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Anthony Esher has taught history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, for most of his sixty-odd years. But he has also lived in many parts of the United States, accumulated several years of living and travel in Europe, and visited every inhabited continent several times. He spends a minimum of three months overseas each year, sampling the wine, exploring the streets and the ruins, and checking to see if the rainforests are still there. Esler's books reflect his enthusiasms. These include a fascination with generational conflict nurtured in the streets of the sixties, a passion for story-telling, and a preference for panoramic "big picture" history-like The Human Venture.
1. Before History: Stone Age People.
I. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS (3500 - 200 BCE).
2. Pyramid Tombs and Ziggurat Temples: Egypt and Mesopotamia. 3. Prophets and Philosophers: The Hebrews and the Greeks. 4. Brahman, Buddha, and the Age of the Sages: The Emergence of India and China. 5. The Furnaces of Meroe and the Olmec Heads: Ancient Civilizations of Africa and the Americas.II. THE CLASSIC AGE (500 BCE - CE 500).
6. From Persepolis to the Palatine: The Roman and Persian Empires. 7. From the Ganges to the Gobi: Gupta India and Han China. 8. From the Sahara to Peru: The Classic Age in Africa and the Americas.III. EXPANDING CULTURAL ZONES (500 - 1500 CE).
9. Cathedral Spires: The Growth of Christendom. 10. Domes and Minarets: The Spread of Islam. 11. Merchants and Missionaries of the Indies: India and Southeast Asia. 12. The Middle Kingdom: China and East Asia. 13. Kings and Conquering Peoples: Empires of Africa and the Americas. 14. Toward a Larger World: From the Bantu Migrations to the Mongol Empire.