Research Catalog

Title

The pocket history of the world / by H. G. Wells.

Author

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

Publication

New York, N. Y. : Pocket books, inc., 1941.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pocket Books publisher.

Description

vi p., 440 p. illus.; 17 cm.

Alternative Title

H.G. Wells' Pocket history of the world

Subject

World history

Genre/Form

• Maps
• Paperbacks.
• Publishers' advertisements.

Indexed In (note)

• Reginald, R. Cumulative paperback index, 1939-1959

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The world in space -- The world in time -- The beginnings of life -- The age of fishes -- The age of the coal swamps -- The age of reptiles -- The first birds and the first mammals -- The age of mammals -- Monkeys apes, and sub-men -- The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian man -- The first true men -- Primitive thought -- The beginnings of cultivation -- Primitive Neolithic civilisations -- Sumeria, Early Egypt and writing -- Primitive nomadic peoples -- The first sea-going peoples -- Egypt, Babylon and Assyria -- The primitive Aryans -- The last Babylonian empire and the empire of Darius I -- The early history of the Jews -- Priests and prophets in Judea -- The Greeks -- The wars of the Greeks and Persians -- The splendour of Greece -- The empire of Alexander the Great -- The museum and library at Alexandria -- The life of Gautama Buddha -- King Asoka -- Confucius and Lao Tse -- Rome comes into history -- Rome and Carthage -- The growth of the Roman empire -- Between Rome and China -- The common man's life under the early Roman empire -- Religious developments under the Roman empire -- The teaching of Jesus -- The development of doctrinal Christianity -- The barbarians break the empire into east and west -- The Huns and the end of the Western empire -- The Byzantine and Sassanid empires -- The dynasties of Suy and Tang in China -- Muhammad and Islam -- The great days of the Arabs -- The development of Latin Christendom -- The crusades and the age of papal dominion -- Recalcitrant princes and the Great Schism -- The Mongol conquests -- The intellectual revival of the Europeans -- The Reformation of the Latin church -- The Emperor Charles V -- The age of political experiments, of grand monarchy and parliaments and republicanism in Europe -- The new empires of the Europeans in Asia and overseas -- The American War of Independence -- The French Revolution and the restoration of monarchy in France -- The uneasy peace in Europe that followed the fall of Napoleon -- The development of material knowledge -- The Industrial Revolution -- The development of modern political and social ideas -- The expansion of the United States -- The rise of Germany to predominance in Europe -- The new overseas empires of steamship and railway -- European aggression in Asia, and the rise of Japan -- The British empire in 1914 -- The age of armament in Europe and the Great War of 1914-18 -- The new order in Russia -- The League of Nations -- The failure of the League of Nations -- The Second World War -- The crisis of human adaptation.

LCCN

^^^42001706^

OCLC

• 2485228
• SCSB-11746896

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library