J. Trager – The People’s Chronology (Third edition)

Автор: J. Trager
Название книги: The People's Chronology (Third edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: История
Страницы: 6957
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

The ever-popular People's Chronology presents more than 35,000 entries that chronicle the major historical events in 30 categories of human endeavor–from art to communications to literature to music to religion to science and more. “Enormous fun to read.”–The Washington Post.

This eBook version of The People's Chronology is intended as a handy online reference
to historical developments, including many not found in conventional history books.
Since its first appearance in book form more than 25 years ago, the Chronology has come
into wide use in U.S., Canadian, British, and Japanese libraries, newsrooms, radio and
television news organizations, schools, and offices. Having proved itself as an accurate,
reliable, and concise source of information, it has now been completely revised and
updated for Internet users by its original creator, James Trager.
Entries are grouped by category, with an appropriate graphic symbol in the margin to
identify each category. These 33 icons are usually self-explanatory: 1 political events 2
human rights, social justice 3 philanthropy 4 exploration, colonization 5 commerce 6
retail trade 7 energy 8 transportation 9 technology 10 science 11 medicine 12 religion 13
education 14 communications, media 15 literature 16 art 17 photography 18 theater, film
19 music 20 sports 21 everyday life 22 tobacco 23 crime 24 architecture, real estate 25
environment 26 marine resources 27 agriculture 28 food availability 29 nutrition 30
consumer protection 31 food and drink 32 restaurants 33 population.
Encyclopedia entries are in alphabetical order. But history did not happen alphabetically;
it happened day by day, year by year, and while there have been other chronologies they
have all been bare-bones listings with little or none of the detail that brings history alive.
Exploring the past chronologically serves to demonstrate that knowledge grows
incrementally, that one advance leads to another, that most innovations of value come
from people who have built on work done by others in years past. A balanced,
responsible chronology also helps to show interrelationships (often obscured in
conventional histories) between politics, economics, energy, transportation, technology,
science, and medicine.
The People's Chronology shakes the dust out of the history books. It lets the user return,
in effect, to any given point in years past and savor the events of that particular time. Free
of commercials (but not excluding brand names), it uses plain language to illuminate the
real world, bringing in entrepreneurs, movie stars, inventors, sports heroes, civil rights
leaders, scientists, songwriters—the men and women who made our world what it is
today.