A Little history of the world / E. H. Gombrich; translated by Caroline Mustill.

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Publication details:
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
Record id:
25519
Added title:
Kurze Weltgeschichte für Junge Leser.
Subject:
Literature.
History.
World history -- Juvenile literature.
Contents:
--1. Once upon a time --2. The greatest inventors of all time --3. The land by the Nile --4. Sunday, Monday --5. The one and only god --6. I c-a-n r-e-a-d --7. Heroes and their weapons --8. An unequal struggle --9. Two small cities in one small land --10. The enlightened one and his land --11. A great teacher of a great people --12. The greatest adventure of all --13. New wars and new warriors --14. An enemy of history --15. Rulers of the western world --16. The good news --17. Life in the empire and at its frontiers --18. The storm --19. The starry night begins --20. There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet --21. A conqueror who knows how to rule --22. A struggle to become lord of Christendom --23. Chivalrous knights --24. Emperors in the Age of Chivalry --25. Cities and citizens --26. A new age --27. A new world --28. A new faith --29. The church at war --30. Terrible times --31. An unlucky king and a lucky king --32. Meanwhile, looking eastwards... --33. A truly new age --34. A very violent revolution --35. The last conqueror --36. Men and machines --37. Across the seas --38. Two new states in Europe --39. Dividing up the world --40. The small part of the history of the world which I have lived through myself: looking back.
Note:
Translation of Kurze Weltgeschichte für Junge Leser.
ISBN:
9780300108835
Phys. description:
xix, 284 p. : maps ; 22 cm