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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393059748
Year: 2010
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 896
Description:
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common
threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the
stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to
the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving
weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer
provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual
lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human
history.
Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while
timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years
and cultural interconnection. This narrative history employs the
methods of "history from beneath" -- literature, epic traditions,
private letters and accounts -- to connect kings and leaders with
the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry
of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the
direction of world events and the causes behind them.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393059748
Year: 2010
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 896
Description:
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common
threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own
This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the
stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to
the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving
weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer
provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual
lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human
history.
Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while
timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years
and cultural interconnection. This narrative history employs the
methods of "history from beneath" -- literature, epic traditions,
private letters and accounts -- to connect kings and leaders with
the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry
of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the
direction of world events and the causes behind them.