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This reference provides a comprehensive summary of world history from the earliest recorded events to the start of the third millennium. Arranged in an accessible year-by-year form that invites browsing, it answers research questions, and illuminates similarities and contrasts between different nations and different ages. With narrative essays preceding every section, spotlight essays on key historical themes, and detailed profiles of 101 of history's most influential thinkers, it offers a depth of insight that goes far beyond a mere listing of important dates. Here is the whole vast panorama of history in every region of the globe—wars, migrations, disasters, discoveries, inventions, the birth of new religions, the rise and fall of nations—complete with authoritative commentary that pulls it all together in a broad and informative perspective.
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Cassell's Chronology of World History, Hywel Williams
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Cassell's Chronology of World History
- Subtitle
- Dates, Events and Ideas That Made History
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hywel Williams
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 767
- ISBN10
- 0304357308
- ISBN13
- 9780304357307
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Children's Books, References & Manuals, Children's Books, Juvenile Nonfiction, World History, Books, Chronological Overviews
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- This reference provides a comprehensive summary of world history from the earliest recorded events to the start of the third millennium. Arranged in an accessible year-by-year form that invites browsing, it answers research questions, and illuminates similarities and contrasts between different nations and different ages. With narrative essays preceding every section, spotlight essays on key historical themes, and detailed profiles of 101 of history's most influential thinkers, it offers a depth of insight that goes far beyond a mere listing of important dates. Here is the whole vast panorama of history in every region of the globe—wars, migrations, disasters, discoveries, inventions, the birth of new religions, the rise and fall of nations—complete with authoritative commentary that pulls it all together in a broad and informative perspective.