The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, Based on Werner Stein's KulturfahrplanThe Timetables of History spans millennia of human history. Unlike any other reference volume, this book gives a sweeping overview of the making of the contemporary world by mapping out at a glance what was happening simultaneously, from the dawn of history to the present day. |
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... HISTORY pore rati en t- -5000 to. " Time , " wrote the famous American philosopher - idler Henry David Thoreau , " is but the stream I go fishing in . " Each of us - with the help of parents , grandparents , friends , teachers ...
... HISTORY pore rati en t- -5000 to. " Time , " wrote the famous American philosopher - idler Henry David Thoreau , " is but the stream I go fishing in . " Each of us - with the help of parents , grandparents , friends , teachers ...
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... history , another peculiarity of our date - oriented thinking perverts our view of the experience of history . Against this malady The Timetables of History may be a mild corrective . For we have been trained to think of the past as a ...
... history , another peculiarity of our date - oriented thinking perverts our view of the experience of history . Against this malady The Timetables of History may be a mild corrective . For we have been trained to think of the past as a ...
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... History 1959 B Herman , Jerry 1964 E Hermann und Dorothea 1797 B Hermes , Georg 1819 C Hermes 1875 D Hernani 1830 B Herndon , Hugh 1931 F Herne , James A. 1839 B Hero , The ... History of the English - Speaking Peoples 1956 C History INDEX.
... History 1959 B Herman , Jerry 1964 E Hermann und Dorothea 1797 B Hermes , Georg 1819 C Hermes 1875 D Hernani 1830 B Herndon , Hugh 1931 F Herne , James A. 1839 B Hero , The ... History of the English - Speaking Peoples 1956 C History INDEX.
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