World history : 50 events you really need to know
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
World history : 50 events you really need to know
AUTHOR:
Crofton, Ian.
ISBN:
9780857380753
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Quercus, 2011.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
208 p. ; 21 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes index.
ABSTRACT:
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. Crofton 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, and Suleiman the Magnificent.
SUBJECT_TERM:
SUBJECT:
| World history. |
BIBSUMMARY:
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. Crofton 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, and Suleiman the Magnificent.