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Item specifics
- ISBN
- 9780679446095
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679446095
ISBN-13
9780679446095
eBay Product ID (ePID)
467844
Product Key Features
Book Title
Way of the World : from the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, World
Publication Year
1999
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.7 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-014574
Reviews
"The origins of [Mr Fromkin's book] lie in a question posed to him by a Wall Street hedge-fund manager over lunch. 'Can you tell the story of humanity and the universe and make it whole?'" Well, actually,' Mr Fromkin replied, 'Yes, I can.' The result is a lyrical tale of humankind's past, present, and future...Mr Fromkin recounts [it] exceedingly well, aided by a deep knowledge and an elegant prose style.--Andrew Stark,The Wall Street Journal "Superbly crafted...Fromkin has the rare ability to convey a lot of information, often on difficult or sophisticated subjects, with a few beautifully constructed sentences."--Roger Bishop,Bookpage "Fascinating...engaging...Fromkin identifies the major social, educational, scientific, economic, and governmental trends he believes have significantly contributed to the evolution of humankind."--Booklist
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
909
Synopsis
How did we get here? David Fromkin provides arresting and dramatic answers to the questions we ask ourselves as we approach the new millennium. He maps and illuminates the paths by which humanity came to its current state, giving coherence and meaning to the main turning points along the way by relating them to a vision of things to come. His unconventional approach to narrating universal history is to focus on the relevant past and to single out the eight critical evolutions that brought the world from the Big Bang to the eve of the twenty-first century. He describes how human beings survived by adapting to a world they had not yet begun to make their own, and how they created and developed organized society, religion, and warfare. He emphasizes the transformative forces of art and the written word, and the explosive effects of scientific discoveries. He traces the course of commerce, exploration, the growth of law, and the quest for freedom, and details how their convergence led to the world of today. History's great movements and moments are here: the rise of the first empires in Mesopotamia; the exodus from Pharaoh's Egypt; the coming of Moses, Confucius, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad; the fall of the Roman Empire; the rise of China; Vasco da Gama finding the sea road to India that led to unification of the globe under European leadership. Connections are made: the invention of writing, of the alphabet, of the printing press, and of the computer lead to an information revolution that is shaping the world of tomorrow. The industrial, scientific, and technological revolutions are related to the credit revolution that lies behind today's world economy. The eighty-year world war of the twentieth century, which ended only on August 31, 1994, when the last Russian troops left German soil, points the way to a long but perhaps troubled peace in the twenty-first. Where are we now? The Way of the World asserts that the human race has been borne on the waters of a great river--a river of scientific and technological innovation that has been flowing in the Western world for a thousand years, and that now surges forward more strongly than ever. This river highway, it says, has become the way of the world; and because the constitutional and open society that the United States champions is uniquely suited to it, America will be the lucky country of the centuries to come. Fromkin concludes by examining some of the choices that lie ahead for a world still constrained by its past and by human nature but endowed by science with new powers and possibilities. He pictures exciting prospects ahead--if the United States takes the lead, and can develop wisdom on a scale to match its good fortune.
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