WORLD HISTORY

The World History is really a world history. It is brief; it is frankly introductory; but it is, we believe, coherent. It does tell a running story of man all the way from the earliest age of hunters to the latest age of big business, from Neanderthalers and Cro-Magnons to Bolshevists and fascists. It does relate to the history of so-called Western civilization the history of China and Japan, of India, and of America (including not only Mayas, Aztees, and Incas, and colonial America, but also the revolutions in Latin America and the rise of the United States from independence to world power) Moreover, it does emphasize the cultural and social and economic, as well as the political, life of peoples throughout the ages and throughout the world. In picturing such a vast panorama, we have not attempted to cover the whole canvas with a mass of minute objects. We have sought rather to bring into clear and informing vision the main forces and especially the larger movements which, in our opinion, have contributed most to the world civilization of the present day. In other words, we have endeavored to furnish young students with a record of the past of the race which shall help to prepare them for intellingent life in the current world that is dynamic and not static. Within its compass, l

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