- Presents a comprehensive historical reference containing nine thousand quotations arranged in ninety thematic chapters covering five thousand years of world history and includes statements from those such as Winston Churchill, Elizabeth I, Julius Caesar, and George Washington. Contents : Quotations about history -- The Tigris and Euphrates, c.3200-c.500 BC -- Ancient Egypt, c.3000-c.30 BC -- The ancient Levant, c.3000 BC-AD 73 -- Ancient India, c.2500 BV-c. AD 700 -- Archaic China, c.2000 BC-AD 220 -- Minoans and Mycenaeans, c.2000-c.1000 BC -- The Americas before their conquest, c.1200 BC-AD 1550 -- Athens and her Rivals, 766-399 BC -- Alexander and Greece in the 4th century BC -- Rome: the Republic, 753-31 BC -- Rome: the Empire, 31 BC-AD 300 -- The beginnings of Christianity, 30-604 -- China: the Middle Ages and later empire, 221-1912 -- The Byzantine Empire, 330-1453 -- The barbarian west, 341-751 -- Japan, c.450-1863 -- Islam, c.610-1055 -- 1,000 years of Muslim India, c.700-1757 -- Islamic Spain, 711-1498 -- Saxons and Vikings, c.410-1066 -- Rus and Muscovy, 839-1613 -- The Jews, c.890-1790 -- Popes and princes, c.800-1500 -- The medieval church, 1000-1500 -- Medieval society, 1000-1500 -- The Normans, 1066-1154 -- The Crusades, 1096-1291 -- The earlier Plantagenets, 1154-1327 -- The Mongols, 1200-1500 -- The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1760 -- The Renaissance, 1300-1600 -- The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453 -- The black death and later plagues -- Venice: maritime power, 1350-1600 -- Ducal Burgandy, 1363-1477 -- The Wars of the Roses, 1455-85 -- Portugal, Africa and the east, 1415-1583 -- Explorers and conquistadors, 1492-1542 -- The rise and decline of Spain, 1492-1700 -- The Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Reformation and counter-Reformation, 1500-1700 -- The scientific revolution, 1500-1700 -- The French religious wars, 1562-98 -- The rise of the Dutch Republic, 1567-1795 -- Commerce and slavery in the Atlantic, 1600-1800 -- Trade and dominion: Europe and the east, 1600-1800 -- The two cardinals: Richelieu and Mazarin -- The Stuarts and the English Revolution, 1603-88 -- Colonial North America, 1612-1763 -- Russia of the early Romanovs, 1613-1796 -- The Thirty Years War, 1618-48 -- The age of Louis XIV, 1643-1715 -- Frederick the Great and Prussia, 1712-86 -- The Enlightenment, 1697-1800 -- Britain: the long 18th century -- The American Revolution, 1761-91 -- The French Revolution, 1789-95 -- Napoleon and the struggle for Europe, 1796-1815 -- Revolution and counter-Revolution in Europe, 1815-48 -- The 1848 revolutions -- The birth of industrial society in Britain, 1776-1851 -- Democracy in America, 1791-1861 -- The American Civil War, 1861-5 -- Reform in Britain, 1776-1865 -- American and the world, 1783-1914 -- Anti-semitism and zionism, 1835-1914 -- Democracy in America, 1865-1917 -- Democracy in Britain, 1865-1914 -- Right and left in Europe, 1850-1914 -- Imperialism, 1830-1914 -- War and peace, 1853-1914 -- World War I, 1914-18 -- The Russian Revolution, 1914-24 -- Stalinism and Maoism, 1924-40 -- Fascism and National Socialism, 1919-39 -- America: boom and bust, 1919-39 -- Britain between the wars, 1918-39 -- Imperialism and nationalism, 1914-45 -- The post-war settlement and after, 1918-29 -- The road to war, 1929-39 -- Crimes against humanity, 1939-45 -- World War II, 1939-45 -- End of Empire, 1945-94 -- The Cold War, 1945-89 -- The Communist world, 1945-2001 -- The United States since 1945 -- Britain since 1945 -- Middle East vortex, 1948-2003 -- Globalization.