Description: Author: George Earl Freeland; edited by James Truslow Adams Title: Americas World Backgrounds Binding: hardcover, no jacket Size: octavo; about 6" x 8" Pagination: 501pp Published: Charles Scribners Sons (New York), 1945 printing Condition: Acceptable reading copy; owners name on front paste-down; covers scuffed and shelfworn, corners bumped; interior clean and complete otherwise, with no obvious marks or notes, except adjacent to a couple of chapter title pages; some newspaper cuttings tucked in rear [OCR is approximate, as always] CONTENTS UNIT I -WE PREPARE FOR A JOURNEY 1. OUR EQUIPMENT 2. TAKING OUR BEARINGS UNIT II - HOW THE EARTH WAS PREPARED FOR MAN AND HOW THE DIFFERENT CONTINENTS AND THE CLIMATES HAVE AFFECTED MANS PROGRESS IN CIVILIZATION 3. THE EARTH AS MANS HOME 4. EARLY MAN ON THE CONTINENTS 5. EARLY MAN IN AMERICA AND EUROPE 6. MANS PROGRESS AND THE GLIMATES UNIT III -WHAT THE FIRST MEN WERE LIKE, AND HOW THEY TAMED WILD ANIMALS, MAS TERED THE BEASTS, AND MADE USE OF FIRE, CLUBS, AND STONES 7. MEN, BEASTS, AND FIRE 8. CLUBS, STONES, AND HONES UNIT IV -EARLY MANS PROGRESS IN A CHANGING WORLD 9. FROM CHIPPED STONE TO BRONZE 10. WHERE EARLY MAN LIVED IN EUROPE UNIT XI THE FOUNDATION OF THE NATIONS OF WESTERN EUROPE 27. THE RISE OF FRANCE 28. ENGLAND BECOMES A NATION 29. THE GROWTH OF SPAIN UNIT XII- HOW MEN BEGAN TO TAKE A LARGER IN. TEREST IN THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS AND TO THINK MORE WISELY AND TO CREATE IDEALS 30. THE NEW BIRTH OF LEARNING AND CHANGES IN RELIGION 31. FREEDOS AND JUSTICE ARE ADVANCED UNIT XIII - WHAT COLUMBUS AND OTHER BOLD EX PLORERS FOUND OUT 32. COLUMBUS AND HIS FAMOUS VOYAGE 33. THE BOLD EXPLORERS UNIT XIV -HOW LATIN AMERICA ROSE FROM UNDER SPANISH CONTROL 34. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE AMERICA 35. RECENT PROGRESS IN LATIN AMERICA UNIT XV - MODERN EUROPE: HOW GREAT NATIONS DE VELOPED IN EUROPE DURING MODERN TIMES AND SOME OF THE THINGS THEY HAVE GIVEN TO CIVILIZATION 36. MODERN GREAT BRITAIN 37. THE GROWTH OF THE BITISH EMPIRE 38. SOME MODERN FRENCH HISTORY 39. THE FIRST WORLD WAR 40. THE SECOND WORLD WAR UNIT V=ANCIENT AND MODERN CIVILIZATIONS IN AFRICA 11. ANCIENT EGYPT-"THE CRADLE OF CIVILI- ZATION" 12. RECENT PROGRESS IN EGYPT AND AFRICA 13. AMERICAN INTERESTS IN AFRICA UNIT VI -HOW TWO CIVILIZATIONS DEVELOPED IN ASIA 14. BABYLON AND HER NEIGHBORS 15. THE NEAR EAST TODAR 16. EASTERS CIVILIZATION UNIT VII -THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND THE BALKAN PEOPLES OF TODAY 17. THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE 18. THE BALKAN COUNTRIES TODAY UNIT VIII-ROME TAKES UP THE TORCH 19. ROME AND THE ROMANS 20. ROSE AND "THE BARBARIANS" UNIT IX -HOW TWO GREAT RELIGIONS INFLUENCED CIVILIZATION 21. CHRISTIANITY CARRIED CIVILIZATION FOR- WARD 22. ISLAMS WESTWARD SPREAD UNIT X-HOW PEOPLE LIVED AND WORKED IN THE MIDDLE AGES 23. FEUDALISM AND CHIVALRY 24. LIFE ON THE MANOR AND IN THE TOWN 25. THE CRUSADES 26 A GREAT PERIOD OF BUILDING UNIT XVI- LESSONS FROM OUR JOURNEY (CHAP. 41) PAGE 458 ANNOTATED LIST OF READINGS MENTIONED AT THE CLOSE OF UNITS 473 HOW TO PRONOUNCE SOME OF THE WORDS IN THIS BOOK 493 INDEX 497 Take a close look at the auction images for details of contents and condition. If you have any questions at all please send a message through eBay before bidding. NOTE: There may be more images in this listing than eBay shows in the top "gallery". Be sure to scroll down to view the full set, if so. Be sure to check our eBay Store for thousands of other listings like this one. Orders will be sent out within three business days of receipt of payment. If youre in a hurry and would like expedited shipping (Priority or Express shipping), please let us know before paying so we can adjust your invoice. Books are sent Media Rate within the US, and other small items are sent Parcel by default. If you would like combined shipping, please (1) contact us to let us know, and then (2) wait to pay until youre finished shopping (but try to keep it within a 4 day period, please). Just leave the items in your eBay Cart and then request an updated invoice after youre done. If you pay for an item, we are obliged to ship it to you, and cannot combine it with subsequent purchases. If youre waiting for a separate auction item to finish, please contact us to let us know. _gsrx_vers_1706 (GS 9.9 (1706))
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Author: George Earl Freeland
Language: English
Topic: School Books
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Signed: No
Personalized: Yes
Subject: Children's
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Original/Facsimile: Original
Region: North America
Place of Publication: New York
Year Printed: 1945
Modified Item: No
