Perfect for lovers of history and the story of civilisation - A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum.
Hardback publication, Publisher: Allen Lane 2010, 707 pages including colour plates.
This book takes us back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans have shaped our world and been shaped by it over the past two million years. The story is told exclusively through the things that humans have made - all sorts of things, carefully designed and then either admired and preserved or used, broken and thrown away.
This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentally, as prisms through which we can explore past worlds and the lives of the men and women who lived in them. 
Neil MacGregor's aim is not simply to describe these remarkable things, but to help us understand their significance - how a stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people, how Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency or how an early Victorian tea-set tells us about the impact of empire. Each chapter immerses the reader in a past civilisation accompanied by an exceptionally well-informed guide.
Good condition throughout, dust cover present with rubbing to corners.
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