A Little History of the World / E. H. Gombrich.
E. H. Gombrich's bestselling history of the world for young readers tells the story of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the sweep of human experience, the extent of human achievement, and the depth of its frailty. The product of a generous and h...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Little Histories.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- 1. Once Upon a Time
- 2. The Greatest Inventors of All Time
- 3. The Land by the Nile
- 4. Sunday, Monday
- 5. The One and Only God
- 6. I C-A-N R-E-A-D
- 7. Heroes and their Weapons
- 8. An Unequal Struggle
- 9. Two Small Cities in One Small Land
- 10. The Enlightened One and his Land
- 11. The Great Teacher of a Great People
- 12. The Greatest Adventure of All
- 13. New Wars and New Warriors
- 14. An Enemy of History
- 15. Rulers of the Western World
- 16. The Good News
- 17. Life in the Empire and at its Frontiers
- 18. The Storm
- 19. The Starry Night Begins
- 20. There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet
- 21. A Conqueror who Knows How to Rule
- 22. A Struggle to Become Lord of Christendom
- 23. Chivalrous Knights
- 24. Emperors in the Age of Chivalry
- 25. Cities and Citizens
- 26. A New Age
- 27. A New World
- 28. A New Faith
- 29. The Church at War
- 30. Terrible Times
- 31. An Unlucky King and a Lucky King
- 32. Meanwhile, Looking Eastwards ...
- 33. A Truly New Age
- 34. A Very Violent Revolution
- 35. The Last Conqueror
- 36. Men and Machines
- 37. Across the Seas
- 38. Two New States in Europe
- 39. Dividing Up the World
- 40. The Small Part of the History of the World Which I Have Lived Through Myself: Looking Back.