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100	1		_aCrofton, Ian.
245	1	0	_aWorld history : _b50 key milestones you really need to know / _cIan Crofton
260			_aLondon : _bQuercus , _c2011.
300			_a208 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aIncluye índice.
505	0		_aFrom ancient times to the Middle Ages : The beginnings of agriculture -- The first cities -- Egypt of the pharaohs -- Classical Greece -- Alexander the Great -- The spread of Roman power -- The fall of Rome and its aftermath -- The rise of Islam -- The Vikings -- The Crusades -- The Black Death. Other worlds : Precolonial India -- Imperial China -- The Mongols -- Japan, the island empire -- Incas and Aztecs -- Empires and kingdoms of Africa. The early modern period : The Renaissance -- The Ottoman empire -- The voyages of discovery -- The Reformation -- The Counter-Reformation -- The English Revolution -- The Scientific Revolution -- The age of empire -- The Enlightenment. Gathering pace : The American Revolution -- The French Revolution -- The Napoleonic era -- The Industrial Revolution -- Nationalism in Europe -- Slavery -- The expansion of the USA -- The American Civil War -- The rise of socialism -- Women's rights. The 20th Century and after : The First World War -- Lenin and Stalin -- The shadow of Fascism -- The Great Depression -- The Second World War: Euorpe -- The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific -- The Holocaust -- The Cold War -- The end of empire -- The Vietnam War -- The Arab-Israeli conflict -- The fall of communism -- The resurgence of China -- 9/11 and after.
520			_aPeople often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics – the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis – and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, this book offers brief and stimulating outlines of key developments in the history of the world, from the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago to the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11. Each essay is accompanied by a detailed time line of dates and events, and the flavor of the period concerned is brought to life by selected contemporary quotations from figures as diverse as Aristotle, Ashoka, Saladin, Christopher Columbus, Martin Luther, Suleiman the Magnificent, Galileo, Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Napoleon, Lincoln, Lenin and Winston Churchill. In addition, box features throw light on a range of related topics, from the Nazca Lines to Renaissance man, from Confucianism and the state to Alexander the Great’s horse, from Islamic science and the Barbary corsairs to the Enigma code and the atomic bomb.
650		0	_aHistory.
650		0	_aWorld history.
650		4	_aCiencia _xHistoria.
650		4	_aCiencia _xHistoria _vAnécdotas, chistes, sátiras, etc.
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