The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by Susan Wise Bauer
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Author: Susan Wise BauerEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-03-26
ISBN: 039305974X
Number of pages: 800
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Reviews of The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Book Review: Compelling writing with editing problems
Summary: 3 Stars
I will be using this work as a history text for my homeschooled 10th grader. Over the summer I reviewed this work, prepared study questions, and other assignments. The writing is compelling and exciting. The editing and fact-checking is not good. I did not get past the first section, The Edge of History, without finding date discrepancies and an incorrect river directional flow. I am not mentioning other problems found in subsequent sections.
Even if these problems were originally written by the author, it was the editor's responsibility to catch them. Since I get one set of stars to choose from I will be selecting three overall. I would prefer to give the author five and the editor zero. Zero because this is a history and accuracy, when available, is vital.
Summary of The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history.
Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath"—literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts—to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them. 13 illustrations, 80 maps.
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