 | Although aimed at high school students, the essays are sufficiently detailed to serve adult audiences in public and undergraduate libraries. |
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| No doubt this set and the others to follow will earn shelf space in libraries serving high school students and above, and the general public. |
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| This won't be as popular as reading about great lives, but it is certainly a good starting point for a student who wants to develop a theory about the background of today's conflicts. Recommended. |
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| Great Events has not been updated in some time. With a considerable amount of new material, this revision is both justified and welcome and is recommended for high-school, undergraduate, and public libraries. |
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| These resources will be helpful for reports at the high school level and beyond. |
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| Recommended - both volumes. General readers; undergraduates. |
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Mark W. Chavalas, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Consulting Editors: Mark S. Aldenderfer, Carole A. Barrett, Jeffrey W. Dippmann, Christopher Ehret, and Katherine Anne Harper
ISBN: 978-1-58765-155-7
List Price: $175
April 2004 · 2 volumes · 1,089 pages · 8"x10"
Includes Free Online Access Through 12/31/2011
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Great Events from History:
The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E.
Publisher's Note
Great Events from History is a multivolume series projected to cover from prehistory to the twenty-first century. It is a revision and expansion of the nine-volume Great Events from History (1972) set and also incorporates essays from the three-volume Chronology of European History: 15,000 B.C. to 1997 (1997) and the three-volume Great Events from History: North American Series, Revised Edition (1997). The existing essays are enhanced by the addition of new entries covering a wider geographical area and including more women, updated bibliographies for existing entries, a new page design, a section containing maps of various parts of the ancient world, plus succession tables, primary source documents, lists, and numerous illustrations.
Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. contains 418 essays: 289 all new essays, 94 from Chronology of European History, 29 from Great Events from History: Ancient and Medieval Series, and 6 from Great Events from History: North American Series. The new essays increase coverage of events involving prehistoric cultures and social and cultural developments and add coverage in areas of the world not covered by the earlier sets. The date of 476 C.E., the fall of Rome, was selected by the editors as the cutoff between the ancient world and the Middle Ages. The events are arranged chronologically, forming a time line.
In compiling the table of contents, Salem enlisted a group of scholars who provided their knowledge on different areas of the ancient world: editor Mark W. Chavalas, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (Near East, Greece, Rome, and Israel), and consulting editors Mark S. Aldenderfer, University of California, Santa Barbara (South America, Mesoamerica); Carole A. Barrett, University of Mary (North America); Jeffrey W. Dippmann, Central Washington University (China); Christopher Ehret, University of California, Los Angeles (Africa); and Katherine Anne Harper, Loyola Marymount University (Central, South, and Southeast Asia).
The events, which range from "c. 25,000 B.C.E., San Peoples Create Earliest African Art" to "September 4, 476 C.E., Fall of Rome," fall into the following categories: 115 on prehistory and ancient cultures; 98 on government and politics; 89 on cultural and intellectual history; 85 on religion; 63 on wars, uprisings, and civil unrest; 36 on science and technology; 19 on literature; 15 on philosophy; 15 on laws, acts, and legal history; 13 on agriculture; 12 on architecture; 8 on trade and commerce; 5 on historiography; and 4 on health and medicine. The scope of this set is worldwide, with many essays on events that took place in Greece, Rome and the Mediterranean; northern Europe (Britain and Gaul), northern and southern Africa as well as Egypt and Alexandria; Asia Minor, Anatolia, and Macedonia; the Middle and Near East (Assyria, Byzantium, Israel, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia, Syria); Central Asia, South and Southeastern Asia (India, Myanmar, Vietnam), China, Japan, and Korea; Oceania; North and South America; and Mesoamerica.
The articles in this set range from 1,000 to 1,500 words in length and follow a standard format. Each article begins with ready-reference listings, including a summary of the event and its significance, its locale, a categorization of the event, and a listing of the major figures in the event. The text of each essay is divided into "Summary of Event" and "Significance" sections, so that each event is described fully and its impact analyzed. Each essay has an annotated list of suggestions for further reading and is cross-referenced to other essays within the set as well as related essays in Salem's companion publication, Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476 C.E. (2 vols., 2004).
At the front of both volumes appears a Keyword List of Contents, a list of essay titles arranged alphabetically by the keywords of each title, and a collection of 19 maps of portions of the ancient world. Appendices are a Time Line, a chronological listing of events of the ancient world, arranged by subject area; a Glossary, definitions of selected terms used in the set; Bibliography, a list of sources for further study; List of Web Sites, the major ancient history and other pertinent Web sites; Chronological List of Entries, a list of essays in chronological order; Category Index of Entries, a list of essays under their categories, with page numbers; Geographical Index of Entries, a list of essays under their geographical area, with page numbers; Personages Index, an index containing the major personages in the work; and Subject Index.
Salem Press would like to extend its appreciation to all who have been involved in the development and production of this work. Each essay has been written by an academician who specializes in the area of discussion, and without their expert contribution, a project of this nature would not be possible. A full list of contributors and their affiliations appears in the front matter of this volume.
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