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An exciting and original work of historical reference. From the Iraq of ancient Babylon to the Iraq war of 2003 - taking in the histories of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in a grand global sweep. It uses the innovative medium of some 9000 chronologically arranged quotations of more than 5000 years of recorded history.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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1008

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Quotations, maxims, History

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Table of Contents

Quotations about history
The Tigris and Euphrates, c.3200-c.500 BC
Ancient Egypt, c.3000-c.30 BC
The ancient Levant, c.3000 BC-AD 73
Ancient India, c.2500 BC-c. AD 700
Archaic China, c.2000 BC-AD 220
Minoans and Mycenaeans, c.2000-c.1000 BC
The Americas before their conquest, c.1200 BC-AD 1550
Athens and her Rivals, 766-399 BC
Alexander and Greece in the 4th century BC
Rome : the Republic, 753-31 BC
Rome : the Empire, 31 BC-AD 300
The beginnings of Christianity, 30-604
China : the Middle Ages and later empire, 221-1912
The Byzantine Empire, 330-1453
The barbarian west, 341-751
Japan, c.450-1863
Islam, c.610-1055
1,000 years of Muslim India, c.700-1757
Islamic Spain, 711-1498
Saxons and Vikings, c.410-1066
Rus and Muscovy, 839-1613
The Jews, c.890-1790
Popes and princes, c.800-1500
The medieval church, 1000-1500
Medieval society, 1000-1500
The Normans, 1066-1154
The Crusades, 1096-1291
The earlier Plantagenets, 1154-1327
The Mongols, 1200-1500
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1760
The Renaissance, 1300-1600
The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453
The black death and later plagues
Venice : maritime power, 1350-1600
Ducal Burgandy, 1363-1477
The Wars of the Roses, 1455-85
Portugal, Africa and the east, 1415-1583
Explorers and conquistadors, 1492-1542
The rise and decline of Spain, 1492-1700
The Tudors, 1485-1603.
Reformation and counter-Reformation, 1500-1700
The scientific revolution, 1500-1700
The French religious wars, 1562-98
The rise of the Dutch Republic, 1567-1795
Commerce and slavery in the Atlantic, 1600-1800
Trade and dominion : Europe and the East, 1600-1800
The two Cardinals: Richelieu and Mazarin
The Stuarts and the English Revolution, 1603-88
Colonial North America, 1612-1763
Russia of the early Romanovs, 1613-1796
The Thirty Years War, 1618-48
The age of Louis XIV, 1643-1715
Frederick the Great and Prussia, 1712-86
The Enlightenment, 1697-1800
Britain: the long 18th century
The American Revolution, 1761-91
The French Revolution, 1789-95
Napoleon and the struggle for Europe, 1796-1815
Revolution and counter-Revolution in Europe, 1815-48
The 1848 Revolutions
The birth of industrial society in Britain, 1776-1851
Democracy in America, 1791-1861
The American Civil War, 1861-65
Reform in Britain, 1776-1865
America and the world, 1783-1914.
Anti-Semitism and Zionism, 1835-1914
Democracy in America, 1865-1917
Democracy in Britain, 1865-1914
Right and Left in Europe, 1850-1914
Imperialism, 1830-1914
War and peace, 1853-1914
World War I, 1914-18
The Russian Revolution, 1914-24
Stalinism and Maoism, 1924-40
Fascism and National Socialism, 1919-39
America: boom and bust, 1919-39
Britain between the wars, 1918-39
Imperialism and Nationalism, 1914-45
The Post-war settlement and after, 1918-29
The road to war, 1929-39
Crimes against humanity, 1939-45
World War II, 1939-45
End of empire, 1945-94
The Cold War, 1945-89
The Communist world, 1945-2001
The United States since 1945
Britain since 1945
Middle East Vortex from 1948
Globalization.

Edition Notes

"First published in the UK, 2004 by Cassell. Reprinted ... with revisions 2008 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
909
Library of Congress
D10 .C64 2008, D10

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 1008 pages
Number of pages
1008

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Open Library
OL28299218M
Internet Archive
historyinquotati0000cohe
ISBN 10
0297844865
ISBN 13
9780297844860
OCLC/WorldCat
213301789

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