Look it up at Amazon: A Brief World History and What It Teaches Us by David G Croucher
Underpinning the effective application of Common Sense is an understanding of how the world really is. A realistic understanding of History is an important part of understanding how the world really is. As is an appreciation of the lessons we can learn from History.
The Book ‘A Brief World History and What It Teaches Us’
- gives an overview of the architecture of history, putting into context the main periods, people, and events of history;
- draws together some of the lessons that can and should be learnt from history;
- gives various interesting tit-bits from history.
Contents:
WHY THIS BOOK?
WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE AN INTEREST IN HISTORY
Notes on this Short History of the World:
EUROPEAN CENTRIC VIEWPOINT
REFERENCE TO PEOPLES AND COUNTRIES BEFORE THEIR TIME AND OTHER ANACHRONISMS
ALTERNATIVE YEAR CALENDARS
GETTING USED TO MILLENNIUM AND CENTURIES
DEMOGRAPHICS
Prehistory
LEADING TO HOMO SAPIENS
STONE AGE
Emergence of Civilisation
Centred on the Middle East and Egypt
Europe and the Mediterranean
The emergence and heyday of Greece
The emergence and heyday of Rome
A short history of China up to the 20th Century
A short history of Japan up to the 20th Century
A short history of India up to the 20th Century
A short history of South Eastern Asia and Korea up to the 20th century
A short history of Africa up to the 20th Century
A short history of the Americas through to the coming of the Europeans
Europe in the aftermath of the fall of the Western Roman Empire
A short history of the Eastern Roman Byzantine Empire
The Middle East from Alexander to the emergence of Islam
The emergence and initial heydays of Islam
A short history of Europe into the 2nd millennium
The Crusades
Steppe invasions and the Mongols
A short history of the Ottoman Empire
A short history of Persia/Iran
A continuing history of Europe into the middle of the 2nd millennium
A short Eurocentric history of the sixteenth century
A short Eurocentric history of the seventeenth century
A short Eurocentric history of the eighteenth century
NORTH AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS
A short history of the nineteenth century: European dominance
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
A short history of the twentieth century: technology, wars, self-determination and the emergence of the global economy
Lessons Learnt from history
SO WHAT IS IT THAT HISTORY TEACHES US?
SOME GENERAL LESSONS WE LEARN FROM HISTORY
MILITARY LESSONS
POLITICAL LESSONS
PERSONAL LIFE LESSONS
CONCLUDING REMARKS