Book description
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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 Greats 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 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 Things 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
p>
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 Greats horse, from Islamic science and the Barbary corsairs to the
Enigma code and the atomic bomb.
11.<
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 Things 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
