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Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students

by Anders Hendriksson

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ISBN13: 9780761129790
ISBN10: 0761129790
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Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers andamp; Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:

  • Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, andquot;Me too, Brutus!andquot;
  • Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the andquot;Big Threeandquot;
  • Rasputin was a pheasant by birth
  • Judyism had one big God named Yahoo
  • Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand
  • Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator
  • The Civil Rights movement turned the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous andquot;If I Had a Hammerandquot; speech

Review:

andquot;Shocking and hysterical. You'll laugh until you cry, shedding tears for the state of American education.andquot;

and#8212;Baltimore Sun

Review:

andquot;A horrifically hilarious compendium...knitting together errors, assumptions, and creative fact-making that are shocking and hysterical.andquot;

and#8212;Associated Press

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The "New York Times" bestseller is now in paperback for more graduation day mayhem--with a new map and a chapter on the Middle East. Photos & illustrations.
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About the Author

Anders Henriksson is the chairman of the history department at Shepherd College in West Virginia. His articles on college student bloopers have been published in Harper's magazine and The Wilson Quarterly, and he has been featured on the Today show and CBS Sunday Morning, and he is a repeat guest on NPR. He lives in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
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Table of Contents

1. The Historian's Task

2 The Dawn of Time

3 The Mists of Antiquity

4 The Classical Age

5 The Grandeur That Was Rome

6 The Rise of Christianity and the Fall of Rome

7 The Feudal World

8 Church and State in Medieval Europe

9 The Waning of the Middle Ages

10 The Renaissance

11 The Reformation

12 The Age of Absolutism

13 The Enlightenment

14 The Age of Revolution

15 The Industrial Revolution

16 Political Conflict in the Nineteenth Century

17 America from Crisis to Triumph

18 The Birth of Modernism

19 Imperialism and International Rivalries

20 The Catastrophe of 1914

21 The Russian Revolution

22. The Inter-War Era

23. World War II

24. The Cold War

25. A New World Order

26 The End of History

Postscript

Quiz

Maps

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780761129790
Subtitle:
World History According to College Students
Compiled:
Henriksson, Anders
Compiled:
Henriksson, Anders
Author:
Henriksson, Anders
Author:
Hendriksson, Anders
Publisher:
Workman Publishing
Subject:
General
Subject:
World - General
Subject:
General Humor
Subject:
History - World
Copyright:
2001
Edition Description:
paperback
Publication Date:
March 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
7.08x5.00x.45 in. .33 lbs.
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