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People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Key Milestones You Really Need to Know offers brief and stimulating outlines of key developments in the history of the world, from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. Ian Crofton, the author of several books of popular history including The Kings and Queens of England, Traitors and Turncoats and History Without the Boring Bits, brings his lively style to bear in a series of essays ranging from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Vikings and the Mongols to the French Revolution and the Cold War. Each essay is accompanied by a detailed time line of dates and events, and the flavour of the period concerned is brought to life by selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Ashoka, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther, Suleiman the Magnificent, Galileo, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and Winston Churchill. In addition, box features throw light on a range of related topics, from the Nazca Lines to Renaissance man, from Confucianism and the state to Alexander the Great's horse, from Islamic science and the Barbary corsairs to the Enigma code and the atomic bomb.
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People often complain that in school history lessons they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Key Milestones You Really Need to Know offers informative and stimulating outlines of crucial developments across all continents and ages, from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. Ian Crofton, the author of numerous books of popular history, brings his lively style to bear in a series of essays ranging from ancient Egypt to modern China, from the Vikings and the Mongols to the French Revolution and the Cold War. Each chapter is accompanied by a detailed timeline of dates and events, and the flavour of the period concerned is brought to life by selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lincoln and Winston Churchill. In addition, each brief, insightful article sheds light on a range of fascinating topics, from the Nazca Lines to Renaissance man, from Confucianism to Alexander the Great's horse, from Islamic science and the Barbary corsairs to the Enigma code and the atomic bomb. Both enlightening and stimulating, this is all the history you will ever need to know.
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It's said commonly that the numerous "Histories of the World or the Mankind" ever published are really only Histories of the White, Christian, Western men. This book it's not exactly as that, but approaches in some sense.
The book is reasonably good between his limits, but this series of "50 facts about... everything" from Ed. Quercus has the problem that too much information has to be compressed into very few pages. Each chapter occupies exactly 4 pages.
Well, another people from another countries should have his point of view. I, as Spanish can say this is a History almost only for English speaking people, with some concessions to cultures of antiquity, Rome, Egypt, China and others.
We see an example of omission: in 1571 there was a crucial confrontation, with little doubt as important as D Day in II WW, the battle of Lepanto, when Spanish Army and fleet with an aid from the Vatican and Venetian Republic defeated the big menace of the Turks in Europe. This is reduced to a one or two minute mentions. It's only one example, but for me, as important than USA Civil War. So, you must judge if you are interested in such biased history.
The book is reasonably good between his limits, but this series of "50 facts about... everything" from Ed. Quercus has the problem that too much information has to be compressed into very few pages. Each chapter occupies exactly 4 pages.
Well, another people from another countries should have his point of view. I, as Spanish can say this is a History almost only for English speaking people, with some concessions to cultures of antiquity, Rome, Egypt, China and others.
We see an example of omission: in 1571 there was a crucial confrontation, with little doubt as important as D Day in II WW, the battle of Lepanto, when Spanish Army and fleet with an aid from the Vatican and Venetian Republic defeated the big menace of the Turks in Europe. This is reduced to a one or two minute mentions. It's only one example, but for me, as important than USA Civil War. So, you must judge if you are interested in such biased history.
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