A History of the Western World

by Lionel John Cheney

Paperback, 1959

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Available

Call number

909

Tags

world history, history, civilization, Mentor book

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Your library

Publication

Mentor / New American Library (1959), Mass Market Paperback, 302 pages

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LibraryThing member seabear
I blame this book for giving me my lifelong interest in history. I can't remember the first time I read it, or where it came from, but it was a long time ago and I've read it at least half a dozen times since. It is admirably written and has a grand sense of humanity. Yeah, I know, Great Men in
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 droves and as Eurocentric as you can get, but if I had to pick a single volume to take to a desert island...

Pry it from my cold dead hands -- or those of my descendants.
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Language

English

ISBN

none

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