- Paperback: 848 pages
- Publisher: Touchstone; 1 edition (Sep 13 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743270037
- ISBN-13: 978-0743270038
- Product Dimensions: 27.8 x 21.6 x 4.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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#76,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #70 in Books > History > Historical Study > Reference
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"A unique, encyclopedic book -- rewarding, informative, entertaining."
-- The Wall Street Journal
"A fascinating and useful book for a great number of people."
-- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"The Timetables of ™History can give us a feel for the fluidity and many-sidedness of past experience...[and] can help us see what we thought we already knew in a lively new perspective."
-- Daniel J. Boorstein, from his Foreword
Book Description
THE NEW FOURTH REVISED EDITION
A vast and absorbing resource, the fourth edition of The Timetables of ™History spans millennia of human history.
Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day.
With nearly 100 pages of new material, including:
Recent breakthroughs in science and technology
New achievements in the visual arts and music
Milestones in religion, philosophy, and learning
The rise and fall of nations and the emergence of historical figures
Landmarks in the drama of daily life around the world
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Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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By Evan Elliott (Berkeley, California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Paperback)
This is simply a phenomenal book. It gives most of the important events of history and lays them out in a helpful timeline fashion that allows the reader to get information about what happened in any year in politics, science, music, etc. Simply a must-have for any reference collection.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid historical timeline,
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This review is from: The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Paperback)
Although it takes a few minutes to orient oneself with the structure of this timeline reference book, the huge amount of information it contains is readily accessible. Beginning in the 5000 BC and going to contemporary times, the timeline contains a year by year (or age by age, for the earliest entries) list of major occurrences in history/politics, literature/theater, visual arts, music, science and technology, and "daily life." Obviously, not all years contain entries across the board, and several years have packed grids. As the years get closer to the present, huge lists of events can take an entire page for a single year. Although heavily biased toward European and North American culture, the entries are not exclusively western. While helpful in determining the events in a specific time frame, this volume is strictly a timeline without reference to specific trends and without analysis.I highly recommend this book to anyone putting together a collection of easy-to-access reference books.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent source for students and fans of history,
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This review is from: The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Paperback)
I can't tell you how many times I've used this book for my studies. Not only is the book crammed with interesting dates, but also it's organized in a manner that makes it easy to find any item.First of all, the general structure of the book is like a giant Excel program with the years listed on the side. Each square is separated into different categories such as Politics, literature, art, science and so on. For example, if you want to know the winner of the 1965 World Series, you just find the page for 1965, and look under the appropriate category. The index is also helpful. For each entry, it lists each year the item is mentioned and which category. I find this book helpful in that it gives one a perspective on historical events. For example, for a history project involving the years 1900- 1910, I noticed that there were a great deal of scientific, social, and artistic events that radically changed our way of life that all happened in this short period of time. I was able to make connections very easily with the aid of this book. I would recommend this book for literary and theatre students who need to research a time period as well as fans of movies who wish to have a better understand of the era in which their film is set.
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