- Paperback: 835 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone Books; 4 Revised edition (6 Sep 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743270037
- ISBN-13: 978-0743270038
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.6 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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"The Timetables of History" can give us a feel for the fluidity and many-sidedness of past experience...[and] help us see what we thought we already knew in a lively new perspective.
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Vast and absorbing, spanning millennia of human history, "The Timetables of History," achieves a goal in the study of the past that is unmatched by any other reference volume -- it gives us a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world. This remarkable book maps out at a glance what was happening "simultaneously," from the dawn of history to the present day. Never before has progress been presented with such clarity or with a view that fully captures the essence and the excitement of civilization.
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* Recent breakthroughs in science and technology
* New achievements in the visual arts and music
* Milestones in religion, philosophy, and learning
* The rise and fall of nations and the emergence of historic figures
* Landmarks in the drama of daily life
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first came upon this book in the German edition and was fasinated by the format and the amount of information it contained. I am doing research on a 12th century German saint, Hildegard of Bingen, and it was very helpful to me. However, when I returned and bought the English edition, Hildegard was omitted. That was disappointing. At any rate it is certainly worth the price.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There's been a long, steady shift from seeing history as about 'battles and dates' to exploring the cultures which informed the times. The Timetables of History goes right back to the opposite extreme -- simple chronicling with virtually no explanation. In this way it follows in the footsteps of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Quedlinburg Annals, and many of the other medieval and ancient chronicles of what happened when, linking events because they happened at the same time, even if there was no other connection.
The TimeTables of History goes one better than the early chronicles, in that it lays things out across the double page spread in columns of politics, art, science, etc, making it at least easier to find something if you know the approximate date and what kind of thing it was.
I can't possibly fault this book in achieving what it sets out to do. Once you take away causality and analysis, you are left implicitly with a fairly random collection of what seemed important to the compiler. Some events and people -- the Battle of Hastings, Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill -- are obviously mandatory, but others are more of a personal opinion. Indeed, some of the dates of things are somewhat of a personal opinion, since few ideas or inventions sprang into life fully formed in a particular year, and The Timetables is much too concise to give more than a single mention to all but the most major inventions and discoveries.
If you're writing a historical novel or a history essay, or simply referencing the events of a particular year in your blog, this is invaluable for placing things which seem to be from different periods in their proper frame of reference. For example, few people are aware that Isaac Newton, who seems to us so thoroughly modern with his theory of gravitation and his calculus, was born the year after Galileo, who seems to us so medieval, being forced to recant his heretical notion that the earth went round the sun, died. But this is the kind of connection in time that this book makes so obvious.
At the same time, I wouldn't want to claim more for this book than it really is. You need to know quite a lot of history, or at least be willing to look things up in other works, to make much sense of most of this. Likewise, although the book attempts to pin down some longer-term issues by assigning a particular key date to them, it does not give much in the way of trends.
Nonetheless, warmly recommended alternative reference, or simply for amusing browsing.
The TimeTables of History goes one better than the early chronicles, in that it lays things out across the double page spread in columns of politics, art, science, etc, making it at least easier to find something if you know the approximate date and what kind of thing it was.
I can't possibly fault this book in achieving what it sets out to do. Once you take away causality and analysis, you are left implicitly with a fairly random collection of what seemed important to the compiler. Some events and people -- the Battle of Hastings, Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill -- are obviously mandatory, but others are more of a personal opinion. Indeed, some of the dates of things are somewhat of a personal opinion, since few ideas or inventions sprang into life fully formed in a particular year, and The Timetables is much too concise to give more than a single mention to all but the most major inventions and discoveries.
If you're writing a historical novel or a history essay, or simply referencing the events of a particular year in your blog, this is invaluable for placing things which seem to be from different periods in their proper frame of reference. For example, few people are aware that Isaac Newton, who seems to us so thoroughly modern with his theory of gravitation and his calculus, was born the year after Galileo, who seems to us so medieval, being forced to recant his heretical notion that the earth went round the sun, died. But this is the kind of connection in time that this book makes so obvious.
At the same time, I wouldn't want to claim more for this book than it really is. You need to know quite a lot of history, or at least be willing to look things up in other works, to make much sense of most of this. Likewise, although the book attempts to pin down some longer-term issues by assigning a particular key date to them, it does not give much in the way of trends.
Nonetheless, warmly recommended alternative reference, or simply for amusing browsing.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wanted to do myself a comparison table between history, religion, art, family, etc changes. Why spend so much time on that if this book is a complete verson of all this and much more. I was indeed interested to read it for the whole family. And really helpful for kids' studies.
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Fluid in its approach, rich in content, educational
The Timetables of History is a big book and is a `horizontal linkage of people and events' by Bernard Grun, though is based on Werner Stein's Kulturfahrplan. Read more
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chart like summary of world history events
I found this book to be thoroughly helpful to me. I was planning a SPECIAL presentation for my parents 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY and used this book for research. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 1998
Well done but not as useful as it might seem
This seems like a wonderful book... the whole thing is a chart of what happens year by year (or in larger chunks). No prose, just lists of occurances, dates, figures. Read more
Published on 2 May 1998
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