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Title:
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The Cartoon History Of The Universe III: From The Rise Of Arabia To The Renaissance
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Authors:
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Larry Gonick |
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Publisher:
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Harper Paperbacks |
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Published:
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2002 |
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Language:
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English |
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Rating:
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0 |
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Status:
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Stand-alone
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Availability :
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Available
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Description:
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This long-awaited new volume covers the Middle Ages around the globe, including the origin and spread of Islam; West Africa and the cross-Saharan trade; Central Asia and the Byzantine Empire; the European Dark Ages and the Crusades; the Mongol conquests; the Black Death; the Ottoman Empire; the Italian Renaissance; and the rise of Spain, leading up to Columbus's departure for the New World. Highlighting key events and retrieving oft-neglected historical connections, Gonick offers an historical survey that is at once multicultural, humanistic, skeptical, and laugh-out-loud funny.
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