History Of The World In 100 Objects

MacGregor, Neil

ISBN 10: 1846144132 / ISBN 13: 9781846144134

Published by Allen Lane, 2010

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Fine Condition in Fine DJ, appears unread, no markings. 26 Pages Preface, Contents and Introduction, main text 707 Pages. Originally a series of BBC radio broadcasts, A History of the World in 100 Objects explores objects from prehistory through 2010 CE, including a 2-million-year-old chopping tool, a Welsh gold cape, a mummy coffin, a seated Buddha from Pakistan, and the double-headed Aztec serpent on the book cover. Former director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor engages readers with witty, concise writing that illuminates the intersecting stories of each object with a diverse crowd of experts. "An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read." The Wall Street Journal.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History Of The World In 100 Objects
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846144132
• ISBN 13: 9781846144134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with objects which characterise the world we live in today. Seen through MacGregor's eyes, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. A stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people; Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency; and an early Victorian tea-set speaks to us about the impact of empire. An intellectual and visual feast, this is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years. 'Brilliant, engagingly written, deeply researched' Mary Beard, Guardian 'A triumph: hugely popular, and rightly lauded as one of the most effective and intellectually ambitious initiatives in the making of 'public history' for many decades' Sunday Telegraph 'Highly intelligent, delightfully written and utterly absorbing ' Timothy Clifford, Spectator 'This is a story book, vivid and witty, shining with insights, connections, shocks and delights' Gillian Reynolds Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Neil MacGregor has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002. He was Director of the National Gallery in London from 1987 to 2002. His celebrated books include A History of the World in 100 Objects, now translated into more than a dozen languages and one of the top-selling titles ever published by Penguin Press, Shakespeare's Restless World and Germany: Memories of a Nation.