The Complete Idiot's Guide to World History

by Timothy C. Hall

Book Overview

- Puts world events in a context that is relevant for today's students and casual readers - Updated to include the significant events from the past several years This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592577121
• ISBN13: 9781592577125
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 21 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Wonderful overview!

I love The CIG series and this one has been used more than most. This book is an excellent quick reference since I read all sorts of books on a variety of subjects and want a quick clarification before I continue reading. Understanding the basics of the role of religion and religious leaders throughout history, the big wars and who was involved, struggles for independence in countries other than our own has been very satisfactory reading. The Appendix A is a glossary that taught me words and phrases I wasn't familiar with or had read about in past but not really grasped the meaning before and Appendix B is a fairly comprehensive nine page list of The Major Events of World History. I purchased this as a reference while I was watching The Teaching Company's DVD course on "A Brief History of the World" taught by Dr. Peter Sterns. It is also interesting reading for no other reason than to learn the sequence of world events in a nutshell. Good book.

Short and quick

This is an enjoyable book. It gives a slightly biased view of world history from a very high level. It offers no depth whatsoever, but is nice for making connections to other eras and seeing the bigger picture of how various major events have shaped and influenced each other throughout time. I do have one gripe, and it seems to be a pervasive problem with Kindle books. There are very large number of editing problems with the Kindle edition, as if it were not proof read! Sometimes spaces between words are missing, numbers appear in the middle of words, and there are other various formatting issues. This is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with, this sort of omission would be totally unacceptable in a print version and the Kindle version should be no different!

GREAT BOOK!

IT'S GOT ALL YOU NEED IN A NICE AND FRIENDLY LAYOUT, YOU'LL LEARN A LOT AND WON'T GET BORED!