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Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years
  

Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years (Hardcover)

by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 859 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press (7 Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0593025296
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593025291
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 599,246 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Presenting a narrative history of the world over the last thousand years from an imaginary distance, this book shows how a remote future age might see it, when everything that has happened will look different. The traditional Europe-centred world image is questioned.

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The year 2000 approaches. The chance we have now to look back and take stock will be unrepeatable for another thousand years. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's Millennnium sweeps the past and scans the prospects to present an unprecedented vision of genuinely global history.

Millennium is a new initiative in narrative history, viewing the current millennium as it draws to a close as from the future. The evidence of what this thousand years represents is explored with more intricacy and intimacy than has ever been attempted in a work of this size. With the help of perfectly chosen details, our past history is illuminated over the course of a millennium on the scale of entire civilisations and cultures, revealing the historical initiative as it shifts from one part of the world to another and back again.

With its vivid writing and hundreds of illustrations, Millennium is a classic of popular history: one of the few books which has relevance for the present as well as enduring interest for the future. Critically acclaimed on first publication, it was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Epic, fascinating, 6 Nov 1999
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It's more a serious history than a 'The Calendar'-type novelistic sweep, but it's fascinating, pulling together lots of Things You Didn't Know. It's really a history of colonialism and empires, more than a general history. You won't find lists of kings here.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A stimulating examination of 1,000 years, 21 Sep 2003
By Bert Ruiz "author/journalist" (Pleasantville, NY) - See all my reviews
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In very simple terms...this is a very good book to read. "Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years," is richly detailed and superbly written. Moreover, prize-winning author Felipe Fernández-Armesto is both a "ferociously intelligent scholar" and an immensely successful "popular historian."

To this end, this book is rare because you may never look at history the same after reading it. Fernández-Armesto looks at the millennium from an imaginary distance and creates spectacular unifying themes. In order to do so, he breaks the 1,000 years into five basic sections; Part One - The Springs of Initiative;Some Civilizations a Thousand Years Ago; Part Two - The Springs Uncoiled;The Reach of Conquest; Part Three - The Atlantic Crisis;The Redistribution of World Resources; Part Four - The Twist of Initiative;The Decline of Confidence and the Erosion of Empires; and Part Five - The Pacific Challenge;Oriental Resilience and Western Culture.

The narrative explores and creatively explains the historical importance of Christendom, Islam, China, Imperialism, Colonization, Industrialization, Commerce, Militant tendencies, and Technology. The text also has dozens of wonderful pictures and drawings to enhance the narrative. The author covers a lot of ground but in doing so he has created an enduring book.

Bert Ruiz

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4.0 out of 5 stars Refeshing!, 4 Feb 2000
Being used to history in general from the western point of view, this book offers its readers a new angle. You'll learn about high level cultures in the so-called 3rd world that rarely are written about these days.
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