Author: John Morris Roberts
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: 9780141007236
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A revised edition of the sweeping world history chronicles from early hominid life through the global events of the twenty-first century, following a central theme that human history is a story of change through a deliberate shaping of experience and environment, and incorporating the latest findings. Reprint
Language: en
Pages: 1232
Pages: 1232
A revised edition of the sweeping world history chronicles from early hominid life through the global events of the twenty-first century, following a central theme that human history is a story of change through a deliberate shaping of experience and environment, and incorporating the latest findings. Reprint
Language: en
Pages: 1280
Pages: 1280
This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World. For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human
Language: en
Pages: 928
Pages: 928
This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold leap in population, women's lives have been transformed, America has assumed undisputed political and
Language: en
Pages: 1344
Pages: 1344
First published in 1972 under the title TOTAL WAR, THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR was designed by its authors to show a rising generation why the Second World War happened and how it was conducted. In this bold feat of compression they give as much stress and
Language: en
Pages: 724
Pages: 724
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively
Language: uk
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
«Герой імперії» — біографія Вінстона Черчилля, що описує ранній період його життя, зародження політичних амбіцій та етап формування його особистості. Книжка стала бестселером New York Times. Звідки з’являються особистості, які у важкий момент здатні об’єднати всю націю? Що визначає долі героїв — особистий вибір чи життєві обставини? Вінстон Черчилль у
Language: en
Pages: 752
Pages: 752
Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the World. Beginning with prehistory and the early civilizations of the Aegean, The Penguin History of Europe traces the development of European identity in its many guises, through the age of
Language: en
Pages: 1151
Pages: 1151
First published in 1976 to great acclaim, this major one-volume history has been fully revised for this third edition and contains 90 maps. "A work of outstanding breadth of scholarhip and penetrating judgments. There is nothing better of its kind.--Sunday Telegraph
Language: en
Pages: 816
Pages: 816
'China's reemergence as a global economic powerhouse has compressed into a single generation an industrial and urban revolution on a scale the world has never seen. Its transformation looks to many foreigners, and to millions of newly prosperous Chinese, like a near-miraculous escape from the agonies of its recent history
Language: en
Pages: 1264
Pages: 1264
One of the most extraordinary history bestsellers on the Penguin list, John Roberts's book has now been updated by Odd Arne Westad to make sure it keeps its amazing appeal to a new generation of readers. 'A stupendous achievement ... the unrivalled World History for our day. It extends over