| Description |
ix, 371 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The succession narrative -- The Persian Wars / Herodotus -- The Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- The history of Rome / Titus Livy -- The annals of Imperial Rome / Cornelius Tacitus -- The ecclesiastical history of the English people / Venerable Bede -- Chronicles / Jean Froissart -- History of Italy / Francesco Guicciardini -- Of Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford -- The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon -- History of the popes / Leopold von Ranke -- The history of England from the accession of James II / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- History of the French Revolution / Jules Michelet -- The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte / Karl Marx -- LaSalle and the discovery of the Great West / Francis Parkman -- The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- The rise of American civilization / Charles and Mary Beard -- The silhouette of a civilization / Lucien Febvre -- The anatomy of revolution / Crane Brinton -- Voting patterns in the British House of Commons in the 1840s / William O. Aydelotte -- The next assignment / William L. Langer. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Subject |
World history.
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| Added Author |
Stinson, Robert, 1941-
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| ISBN |
0830410406 alkaline paper |
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