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040 _cQCPL
082 _a909.19
100 1 _aWells, H. G. (Hubert George)
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aAn illustrated short history of the world
_c/ H. G. Wells ; with an introduction and additional material by Philip Ziegler
264 1 _aTopsfield, Massachusetts :
_bSalem House Publishers,
_c1987
300 _a240 pages :
_billustrations (some color), maps
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
505 0 _aThe world in space
505 0 _aThe world in time
505 0 _aThe beginnings of life
505 0 _aThe age of fishes
505 0 _aThe age of the coal swamps
505 0 _aThe age of reptiles
505 0 _aThe first birds and the first mammals
505 0 _aThe age of mammals
505 0 _aMonkeys, apes, and sub-men
505 0 _aThe Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian man
505 0 _aThe first true men
505 0 _aPrimitive thought
505 0 _aThe beginnings of cultivation
505 0 _aThe first Americans
505 0 _aSumeria, early Egypt and writing
505 0 _aPrimitive nomadic peoples
505 0 _aThe first sea-going peoples
505 0 _aEgypt, Babylon, Assyria
505 0 _aThe primitive Aryans
505 0 _aThe last Babylonian empire and the empire of Darius I
505 0 _aThe early history of the Jews
505 0 _aPriests and prophets in Judea
505 0 _aThe Greeks
505 0 _aThe wars of the Greeks and Persians
505 0 _aThe splendour of Greece
505 0 _aThe empire of Alexander the Great
505 0 _aThe museum and library of Alexandria
505 0 _aThe life of Gautama Buddha
505 0 _aKing Asoka
505 0 _aConfucius and Lao Tse
505 0 _aRome comes into history
505 0 _aRome and carthage
505 0 _aThe growth of the Roman Empire
505 0 _aBetween Rome and China
505 0 _aThe common man's life under the early Roman empire
505 0 _aReligious developments under the Roman empire
505 0 _aThe teaching of Jesus
505 0 _aThe development of doctrinal Christianity
505 0 _aThe Barbarians break the empire into East and West
505 0 _aThe huns and the end of the Western empire
505 0 _aThe Byzantine and Sassanid empires
505 0 _aThe dynasties of Sui and Tang in China
505 0 _aMuhammad and Islam
505 0 _aThe great days of the Arabs
505 0 _aThe development of Latin Christendom
505 0 _aThe crusades and the age of papal dominion
505 0 _aThe recalcitrant princes and the great schism
505 0 _aThe Mongol conquests
505 0 _aThe intellectual revival of the Europeans
505 0 _aThe reformation of the Latin church
505 0 _aThe emperor Charles V
505 0 _aThe age of political experiments, of grand monarchy and parliaments and republicanism in Europe
505 0 _aThe new empires of the Europeans in Asia and overseas
505 0 _aThe American war of independence
505 0 _aThe French revolution and the restoration of monarchy in France
505 0 _aThe uneasy peace in Europe that followed the fall of Napoleon
505 0 _aThe development of material knowledge
505 0 _aThe industrial revolution
505 0 _aThe development of modern political and social ideas
505 0 _aThe expansion of the United States
505 0 _aThe rise of Germany to predominance in Europe
505 0 _aThe new overseas empires of steamship and railway
505 0 _aEuropean aggression in Asia and the rise of Japan
505 0 _aThe British empire in 1914
505 0 _aThe age of Armament in Europe and the great war of 1914-18
505 0 _aThe Russian revolution
505 0 _aPost-war Euphoria
505 0 _aDisillusion
505 0 _aThe second world war
505 0 _aPost-war Euphoria again
505 0 _aThe divided world
650 _aWorld history
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
690 _aHistory, geography & travel