The Cartoon History of the Universe III
Author(s): Larry Gonick
Larry Gonick's Celebrated Series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. Praised by historians as a narrative and interpretive tour be force, Gonick's clever illustrations deliver important information with a deceptively light tone, reaching us about the people and events that have shaped our world. This long-awaited new volume covers the Middle Ages around the globe, including the origin and spread of Islam; West Africa and the cross-Saharan trade; Central Asia and the Byzantine Empire; the European Dark Ages and the Crusades; the Mongol conquests; the Black Death; the Ottoman Empire; the Italian Renaissance; and the rise of Spain, leading up to Columbus's departure for the New World. Highlighting key events and retrieving oft-neglected historical connections, Gonick offers an historical survey that is at once multicultural, humanistic, skeptical, and laugh-out-loud funny.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : norton
- : norton
- : 0.656
- : 17 October 2002
- : 2 Centimeters X 19.3 Centimeters X 26.6 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Larry Gonick
- : Paperback
- : 1202
- : English
- : 320