A history of the world
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A history of the world
Macmillan, 2012
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Bibliography: p. 582-589
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Description
Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of the traditional epic stories, from classical Greece and Rome to the rise of Napoleon, but surrounds them with less familiar material, from Peru to the Ukraine, China to the Caribbean. He looks at cultures that have failed and vanished, as well as the origins of today's superpowers, and finds surprising echoes and parallels across vast distances and epochs.
This is a book about the great change-makers of history and their times, people such as Cleopatra, Genghis Khan, Galileo and Mao, but it is also a book about us. For `the better we understand how rulers lose touch with reality, or why revolutions produce dictators more often than they produce happiness, or why some parts of the world are richer than others, the easier it is to understand our own times.'
Fresh, exciting and vividly readable, this is popular history at its very best.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgements
Introduction - ii: Introduction
Chapter - 1: Out of the Heat, Towards the Ice
Chapter - 2: The Case for War
Chapter - 3: The Sword and the Word
Chapter - 4: Beyond the Muddy Melting Pot
Chapter - 5: The World Blows Open
Chapter - 6: Dreams of Freedom
Chapter - 7: Capitalism and its Enemies
Chapter - 8: 1918-2012: Our Times
Section - iii: Notes
Section - iv: Bibliography
Index - v: Index
Acknowledgements - vi: Picture Acknowledgements
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