 2  Book 3
Cartoon History of the Modern World: Part 1  Part 2 • Cartoon History of the United States

SCIENCE BOOKS
The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
The Cartoon Guide to the Computer • The Cartoon Guide to the Environment
The Cartoon Guide to Genetics • The Cartoon Guide to Physics
The Cartoon Guide to Sex • The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

JUST FOR FUN
Kokopelli and Company in the Attack of the Smart Pies
Kokopelli and Company • Commoners