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The History of the Ancient World Susan Wise Bauer

The History of the Ancient World By Susan Wise Bauer

The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer


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A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.

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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer

This is the first volume in a bold series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.

Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of history from beneath-literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts-to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.

The History of the Ancient World Reviews

Bauer guides readers on a fast-paced yet thorough tour...a wonderful starting point for the study of the ancient world. -- Publishers Weekly
[A]n attractive introduction to a subject vast in time and geography....Bauer's survey will spark the imagination. -- Booklist

About Susan Wise Bauer

Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.

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CIN039305974XVG
9780393059748
039305974X
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer
Used - Very Good
Hardback
WW Norton & Co
20070504
896
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