• ISBN13: 9788126930647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: August 9, 2024
• Pages: 310
• Original Price: INR 895.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 420 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

A Short History of the World, largely inspired by Wells’ earlier 1919 work The Outline of History, is a monumental account of the physical, spiritual, and intellectual evolution of the human race; and chronicles key events of humanity’s development. The book brings to light the continuity of history and provokes thoughts on future implications of our scientific and intellectual progress. It examines historical insight to bear on the Neolithic era, the rise of Judaism, the Golden Age of Athens, the life of Christ, the rise of Islam, the discovery of America, the Industrial Revolution, and a host of other subjects. It starts with the origin of the Earth, goes on to explain the development of the Earth and life on it, reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the cradle of civilisation. The book ends with the outcome of the First World War, the Russian famine of 1921, and to League of Nations in 1922. This book can be read “straightforwardly almost as a novel is read” and indeed, this story of Earth, from its very formation and the first appearance of homo sapiens through the Russian Revolution and the reconstruction after World War I, reads like the most thrilling adventure story ever told. Though it has been factually supplanted by scholarship that came after it, this remains an engaging history, a classic of science fact from one of the fathers of modern science fiction. In 1934, Albert Einstein recommended the book for the study of history as a means of interpreting progress in civilisation. Breath taking in scope, this thought-provoking masterwork remains one of the most readable and rewarding of its kind.

Herbert George Wells (21 September, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England—13 August, 1946, London) was English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds; and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly. Most of his books were very well-received, and had a huge influence on many younger writers, including George Orwell and Isaac Asimov. Wells also wrote many popular non-fiction books and used his writing to support the wide range of political and social causes in which he had an interest, although these became increasingly eccentric towards the end of his life. He is often called a “father of science fiction”, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.

• Preface
• List of Maps
• I The World in Space
• II The World in Time
• III The Beginnings of Life
• IV The Age of Fishes
• V The Age of the Coal Swamps
• VI The Age of Reptiles
• VII The First Birds and the First Mammals
• VIII The Age of Mammals
• IX Monkeys, Apes, and Sub-Men
• X The Neanderthaler and the Rhodesian Man
• XI The First True Men
• XII Primitive Thought
• XIII The Beginnings of Cultivation
• XIV Primitive Neolithic Civilizations
• XV Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing
• XVI Primitive Nomadic Peoples
• XVII The First Sea-Going Peoples
• XVIII Egypt, Babylon and Assyria
• XIX The Primitive Aryans
• XX The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I
• XXI The Early History of the Jews
• XXII Priests and Prophets in Judea
• XXIII The Greeks
• XXIV The Wars of the Greeks and Persians
• XXV The Splendour of Greece
• XXVI The Empire of Alexander the Great
• XXVII The Museum and Library at Alexandria
• XXVIII The Life of Gautama Buddha
• XXIX King Asoka
• XXX Confucius and Lao Tse
• XXXI Rome Comes into History
• XXXII Rome and Carthage
• XXXIII The Growth of the Roman Empire
• XXXIV Between Rome and China
• XXXV The Common Man’s Life under the Early Roman Empire
• XXXVI Religious Developments under the Roman Empire
• XXXVII The Teaching of Jesus
• XXXVIII The Development of Doctrinal Christianity
• XXXIX The Barbarians Break the Empire into East and West
• XL The Huns and the End of the Western Empire
• XLI The Byzantine and Sassanid Empires
• XLII The Dynasties of Suy and Tang in China
• XLIII Muhammad and Islam
• XLIV The Great Days of the Arabs
• XLV The Development of Latin Christendom
• XLVI The Crusades and the Age of Papal Dominion
• XLVII Recalcitrant Princes and the Great Schism
• XLVIII The Mongol Conquests
• XLIX The Intellectual Revival of the Europeans
• L The Reformation of the Latin Church
• LI The Emperor Charles V
• LII The Age of Political Experiments
• of Grand Monarchy and Parliaments and Republicanism in Europe
• LIII The New Empires of the Europeans in Asia and Overseas
• LIV The American War of Independence
• LV The French Revolution and the Restoration of Monarchy in France
• LVI The Uneasy Peace in Europe that Followed the Fall of Napoleon
• LVII The Development of Material Knowledge
• LVIII The Industrial Revolution
• LIX The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas
• LX The Expansion of the United States
• LXI The Rise of Germany to Predominance in Europe
• LXII The New Overseas Empires of Steamship and Railway
• LXIII European Aggression in Asia, and the Rise of Japan
• LXIV The British Empire in 1914
• LXV The Age of Armament in Europe and the Great War of 1914-18
• LXVI The New Order in Russia
• LXVII The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World
• Chronological Table