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The History of the Ancient World
Susan Wise Bauer
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Description for The History of the Ancient World
Hardcover. A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. Num Pages: 896 pages, 13 illustrations, 80 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 248 x 167 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1236.
This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.
Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from ... Read more
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Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
800
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
1236g
Number of Pages
896
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393059748
SKU
V9780393059748
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About Susan Wise Bauer
Susan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has worked with parents and students for more than twenty years. She taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: ... Read more
Reviews for The History of the Ancient World
"Bauer guides readers on a fast-paced yet thorough tour…a wonderful starting point for the study of the ancient world."
Publishers Weekly "[A]n attractive introduction to a subject vast in time and geography.…Bauer's survey will spark the imagination."
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Publishers Weekly "[A]n attractive introduction to a subject vast in time and geography.…Bauer's survey will spark the imagination."
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