History In Quotations. Reflecting 5000 Years Of World History

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cassell
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 1008 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Major New Work Of Historical Reference That Uses The Exciting And Original Medium Of Chronologically Sequenced Quotations To Bring To Life Some 5000 Years Old World History-from The Building Of The Ziggurats To The Toppling Of Saddam Hussain.

Publishers Description: With a foreword by Simon Schama, one of the world’s foremost historians, and with 9000 chronological quotations arranged in 90 thematic chapters, this huge treasury is bursting with historical gems. The verbal banquet comes courtesy of such diverse figures as Herodotus, Charlemagne, Dante, Shakespeare, Thomas More, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Harriet Tubman, Rasputin, Lenin, Nehru, Al Capone, Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, Mao, Gloria Steinem, Susan Sontag, and hundreds more. These aren’t quick one-liners, but richly detailed and generous excerpts from speeches, documents, literature, and other sources. Every continent and every major civilization receives representation and enlightening commentary, with topics ranging from the toppling of nations to the changes in science. All the quotations have annotations, with details about sources.

ISBN: 0304353876