The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities
Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, the numbers that people want to argue about. Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives v…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-08192-3
- EAN: 9780393081923
- Produktnummer: 19361764
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 688 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B18.9 cm x D5.5 cm 1'294 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 1294
Über den Autor
Matthew White is the creator of the online Historical Atlas of the 20th Century. His data has been cited by forty-five published books and eighty scholarly articles. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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