The super summary of world history: with a strong emphasis on Western European and American history

The Super Summary of World History is a very compact history of the world emphasizing western culture and political processes. The Super Summary is for the thinking person. This new history raises exciting questions and puts events into new perspectives to stimulate real thinking about history rather than accepting that the past as set in stone. History isn't just names and dates, but a range of decisions and actions that often turn on the smallest circumstance. The Super Summary analyzes a few events in depth but most are put into their historical framework so the reader discern where and how all of this action escorts us to the present day. If history seems dull, pick up The Super Summary to discover that Western History is alive with controversy and consequence. The book has 544 pages, 76 Figures - 65 of which are maps - a detailed Table of Contents, a time line of essential events, a list of important on-line sources, an extensive index, and 329 footnotes. At the end of key chapter