The Outline of History

The latest revision by Raymond Postgate of the famous and most comprehensive monograph on the history of our civilisation by H.G. Wells called "The Outline of History". Includes the textual layer for searching. Cover Title Page Scheme of Contents List of Maps and Illustrations The Story and Aim of the Outline of History The World Today and As It Was I: THE WORLD BEFORE MAN 1. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME 2. THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS 3. LIFE AND CLIMATE 4. THE AGE OF REPTILES 5. THE AGE OF MAMMALS II: THE MAKING OF MAN 6. APES AND SUB-MEN 7. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE 8. THE LATER PALAEOLITHIC AGE AND THE FIRST MEN LIKE OURSELVES 9. NEOLITHIC MAN 10. EARLY THOUGHT 11. THE RACES OF MANKIND 12. THE LANGUAGES OF MANKIND III: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS 13. THE EARLY EMPIRES 14. SEA PEOPLES AND TRADING PEOPLES 15. WRITING 16. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS 17. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS IV: JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA 18. THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS 19. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PRE-HISTORIC TIMES 20. THE GREEKS AND THE PERSIANS 21. GREEK THOUGHT, LITERATURE AND ART 22. THE CAREER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT 23. SCIENCE AND RELIGION AT ALEXANDRIA 24. THE RISE AND SPREAD OF BUDDHISM V: RISE AND COLLAPSE OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 25. THE TWO WESTERN REPUBLICS 26. FROM TIBERIUS GRACCHUS TO THE GOD EMPEROR IN ROME 27. THE CAESARS BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE GREAT PLAINS VI: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM 28. THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE 29. THE HISTORY OF ASIA DURING THE DECAY OF THE WESTERN AND BYZANTINE EMPIRES 30. MUHAMMAD AND ISLAM 31. CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADERS VII: THE MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS AND THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE SEA WAYS 32. THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS 33. THE RENAISSANCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION VIII: THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS 34. PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS AND POWERS 35. THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA AND FRANCE 36. THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 37. THE REALITIES AND IMAGINATIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 38. THE CATASTROPHE OF MODERN IMPERIALISM 39. TWENTY YEARS OF INDECISION AND ITS OUTCOME 40. AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE KEY TO PRONUNCIATION INDEX