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Dec 6, 2013 · In "The Story of Mankind" we encounter ruffians and poets, castles and hieroglyphs,Metternich and Voltaire—the great sweep of history. 'The most invigorating and, I venture to predict, the most ...
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44min. TV-14. Mankind embarks on a new age of exploration, and tames the wilderness. In North America, Siberia and Australia, ancient traditions are swept away in the name of commerce and science. Within a hundred years, the irrational fear that produced a witch trial in Salem gives way to a very rational cry for freedom.
In The Story of Mankind, van Loon traces the history of the human race from the beginning of time through World War I. Accompanying his humorous, personal writing with over 160 illustrations and ...
The Story of Mankind was an important example of what historian Joan Shelley Rubin refers to as “the outline craze” of the 1920s and 1930s. At a time when knowledge was growing ever more specialized, popularizers like van Loon, Wells and Will Durant wrote books that sought to present a broad picture of the state of human knowledge, to bring ...
Sep 19, 2007 · The story of mankind by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944. Publication date 1922, c1921 Topics World history Publisher New York : Boni and Liveright Collection
