A History (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A History In preparing this third edition of A History of Civilization we have sought to record and interpret the fast-moving and often bewildering events that have occurred since the publication of the second edition in 1960, and we have also sought to profit by the new discoveries that continue to revolutionize mans knowledge of the past, especially the remote past. The text incorporates suggestions for improvement made by readers of the second edition, and the maps and illustrations have undergone a complete revamping. The result represents not a mere tinkering with the second edition but a thorough revision and, we hope, a more attractive and more useful book. In particular, we have recast sections of Volume I treating the first civilizations (Chapter 1), the Minoans and Mycenaeans (Chapter 2), the Etruscans (Chapter 3), and the Ottoman Turks (Chapter 9) to bring them abreast of recent scholarship. In Volume II we have reorganized Chapters 30 and 31, which cover events since 1945, to stress the interaction of developments in the Western democratic world, the communist world, and the emerging states of the non-western world. Both the mounting tide of paperbound editions and the flow of new scholarly works have necessitated extensive changes in the reading suggestions at the conclusion of each chapter. New maps have been added, old ones redrawn, and all have been printed in two-colors to make the cartographical work at once more appealing and more instructive. The great majority of the illustrations, both in color and in black and white, are new and have been selected with an eye to their freshness and their appropriateness in reflecting the changing climates and "styles" of human culture. A revision of these dimensions would scarcely have been possible without the help of many people. We thank all the students and teachers who have taken the trouble to write us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.