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简介： THIS SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD is meant to be read straightforwardly almost as a novel is read. It gives in themost general way an account of our present knowledge of history, shorn ofelaborations and complications. It has been amply illustrated and everythinghas been done to make it vivid and clear. From it the reader should be able toget that general view of history which is so necessary a framework for thestudy of a particular period or the history of a particular country. It may befound useful as a preparatory excursion before the reading of the author's muchfuller and more explicit Outline of History is undertaken. But its especial endis to meet the needs of the busy general reader, too driven to study the mapsand time charts of that Outline in detail, who wishes to refresh and repair hisfaded or fragmentary conceptions of the great adventure of mankind. It is notan abstract or condensation of that former work.
