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Boston , 1948
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Using both a geographical and chronological arrangement, the author outlines the major events in world history to 1970.
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LibraryThing member languagehat
I bought this beat-up local reprint at Chin Shan Books in Taipei in 1978 and couldn't stop reading it: I'd never seen history laid out like that, with every region in every period. Finally got the classy 6th ed. (2001), but I still keep this heavily annotated copy by my desk.
LibraryThing member Kudrun
Just the facts, ma'm... But oh, so many facts. And 180 pages of index to help find them. As a reference for "what happened when", this book can't be beat.
LibraryThing member ShanLizLuv
This book means the world to me. When I graduated from college (sometime in misty haze of the past), I was the top graduate on both of my majors. When I was called to the stage for my history degree, the chair of the department, much to my surprise, handed me a fancy wrapped package. Once back in
I must confess that throughout my academic career I half expected a professor or fellow student to have an epiphany, thus realizing I was fraud who somehow had everybody fooled into thinking I was anything other than an intellectual fraud. Sitting there in the quad that lovely graduation day, I felt a bit of that fear beginning to lift.
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my seat, I opened it to find this book inside. All the history professors inscribed it for me.I must confess that throughout my academic career I half expected a professor or fellow student to have an epiphany, thus realizing I was fraud who somehow had everybody fooled into thinking I was anything other than an intellectual fraud. Sitting there in the quad that lovely graduation day, I felt a bit of that fear beginning to lift.
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1940