Desmond Dingle's Complete History of the

Desmond Olivier Dingle gives us the benefit of his huge and devastating knowledge by charting the history of the world in 58 chapters and three prefaces. Each chapter is replete with erudition: "The Chinese Empire is one of the oldest Empires in the world and existed until recently without anyone knowing about it. Apart from the Chinese, obviously." The man behind Dingle, Patrick Barlow, also penned the National Theatre of Brent's Love Upon the Throne and The Messiah.

Foreword
List of Plates
Preface
Second Preface
Third Preface
The Creation of the Universe	p. 3
The Creation of the Earth	p. 5
The Volcanic Age	p. 7
The Age of the Earth	p. 8
Life Emerges	p. 10
The Dawn of Man	p. 12
The Birth of the Dinosaurs	p. 14
The Advent of Mammals	p. 17
The Dawn of Man	p. 19
Man after he was a Lemur	p. 23
The Emergence of Civilization	p. 28
The Iron Age	p. 31
The Bronze Age	p. 32
The Egyptians	p. 33
The Chinese Empire	p. 41
The Glory that was Crete	p. 46
The Greeks	p. 57
The Grandeur that was Rome	p. 62
The Discovery of Time	p. 66
The Medes and Persians	p. 67
The Rise of Babylon	p. 71
The Fall of the Roman Empire	p. 74
The Dark Ages	p. 77
Monastic Life	p. 79
The Vikings - Scourge of Europe	p. 81
The Normans	p. 86
Modern France	p. 90
The Fourteenth Century	p. 92
The Thirteenth Century	p. 95
The Story of St. Francis	p. 98
The Renaissance	p. 101
The Age of Discovery	p. 106
The Age of Shakespeare	p. 109
The Life of the Buddha	p. 114
Other Major World Philosophies	p. 117
History in the Home	p. 118
The British Commonwealth	p. 129
The Interregnum	p. 134
The Age of Revolution	p. 136
The Age of Reason	p. 140
The Age of Turmoil	p. 141
The Life of Doctor Johnson	p. 142
World Affairs: 1851	p. 144
The History of Japan	p. 146
The Interregnum	p. 148
The Napoleonic Wars	p. 150
The American War of Independence	p. 153
The Nineteenth Century	p. 155
The Vote	p. 159
The Twentieth Century	p. 165
The Fifties	p. 169
The Sixties	p. 170
The Seventies	p. 173
The Eighties	p. 174
The Nineties	p. 175
The Twenty-first Century	p. 176
The Future	p. 177
Postlude	p. 180
Index	p. 183
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Desmond Dingle's Complete History of the Whole World : From Caveman to Cosmonaut

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