The History Book

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DK LONDON PROJECT EDITORS Alexandra Beeden, Sam Kennedy SENIOR EDITOR Victoria Heyworth-Dunne US EDITOR Christy Lusiak EDITORIAL ...

REG GRANT, CONSULTANT EDITOR R. G. Grant has written extensively in the fields of military history, general history, current aff ...

10 INTRODUCTION HUMAN ORIGINS 200,000 YEARS AGO–3500 BCE 20 At least as important as Columbus’s journey to America or the Apollo ...

98 A man destined to become master of the state Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Shogun 100 That men in our kingdom shall have and keep ...

188 I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics so far as it regards philosophy Newton publishes Principia 189 As far as I th ...

THE MODERN WORLD 1914 –PRESENT 270 You often wish you were dead The Battle of Passchendaele 276 History will not forgive us if w ...

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12 T he ultimate aim of history is human self-knowledge. In the words of 20th-century historian R. G. Collingwood: “The value of ...

13 written his accounts of chivalrous knights fighting in the Hundred Years’ War “so that brave men should be inspired thereby t ...

14 The Romantics drew inspiration from the Middle Ages, and instead of seeing the past as a preparation for the modern world, as ...

15 progress of technology, enterprise, and liberal democracy. It did not necessarily imply optimism—there were numerous prophets ...

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18 I t is widely believed that the origins of the human race lie in Africa. By the usual processes of biological evolution and n ...