An edition of The end of the world
(1998)
The end of the world
by Lewis H. Lapham
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction by Simon Schama
Foreword: "The Wreck of Time" (I)
PART I: THE RUINS OF EMPIRES
3000 B.C., Shurrupak, Epic of Gilgamesh
2000 B.C., Sodom, Genesis
1500 B.C., Atlantis, Plato, Timaeus
1250 B.C., Troy, Virgil, Aeneid
Circa 600 B.C., Jerusalem, Isaiah
416 B.C., Melos, Thucydides,
The History of the Peloponnesian War
146 B.C., Carthage, Polybius, Roman History
Circa 100 B.C., Rome, Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
49 B.C., Rome, Lucan, The Civil War
30 A.D., Jerusalem, Mark
64, Rome, Suetonius, On Nero
70, Jerusalem, Josephus, The Jewish War
79, Pompeii, Pliny, Vesuvius Erupts
Circa 90, Armageddon, John
410, Rome, Procopius, History of the Wars
413, Rome, Saint Augustine, City of God
800, Oengus of Clonenagh, Poem
1000, Ireland After the Vikings, Anonymous Poem
1099, Jerusalem, Fulcher of Chartres, Chronicle
1190, Joachim of Fiore, Letter to All the Faithful
1209, Beziers, Guillaume de Tudele,
Crusade Against the Albigensians
1348, Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron
Circa 1400, Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah
1453, Constantinople, Ducas, Decline and Fall of
Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks
1461, Franqois Villon, "Another Ballade"
PART II: THE FALL OF NATIONS
Late 1400s, Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
1502, Christopher Columbus, Book of Prophecies
Early 1500s, Hispaniola, Bartolome de Las Casas,
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
1527, Rome, Luigi Guicciardini, The Sack of Rome
1555, Nostradamus, Oracles
1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II
Early 1600s, John Donne, Holy Sonnet
1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
1649, London, Anonymous, Beheading of Charles I
1665, London, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
1745, Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards,
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
1755, Lisbon, Anonymous, The Earthquake
1759, Voltaire, Candide
1755, Essaka, Olaudah Equiano,
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
1781, Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis and
George Washington, Letters
1793, Paris, Marie Antoinette, Letter
1793, Paris, Marie Antoinette's Last Supper
1794, Paris, Robespierre, Address to the National Convention
1796-1797, Edmund Burke,
"A Tremendous, Unformed Spectre"
1798, Thomas Robert Malthus,
An Essay on the Principle of Population
1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man
1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"
1835, The Treaty of New Echota
1838, Cherokee Nation, Evan Jones, "On the Trail of Tears"
1846-1847, Ireland, News Accounts and Letters,
The Irish Famine
1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
1865, Richmond, Burton N. Harrison, Jefferson Davis' Capture
1865, Mary Chesnut, Fall of Richmond
1865, Richmond, George Cary Eggleston,
A Rebel's Recollections
1867, Karl Marx, Das Kapital
1870-1871, Paris, Robert Sencourt, The Life of Empress Eugenie
1870-1871, Paris, Archibald Forbes,
Dispatches to the London Daily News
1890, "Ghost Dance Song"
1898, C. P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians"
PART III: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE END IN A VOID
1906, San Francisco, Jack London,
Dispatch to Collier's Weekly
1910, Henry Adams, Entropy
1914, Louvain, Richard Harding Davis,
Dispatch to the New York Tribune
1917, The Hindenburg Trench, Siegfried Sassoon
1917, St. Petersburg, John Reed, Seizure of the Winter Palace
1918, Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West
1918-1919, Count Harry Kessler, Revolution in Berlin
1923, Tokyo, London Spectator, Earthquake
1929, New York, The New Yorker, Crash of '29
1930, Sigmund Freud, The Death Instinct
1931, H. L. Mencken, The Great Depression
1932, Martha's Vineyard, Henry Beetle Hough, Epitaph
1944, Auschwitz, Tadeusz Borowski,
"This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"
1944, Auschwitz, Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz
1945, Hiroshima, John Hersey, Hiroshima
1945, Nagasaki, William L. Laurence,
Dispatch to The New York Times
1951, Hal Boyle, Washington Under the Bomb
1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
1975, Phnom Penh, Haing S. Ngor, The Khmer Rouge
1989, Peter Schneider, Collapse of the Berlin Wall
1989, Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?"
1993-1996
Time/CNN Poll, Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Atlantic Monthly, Newsstand Blurb
Bill Clinton, On "The Coming Anarchy"
Books in Print, "The End of"
The Rapture Index
Is Bill Gates the Next Antichrist?
Press Releases, The End Is Nearish!
End Paper: "Predicted Dates for the End of the World"
Afterword: "The Wreck of Time" (II)
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