THE HISTORY BOOK
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Hardback
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Focusing on the most influential turning points of the past, 104 short chapters tell the history of the world as a series of human-interest stories embedded in before-and-after context.
Readers learn to connect sometimes small events to much larger ideas and trends. For example, Stephenson’s Rocket (the first commercial passenger rail service, 1830) is shown to depend upon the preceding events of the Scientific Revolution and factory-based mass production, and to lead to interlocking global markets, dependence on fossil fuels, and strains on the natural environment. Timelines, cause-and-effect diagrams, and cross-references widen historical connections.
| Copyright | 2016 |
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| Publisher | Dorling Kindersley |
| Pages | 352 |
| Grade | 6 and up |
| ISBN | 9781465445100 |
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