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An illustrated short history of the world / H. G. Wells ; with an introduction and additional material by Philip Ziegler

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Topsfield, Massachusetts : Salem House Publishers, 1987Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0881622869
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 909.19
Contents:
The world in space
The world in time
The beginnings of life
The age of fishes
The age of the coal swamps
The age of reptiles
The first birds and the first mammals
The age of mammals
Monkeys, apes, and sub-men
The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian man
The first true men
Primitive thought
The beginnings of cultivation
The first Americans
Sumeria, early Egypt and writing
Primitive nomadic peoples
The first sea-going peoples
Egypt, Babylon, Assyria
The primitive Aryans
The last Babylonian empire and the empire of Darius I
The early history of the Jews
Priests and prophets in Judea
The Greeks
The wars of the Greeks and Persians
The splendour of Greece
The empire of Alexander the Great
The museum and library of Alexandria
The life of Gautama Buddha
King Asoka
Confucius and Lao Tse
Rome comes into history
Rome and carthage
The growth of the Roman Empire
Between Rome and China
The common man's life under the early Roman empire
Religious developments under the Roman empire
The teaching of Jesus
The development of doctrinal Christianity
The Barbarians break the empire into East and West
The huns and the end of the Western empire
The Byzantine and Sassanid empires
The dynasties of Sui and Tang in China
Muhammad and Islam
The great days of the Arabs
The development of Latin Christendom
The crusades and the age of papal dominion
The recalcitrant princes and the great schism
The Mongol conquests
The intellectual revival of the Europeans
The reformation of the Latin church
The emperor Charles V
The age of political experiments, of grand monarchy and parliaments and republicanism in Europe
The new empires of the Europeans in Asia and overseas
The American war of independence
The French revolution and the restoration of monarchy in France
The uneasy peace in Europe that followed the fall of Napoleon
The development of material knowledge
The industrial revolution
The development of modern political and social ideas
The expansion of the United States
The rise of Germany to predominance in Europe
The new overseas empires of steamship and railway
European aggression in Asia and the rise of Japan
The British empire in 1914
The age of Armament in Europe and the great war of 1914-18
The Russian revolution
Post-war Euphoria
Disillusion
The second world war
Post-war Euphoria again
The divided world
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The world in space

The world in time

The beginnings of life

The age of fishes

The age of the coal swamps

The age of reptiles

The first birds and the first mammals

The age of mammals

Monkeys, apes, and sub-men

The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian man

The first true men

Primitive thought

The beginnings of cultivation

The first Americans

Sumeria, early Egypt and writing

Primitive nomadic peoples

The first sea-going peoples

Egypt, Babylon, Assyria

The primitive Aryans

The last Babylonian empire and the empire of Darius I

The early history of the Jews

Priests and prophets in Judea

The Greeks

The wars of the Greeks and Persians

The splendour of Greece

The empire of Alexander the Great

The museum and library of Alexandria

The life of Gautama Buddha

King Asoka

Confucius and Lao Tse

Rome comes into history

Rome and carthage

The growth of the Roman Empire

Between Rome and China

The common man's life under the early Roman empire

Religious developments under the Roman empire

The teaching of Jesus

The development of doctrinal Christianity

The Barbarians break the empire into East and West

The huns and the end of the Western empire

The Byzantine and Sassanid empires

The dynasties of Sui and Tang in China

Muhammad and Islam

The great days of the Arabs

The development of Latin Christendom

The crusades and the age of papal dominion

The recalcitrant princes and the great schism

The Mongol conquests

The intellectual revival of the Europeans

The reformation of the Latin church

The emperor Charles V

The age of political experiments, of grand monarchy and parliaments and republicanism in Europe

The new empires of the Europeans in Asia and overseas

The American war of independence

The French revolution and the restoration of monarchy in France

The uneasy peace in Europe that followed the fall of Napoleon

The development of material knowledge

The industrial revolution

The development of modern political and social ideas

The expansion of the United States

The rise of Germany to predominance in Europe

The new overseas empires of steamship and railway

European aggression in Asia and the rise of Japan

The British empire in 1914

The age of Armament in Europe and the great war of 1914-18

The Russian revolution

Post-war Euphoria

Disillusion

The second world war

Post-war Euphoria again

The divided world

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