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The No Nonsense Guide to World History - Chris Brazier

Description: ISBN 1859843557 / Genre: History / Author: Chris Brazier / Paperback / 144 Pages / Book is published 2001-09-06 by Verso Books

Newest Review: ... Indo-European or "Aryan" peoples, (which, as the book points out is an innocuous phrase that, much like the ... more

... swastika, was hijacked by the Nazis), to the rise and fall of the Persian and Assyrian empires, to the steady growth and slow, bloody unification of China to the fall of the Roman Empire and the spread of Islam and Christianity and splitting of Western and Eastern Europe, Brazier's book provides a hugely informative and coherent narrative. The roles of played by Christianity in shaping Western thinking and foreign policy are explored, from the Crusades to the colonisation of the Americas and beyond, as is the role of Isla...more

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The No Nonsense Guide to World History - Chris Brazier: A skewed (if laudable) take on world history (1043 words)
by - written on 14/06/09 (Very useful, 30 readings)
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Chris Brazier's "No Nonsense to World History" is a useful little book which strives, in under 150 small pages, to chronicle the ascent of man from a sparse distribution of hunter gatherers to the omnipresent, 6-billion strong, technologically advanced species of today. The book is well set out and easy to read, being organised into short, generally chronologically ordered chapters. After a very brief chapter on the dawn of man, his migration from Africa, and the dawn of agriculture, the book provides a look at the first civilizations across the world, from the Sumerians and the Egyptians onwards, complete with a hugely useful civilisation timeline ... Read the complete review

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