The Spoils of Time: A History of the World From Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century
by C. V. Wedgwood
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This book provides a historic overview from the first appearance of man to the early civilizations of the Middle East, through the Indus Valley, on to the Mediterranean, the Far East, Greece and Rome, the time of Christ, the Dark Ages, and on to the highest flowering of the Renaissance--adapted from jacket.Tags
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2279 The Spoils of Time: A World History from the Dawn of Civilization through the Early Renaissance, by C. V. Wedgwood (read 22 Mar 1990) Wedgwood is a marvelously easy historian to read. This book is only 362 pages, and thus covers in paragraphs what I have read books on. But really it was good, anyway. This may be because I have not read a similar treatment in some time. She spends considerable space on Chinese and Indian history, about which I know so little. Her treatment is obviously episodic, as she follows a roughly chronological method. Well-worth reading. I think she is a superlative historian. I regretted that this book has no bibliography.
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