The new and revised Outline of history
Subtitle: being a plain history of life and mankind
By: H.G. Wells ; with maps and plans made specially for this work by J.F. Horrabin.
Edition: De Luxe ed.
Publisher: Garden City Pub. Co.
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1255
Subjects: World history.
Other titles: Outline of history.
Table of contents: title: The world before man. The earth in space and time ; The record of the rocks ; Life and climate ; The age of reptiles ; The age of mammal; title: The making of man. Apes and sub-men and men ; The Neanderthal men, an extinct race (the early Palaeolithic age) ; the later postglacial Palaeolithic men, the first true men (later Palaeolithic age) ; Neolithic man in Europe ; Early thought ; The races of mankind ; The languages of mankind; title: The first civilizations. The early empires ; Sea peoples and trading peoples ; Writing ; Gods and stars, priests and kings ; Serfs, slaves, social classes, and free individuals; title: Judea, Greece, and India. The Hebrew Scriptures and the prophets ; The Aryan-speaking peoples in prehistoric times ; The Greeks and the Persians ; Greek thought, literature and art ; The career of Alexander the Great ; Science and religion at Alexandria ; The rise and spread of Buddhism; title: Rise and collapse of the Roman empire. The two western republics ; From Tiberius Gracchus to the god emperor in Rome ; The Caesars between the sea and the great plains; title: Christianity and Islam. The rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western empire ; The history of Asia during the decay of the Western and Byzantine empires ; Muhammad and Islam ; Christendom and the crusades; title: The Mongol empires of the land ways and the new empires of the sea ways. The great empire of Jengis Khan and his successors (the age of the land ways) ; The renascence of Western civilization (land ways give place to sea ways); title: The age of the great powers. Princes, parliaments, and powers ; The new democratic republics of America and France ; The career of Napoleon Bonaparte ; The realities and imaginations of the nineteenth century ; The catastrophes of modern imperialism ; The world after the Great War.