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Asimov's
Chronology of the World
by Isaac Asimov
Book Description: From the world's greatest science writer,
a history of the world from the Big Bang to 1945, told in irresistible
short takes and highlighted by a timeline.
Hardcover from HarperResource
1991
A
Brief History of the Human Race
by Michael Cook
Book Description: A global account of how and why human history
unfolded as it did from the rise of agriculture to the fall of the Twin
Towers.
Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years?
Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different
way? What should we make of the disproportionate role of the West in shaping
the world we currently live in?
This witty, intelligent hopscotch through human history addresses these
questions and more. Michael Cook sifts the human career on earth for the
most telling nuggets and then uses them to elucidate the whole. From the
calendars of Mesoamerica and the temple courtesans of medieval India to
the intricacies of marriage among an aboriginal Australian tribe, Cook
explains the sometimes eccentric variety in human cultural expression.
He guides us from the prehistoric origins of human history across the globe
through the increasing unification of the world, first by Muslims and then
by European Christians in the modern period, illuminating the contingencies
that have governed broad historical change. 15 maps, 30 illustrations.
Hardcover from W.W. Norton & Company
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Beyond
Binary Histories : Re-Imagining Eurasia to C.1830
by Victor B. Lieberman (Editor)
Paperback - 320 pages
Univ of Michigan Pr; ISBN: 0472086332
The
Crisis of Reason : European Thought, 1848-1914
(Yale Intellectual History of the West)
by J. W. Burrow
Hardcover - 271 pages
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300083904
Corrupting
Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History
by Peregrin Horden, Nicholas Purcell
Book Description: The Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship
between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over
some 3,000 years. It advocates a novel analysis of this relationship in
terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they
belong. This is the first major work since Braudel's The Mediterranean
to address the problems of studying the area as a whole and on a long time-scale.
The authors emphasize the value of comparison between prehistory, Antiquity
and the Middle Ages. They draw on an exceptionally wide range of evidence
- literary works, documents, archaeology, scientific reports and social
anthropology.
The themes addressed include past conceptions of the Mediterranean,
its historiography, the history of primary production, the rhythms of exchange
and communication, the pace of environmental and technological change,
the geography of religion, and the contribution of Mediterranean social
anthropology to an assessment of the region's unity.
The book offers a provocative and innovative approach to the history
of the Mediterranean, explaining what has made Mediterranean history distinctive.
Paperback from Blackwell Publishers
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Desire
of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Hinges of History
(Paper), Vol 3)
by Thomas Cahill, Luann Walther (Editor)
(Paperback -- February 13, )
The Fall of Berlin 1945
by Antony Beevor
Listed under Normandy
DK
Atlas of World History
by Jeremy Black (Editor)
(Hardcover)
The
Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by Samuel P. Huntington
(Paperback -- February )
Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About
American History but Never Learned
by Kenneth C. Davis
Listed under United States History
Guns,
Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better
and worse, called the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs,
and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that
way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is not nearly the first to
ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific
fact rather than specious theories of European genetic superiority. Diamond,
a professor of physiology at UCLA, suggests that the geography of Eurasia
was best suited to farming, the domestication of animals, and the free
flow of information. The more populous cultures that developed as a result
had more complex forms of government and communication--and increased resistance
to disease. Finally, fragmented Europe harnessed the power of competitive
innovation in ways that China did not. (For example, the Europeans used
the Chinese invention of gunpowder to create guns and subjugate the New
World.) Diamond's book is complex and a bit overwhelming. But the thesis
he methodically puts forth--examining the "positive feedback loop" of farming,
then domestication, then population density, then innovation, and on and
on--makes sense. Written without favor, Guns, Germs, and Steel is good
global history. - Amazon.com
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Paperback: 480 pages
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393317552; (April ) |
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Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Listed under Volcanos
Salt:
A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
(Hardcover -- January )
The
Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
by Bernard Grun, Daniel J. Boorstin
(Paperback -- December 1991)
Catastrophe:
A Quest for the Origins of the Modern World
by David Keys
If Keys is correct - and a great number of authoritative sources believe
he is - much of CE history will be re-written in light of his findings.
Something happened in 535AD - and the sun went out for a year!
Hardcover - 343 pages (February 1, )
Ballantine Books (Trd); ISBN: 0345408764 |
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Cataclysm
: Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.
by D. S. Allan, J. B. Delair
This book explores the probability that an an extraordinary event occured
involving some type of body entering our solar system and effecting each
planet and ultimately the earth causing major axis shift. None of the reviews
seem to mention Velikovsky, who first expounded this theory.
Paperback
Bear & Co; ISBN: 1879181428 |
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Ages
in Chaos
by Immanuel Velikovsky
Hardcover Reprint edition
Amereon Ltd; ISBN: 0848814975
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Lenin's
Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
(Paperback)
Nathaniel's
Nutmeg
Consider the humble jar of nutmeg pushed to the back of your kitchen
cupboard, among all the other spices that you hardly ever use. Would you
believe that nutmeg formed the basis for one of the most bitter international
conflicts of the 17th century, and was also intimately connected to the
rise to global pre-eminence of New York City? Strange but true; nutmeg
was one of the most prized commodities in Renaissance Europe, and its fascinating
story is told in Giles Milton's delightful book Nathaniel's Nutmeg.
The book deals with the competition between England and Holland for
possession of the spice- producing islands of South-East Asia throughout
the 17th century. Packed with stories of heroism, ambition, ruthlessness,
treachery, murder, torture and madness, Nathaniel's Nutmeg offers a compelling
story of European rivalry in the Tropics, thousands of miles from home,
and the mutual incomprehensibility which often comically characterised
relations between the Europeans and the local inhabitants of the prized
islands.
At the centre of the story lies Nathaniel Courthope, a trusty lieutenant
of the East India Company, who took and held the tiny nutmeg-producing
island of Run in the face of overwhelming Dutch opposition for more than
five years, before being treacherously murdered in 1620. Courthope's heroism
led to the English taking the Dutch colony of Manhattan in revenge for
the death of Courthope and the loss of Run. The subsequent peace deal between
the two nations gave Holland Run and the British Manhattan; New York was
born. As Milton wittily remarks, although Courthope's death "robbed England
of her nutmeg, it gave her the biggest of apples".
Inevitably inviting comparisons with Dava Sobel's Longitude, Nathaniel's
Nutmeg is a charming story, which throws light on a spicy, neglected slice
of early Europe's fascination with the East. --Jerry Brotton - Amazon.co.uk
Review
by Giles
Milton
Paperback from Penguin USA (Paper)
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A History of Britain : At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D
by Simon Schama
Listed under English History
The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640 (Intellectual History of
the West Series)
by William James Bouwsma
Listed under Renaissance
Three
Critics of the Enlightenment
by Henry Hardy (Editor), Isaiah, Sir Berlin
Paperback - 382 pages (November 15, )
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691057273
The
Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
by Simon Hornblower (Editor), et al
(Hardcover)
Elizabeth : The Struggle for the Throne
by David Starkey
Listed under Medieval History
Cadillac and the Dawn of Detroit
by Annick H. Carthew
Listed under Michigan History
Mickey
Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (Critical Perspectives
on the Past)
by Mike Wallace
Mickey Mouse History probes into the struggles over public memory
and the trivialization of history that pervades American culture. Amazon.com
(Paperback)
We
Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the
Hindenburg to the Death of John F. Kennedy Jr. (2nd Edition)
by Joe Garner, et al
(Hardcover)
The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
by Richard Zacks
Listed under Pirates
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western
Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
Listed under Scottish History
The
Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
by Ben Macintyre
Listed under History of Afghanistan
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
by Victor Davis Hanson
(Hardcover -- August )
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