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World history

World history brings a global perspective to the study of historical events anywhere, but information resources tend treat world history as a catch-all, geographically as history of everywhere but the Americas (see the American history subject guide) and chronologically as beginning in the European renaissance. For earlier periods, see the Classical studies and Medieval and early modern studies subject guides. The subject guide for Area studies identifies library resources about individual countries and global regions, although historical coverage in those resources generally (though not exclusively) do not extend more than a few decades before the present.

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