Encyclopedia of History: From the origins of humans to the modern day

by Miles Kelly Publishing, Philip Steele (Consultant)

Discover key events in world history from when humans first appeared right through to the present day. Spread across seven sections, this book will guide you through prehistory, ancient civilizations, wars, revolution, reformations, ground breaking inventions and industrial advances.

Genres: History

512 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2015

About the author

Miles Kelly is an independent UK children's book publisher, producing high-quality, affordable books for kids. The team's ethos is to create 'children's books to inspire and share' that reach as many children as possible, spreading the joy of reading. The company has more than 400 titles in print, for kids aged 3–12 years, including non-fiction books packed with awesome facts and dramatic photography, original illustrated picture books, preschool flashcards and workbooks, and classic illustrated children's fiction. Among the bestsellers are the hugely successful 100 Facts series, now with over 80 titles available, great-value bumper fiction and non-fiction books, and the much-loved Convertibles – books that fold out into vehicles or fold flat into playmats. There really is something for every child.

Reviews

[Michie Jaay · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It included so much more than I got to learn in history class, and Ive been talking about it non-stop. I love the bullet point designed summaries of every major, or noticeable event in history. I also was very happy that the book seems written extremely unbiased, and for things we can’t prove and just guess it says ‘probably’ instead of teaching theories as facts, it just says everything worth knowing, in summary. I plan on getting other books to learn in more detail about certain events, but this summarized version helped me get the general idea of most things to see what really sparks my interest + the short and to the point digestible summaries really helped me read more.

Other points:

One thing I have to add, is my book is only 362 pages, not the 500-something this listing says. I just subtracted the pages of my book from the pages on this listing and count them as read so I could update my reading progress properly.

This book took me 10~ hours to read. I’m a fast reader, but I tried to move slow to try and retain the information. Just in case anyone thought the book was hard to read by my long read time, I simply only am able to read 25~ minutes a day as of right now. If I was able, I would have read it quicker, as I did really want too.

[Nguyen Harley Phuong · Rating 5 out of 5]

briefing about human history from sapients to 2000s.
mostly focus on the wars in Europe countries, need more content for Africa, Asia,… also artistic cultural samples.
what I see from here is the history was written by blood and all kingdoms were ruined by stupid rulers.

[Edward Stilon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think that this is an excellent history book. It taught me a lot and that is for sure. Definitely a useful reference book.

[Mohammad Sadiq · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is great and simple to know about

[Myrtle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is your average history book.

[moonyphase · Rating 3 out of 5]

your kind of basic-mediocre history book for beginner