| Edition |
Book Club edition. |
| Description |
2 volumes (xvii, 1029 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
A Star book |
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Star books.
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| Note |
Coverage includes events of 1960 and before. |
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Originally published in 1 v.: Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Books, ©1961. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
VOL I: The story and aim of the Outline of History -- The earth in space and time -- The record of the rocks -- Life and climate -- The Age of reptiles -- The Age of Mammals -- Apes and sub-men -- The Neaderthal Men, an Extinct race (the Middle palaeolithic age) -- The later palaeolithic age, and the first men like oursleves -- Neolithic man -- Early thought -- The races of mankind -- The languages of mankind -- The early empires -- Sea peoples and trading peoples -- Writing -- Gods and stars, priests and kings -- Serfs, slaves, social classes and free individuals -- The Hebrew scriptures and the prophets -- The Aryan-speaking peoples in prehistoric times -- The Greeks and the Persians -- Greek thought, literature and art. |
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Vol I: The career of Alexander the Grest -- Science and religion at Alexandria -- The Rise and spread of Buddhism -- The two western republics -- From Tiberus Gracchus to the God Emperor in Rome -- The Caesars between the sea and the Great Plains -- The Rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Empire -- The History of Asia during the decay of the Western and Byzantine Empires -- Muhammad and Islam. |
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VOL II: Christendom and the crusades -- The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and his successors (The Age of the Land Ways) -- The renascence of Western civilization (Land ways give place to sea ways) -- Princes, parliaments and powers -- The New Democratic Republics of America and France -- The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte -- The Realities and imaginations of the Nineteenth Century -- The Catastrophe of modern imperialism -- Twenty years of indecision and its outcome -- After the Second World War. |
| Summary |
"Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of science-fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The work became immensely popular, earning him world renown and solidifying his reputation as one of the influential voices of his time."-- Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
World history.
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World history. (OCoLC)fst01181345
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| Genre/Form |
Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
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| Added Author |
Postgate, Raymond, 1896-1971.
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Horrabin, J. F. (James Francis), 1884-1962, cartographer.
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