History in quotations
By: M.J. Cohen and John Major
Contributors: Major, John, 1936-
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1008
ISBN-13: 9780297844860
Subjects: Quotations, maxims; History
Description: An exciting and original work of historical reference. From the Iraq of ancient Babylon to the Iraq war of 2003 - taking in the histories of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in a grand global sweep. It uses the innovative medium of some 9000 chronologically arranged quotations of more than 5000 years of recorded history.
Notes: "First published in the UK, 2004 by Cassell. Reprinted ... with revisions 2008 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Quotations about history; title: The Tigris and Euphrates, c.3200-c.500 BC; title: Ancient Egypt, c.3000-c.30 BC; title: The ancient Levant, c.3000 BC-AD 73; title: Ancient India, c.2500 BC-c. AD 700; title: Archaic China, c.2000 BC-AD 220; title: Minoans and Mycenaeans, c.2000-c.1000 BC; title: The Americas before their conquest, c.1200 BC-AD 1550; title: Athens and her Rivals, 766-399 BC; title: Alexander and Greece in the 4th century BC; title: Rome : the Republic, 753-31 BC; title: Rome : the Empire, 31 BC-AD 300; title: The beginnings of Christianity, 30-604; title: China : the Middle Ages and later empire, 221-1912; title: The Byzantine Empire, 330-1453; title: The barbarian west, 341-751; title: Japan, c.450-1863; title: Islam, c.610-1055; title: 1,000 years of Muslim India, c.700-1757; title: Islamic Spain, 711-1498; title: Saxons and Vikings, c.410-1066; title: Rus and Muscovy, 839-1613; title: The Jews, c.890-1790; title: Popes and princes, c.800-1500; title: The medieval church, 1000-1500; title: Medieval society, 1000-1500; title: The Normans, 1066-1154; title: The Crusades, 1096-1291; title: The earlier Plantagenets, 1154-1327; title: The Mongols, 1200-1500; title: The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1760; title: The Renaissance, 1300-1600; title: The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453; title: The black death and later plagues; title: Venice : maritime power, 1350-1600; title: Ducal Burgandy, 1363-1477; title: The Wars of the Roses, 1455-85; title: Portugal, Africa and the east, 1415-1583; title: Explorers and conquistadors, 1492-1542; title: The rise and decline of Spain, 1492-1700; title: The Tudors, 1485-1603.; title: Reformation and counter-Reformation, 1500-1700; title: The scientific revolution, 1500-1700; title: The French religious wars, 1562-98; title: The rise of the Dutch Republic, 1567-1795; title: Commerce and slavery in the Atlantic, 1600-1800; title: Trade and dominion : Europe and the East, 1600-1800; title: The two Cardinals: Richelieu and Mazarin; title: The Stuarts and the English Revolution, 1603-88; title: Colonial North America, 1612-1763; title: Russia of the early Romanovs, 1613-1796; title: The Thirty Years War, 1618-48; title: The age of Louis XIV, 1643-1715; title: Frederick the Great and Prussia, 1712-86; title: The Enlightenment, 1697-1800; title: Britain: the long 18th century; title: The American Revolution, 1761-91; title: The French Revolution, 1789-95; title: Napoleon and the struggle for Europe, 1796-1815; title: Revolution and counter-Revolution in Europe, 1815-48; title: The 1848 Revolutions; title: The birth of industrial society in Britain, 1776-1851; title: Democracy in America, 1791-1861; title: The American Civil War, 1861-65; title: Reform in Britain, 1776-1865; title: America and the world, 1783-1914.; title: Anti-Semitism and Zionism, 1835-1914; title: Democracy in America, 1865-1917; title: Democracy in Britain, 1865-1914; title: Right and Left in Europe, 1850-1914; title: Imperialism, 1830-1914; title: War and peace, 1853-1914; title: World War I, 1914-18; title: The Russian Revolution, 1914-24; title: Stalinism and Maoism, 1924-40; title: Fascism and National Socialism, 1919-39; title: America: boom and bust, 1919-39; title: Britain between the wars, 1918-39; title: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1914-45; title: The Post-war settlement and after, 1918-29; title: The road to war, 1929-39; title: Crimes against humanity, 1939-45; title: World War II, 1939-45; title: End of empire, 1945-94; title: The Cold War, 1945-89; title: The Communist world, 1945-2001; title: The United States since 1945; title: Britain since 1945; title: Middle East Vortex from 1948; title: Globalization.