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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things. The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities.
Matthew White
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Description for The Great Big Book of Horrible Things. The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities.
Hardback. A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history from anatrocitologist's point of view. Num Pages: 688 pages, 20 black-and-white illustrations and 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 187 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1220.
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in ... Read more
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393081923
SKU
V9780393081923
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About Matthew White
Matthew White is the creator of the online Historical Atlas of the 20th Century. His data has been cited by forty-five published books and eighty scholarly articles. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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