The No-Nonsense Guide to World History

by Brazier, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781904456476
• ISBN10: 1904456472
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-03
• Publisher: New Internationalist Pubns Inc

Summary

Who was the first black queen? How much do you know about China's history? Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. This No-Nonsense Guide to World History gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional textbooks-from the civilizations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to the history of women.   It includes a final chapter on how climate change, 9/11, the Iraq war, corporate power, and China's headlong growth fit into the broader patterns of world history.   Chris Brazier has been co-editor at New Internationalist magazine since 1984. Previous publications include Vietnam: The Price of Peace and Raging Against the Machine (as editor). He is also a principal writer for UNICEF's The State of the World's Children report.

Table of Contents

In the beginning	p. 10
Pharaohs and priestesses	p. 17
Superpowers and barbarians	p. 22
God and the spirit	p. 27
Greek and Latin	p. 32
The rise and rise of religion	p. 39
Light in the East	p. 46
Wars of the cross	p. 52
Glory and murder in the New World	p. 60
The hidden continent	p. 68
Shadow of the Sun King	p. 76
The American way	p. 81
The power and plenty of Asia	p. 88
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite	p. 92
Revolution	p. 97
Carving up the world	p. 102
Total war	p. 111
The power of the workers	p. 114
Capitalism and Fascism	p. 117
The radical 20th century	p. 124
Postscript : shaping the new century	p. 136
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