Description
1,048 pages, including 32 pages of illustrations in photogravure and 70 specially prepared maps.
THIS concise and well-planned single- volume history of the world tells, within the compass of half-a-million words, the whole story of man's development from the days before recorded history to the present.
It is illustrated with 70 maps specially drawn for this work and with 32 pages of illustrations carefully selected in relation to the text and printed in rich photogravure.
Here, in fifteen main sections, comprising eighty-four chapters in all, a team. of eminent contributors tells in vivid yet scholarly language a story that is complete, accurate, compact-and as readable as a novel.
It is the story of the progress and achievements of centuries; of man's first primitive communities and how they gave way to vast empires; of trade, invention, science and the arts and their evolution through the ages; of men of destiny-the Kings and Popes, soldiers and philosophers, men of action, men of genius, and of their individual contributions to the sum of human endeavour.
Here is a broad framework of knowledge that will provide the reader with a thorough grounding in world history and give him a deeper insight into the many factors that have contributed to the successes and failures of our own troubled times.
ISBN:HISTORYOFTHEW
