a short history of the world by christopher lascelles

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We have a 5-day return policy, which means you have 5 days after receiving your item to request a return. Once you have read this, you will never feel exposed again! An excellent place to start to bring your historical knowledge up to scratch. The result is a book that is reassuringly epic in scope but refreshingly short in length. To help readers put events, places and empires into context, the book includes 36 specially commissioned maps to accompany the text. While the book covers world history from the Big Bang to the present day, it principally covers key people, events and empires since the dawn of the first civilisations in around 3500 BC. The book does not aim to come up with groundbreaking new theories on why things occurred, but rather gives a broad overview of the generally accepted version of events so that non-historians will feel less ignorant when discussing the past. A Short History of the World aims to fill the big gaps in our historical knowledge with a book that is easy to read and assumes little prior knowledge of past events.

There is an increasing realisation that our knowledge of world history – and how it all fits together – is far from perfect.

A short history of the world by christopher lascelles