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'For anyone who wants a lucid, factual, reliable guide to some of the most important issues of our time, I strongly recommend you check out the No-Nonsense Guides.' Howard Zinn, historian, playwright and social activist 'A splendid series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear.' The Guardian, London 'The No-Nonsense Guide to World History is vivid, informal and informative. Perhaps every professional historian should be required to write a history of the world in forty thousand words - nothing would be more conducive to humility.' Professor William Beinart, St Antony's College, Oxford, UK
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Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. We know bits without always understanding how they fit together. This guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional textbooks - from the civilizations of Africa, Asia and Latin America to the history of women, submerged beneath accounts of politics and war. By looking at history in its entirety, we see the interconnections in our past and the contexts for the familiar historical narratives. This guide includes a section on how the key issues of the 21st century - climate change, 9/11, the Iraq war, corporate power, China's headlong growth - fit into the broader patterns of world history.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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To compact an all encompassing subject matter into such a slim volume must have been a daunting task for Chris Brazier. I could only admire the way he makes the task appear so effortless. Brazier, of New Internationlist, wears his heart on his sleeve and the text is never less than provocative. He'll be criticised for his lack of neutrality but I actually quite enjoyed this aspect of the book. I'm not a reader of New Internationlist nor particularly subscribe to its political stance but found his openness to be far less misleading than an 'objective' history. In fact, because it is written in such a lucid, humorous and spitting tone it made reading the text far more of an active process making me consider if I agreed or disagreed with the author. In turn, this made the book far more memorable. I bought the book becasue my knowledge of history didn't really account for the order and significance of events. It has helped me to think of history in context and also acted as an introduction to certain historical eras or larger volumes on World History.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Never has so much been explained in so few words. The great volume of history can be daunting if you want to understand the big picture. Here at last you can read the whole story in just one small gem of a book. Give it to everyone you know. Education education education!
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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There's more to history than they year george the 3rd was born, acceded and died, there's more than Henry 8th's 6 wives. Did you know that things went on In India before we 'discovered' it and everywhere else as well. Brazier has given a far more ballanced view of the world we live in, something you would never even knew existed if you'd done History at school!! Slightly oppinionated in places, the rest of it more than makes up for it - stick it in your dad's stocking at christmas
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