The Outline of History

✍ Scribed by H.G. Wells

• Publisher: Doubleday & Company
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1124
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The latest revision by Raymond Postgate of the famous and most comprehensive monograph on the history of our civilisation by H.G. Wells called "The Outline of History". Includes the textual layer for searching.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Scheme of Contents
List of Maps and Illustrations
The Story and Aim of the Outline of History
The World Today and As It Was
I: THE WORLD BEFORE MAN
1. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME
2. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS
3. LIFE AND CLIMATE
4. THE AGE OF REPTILES
5. THE AGE OF MAMMALS
II: THE MAKING OF MAN
6. APES AND SUB-MEN
7. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE
8. THE LATER PALAEOLITHIC AGE AND THE FIRST MEN LIKE OURSELVES
9. NEOLITHIC MAN
10. EARLY THOUGHT
11. THE RACES OF MANKIND
12. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND
III: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
13. THE EARLY EMPIRES
14. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES
15. WRITING
16. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS
17. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS
IV: JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA
18. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS
19. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PRE-HISTORIC TIMES
20. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS
21. GREEK THOUGHT, LITERATURE AND ART
22. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
23. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA
24. THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM
V: RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
25. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS
26. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD EMPEROR IN ROME
27. THE CAESARS BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE GREAT PLAINS
VI: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
28. THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
29. THE HISTORY OF ASIA DURING THE DECAY OF THE WESTERN AND BYZANTINE EMPIRES
30. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM
31. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADERS
VII: THE MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS AND THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE SEA WAYS
32. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS
33. THE RENAISSANCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
VIII: THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS
34. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS AND POWERS
35. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE
36. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
37. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
38. THE CATASTROPHE OF MODERN IMPERIALISM
39. TWENTY YEARS OF INDECISION AND ITS OUTCOME
40. AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
KEY TO PRONUNCIATION
INDEX