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A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD

By JONATHAN HOLSLAG

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In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it? In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigat...Show more

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9780241395561

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Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2019

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A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD

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