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1001 días que cambiaron el mundo
Los 1001 días y hechos que cambiaron el transcurso de la historia universal. 1001 días que cambiaron el mundo documenta aquellos acontecimientos que son considerados verdaderos hitos en la historia de la humanidad debido a los cambios drásticos y trascendentes que produjeron en la vida humana. Numerosos conflictos armados, desastres naturales, alianzas decisivas y memorables descubrimientos y exploraciones han provocado, en épocas y sociedades bien distintas, auténticos giros en el transcurso de la historia. Algunos de estos sucesos son recientes como el ataque terrorista que el 11 de marzo de 2004 que sembró el pánico en las calles de en Madrid, el huracán Katrina que arrasó el estado de Nueva Orleans, o la ejecución de dictador iraquí, Saddam Hussein, el 30 de diciembre de 2006. Sin embargo, hay otros acontecimientos que, bien sea por su lejanía en el tiempo o por haber tenido una repercusión más local, conviene a veces rescatar del «olvido». En este sentido, ¿quién podría narrar lo que ocurrió el 24 de agosto del año 1979?, ¿qué obra de arte se mostró por primera vez el 8 de septiembre de 1504? o ¿quiénes fueron expulsados de España el 9 de abril de 1609? Todos estos eventos han resultado de gran importancia en el transcurso de nuestra historia, y en este libro encontraremos respuestas claras y rigurosas que nos ayudarán a entender numerosos aspectos de las relaciones internacionales contemporáneas.
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First published October 1, 2008
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September 5, 2015
A more accurate title would be 1001 days that shaped the western world. It's a hard task indeed to wittle down the history of the world to 1000 key events, but this book gives a large weighting to European events such as the Roman Empire to the detriment of other Equally important civilisations like China and Mesopotamia. The author has also fallen victim to the prejudices of modern times. for example I don't think that the death of Michael Jackson will turn out to be a day that shaped the world, but the author has then failed to mention most key technological leaps forwards such as the invention of paper and printing presses. Having said that this is still an interesting book, although it is probably one to dip in and out of instad of reading from cover to cover. I particularly liked the one page summary of each event, which gave a concise and well researched summary of these events.
September 8, 2018
This fully updated edition(2012) is a magnificently illustrated 960-page guide to 1001 significant events that have influenced human history from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago to the Euro Debt Crisis of 2011-2012.
Compiled by Peter Furtado, former editor of History Today, and written by an international team of historians, journalists and scientists the book is divided into seven periods: 'Big Bang - 1 B.C.E.; '1-999'; '1000-1499'; '1500-1699'; '1700-1899'; '1900-1949' & '1950-Present' followed by a useful glossary.
'1001 Days That Shaped The World' is an endlessly fascinating and enlightening book that will inspire many to take a deeper interest in history.
Compiled by Peter Furtado, former editor of History Today, and written by an international team of historians, journalists and scientists the book is divided into seven periods: 'Big Bang - 1 B.C.E.; '1-999'; '1000-1499'; '1500-1699'; '1700-1899'; '1900-1949' & '1950-Present' followed by a useful glossary.
'1001 Days That Shaped The World' is an endlessly fascinating and enlightening book that will inspire many to take a deeper interest in history.
February 3, 2022
Hard to rate ofcourse since it's a reference book. I skipped the events that were less interesting to me, and learned the basics from events that did interest me.
For some events, the description is way too short, but then I guess it encourages readers to learn more about that specific event in other books. Other events were rather boring to me personally, like the Xth time a country was invaded.
I do also feel like some huge events are missing (the birth of the internet and the rise of social media come to mind), compared to many similar events (maybe mentioning all of the crusades once instead of having them all separate could prevent that).
Despite my complaints, I really loved reading / skimming this book. Fun to flip through, learn new things and be reminded of past events.
For some events, the description is way too short, but then I guess it encourages readers to learn more about that specific event in other books. Other events were rather boring to me personally, like the Xth time a country was invaded.
I do also feel like some huge events are missing (the birth of the internet and the rise of social media come to mind), compared to many similar events (maybe mentioning all of the crusades once instead of having them all separate could prevent that).
Despite my complaints, I really loved reading / skimming this book. Fun to flip through, learn new things and be reminded of past events.
July 1, 2018
Istorijos įvykių nuo pasaulio sukūrimo iki 2015 metų trumpi komentarai ir bandymas sieti su geresniu pasaulio suvokimu. Deja, tas bandymas nėra pavykęs, nes trūksta išsamesnės analizės ir sąsajų su žmonijos raida.
November 22, 2012
What an absolutely wonderful book and a pleasure to read. This book has kept me engrossed for almost a year, reading just a few pages each day and having just finished it today, I can't say enough good things about it.
It is quite remarkable, how the authors of the book manage to introduce historical events in a way that is both informative and fascinating. Unlike some history books, this book steers clear of tediously long lists of dates and instead fleshes out the circumstances of the time and characters who set things in motion. It is quite admirable, how with just a few paragraphs dedicated to each event (or "day", as the book sets out to present them), the authors manage to conjure up lively images of events past and really help the reader understand what was going on. I was also pleasantly surprised to constantly find additional information about events I thought I already had a good grasp of. Neither was there ever a page without a picture to succinctly illustrate at least one event in question.
All in all, not only is this one of the best history books I have ever read, it is one of the best popular science books I have read, period. Five out of five stars for a superb effort.
It is quite remarkable, how the authors of the book manage to introduce historical events in a way that is both informative and fascinating. Unlike some history books, this book steers clear of tediously long lists of dates and instead fleshes out the circumstances of the time and characters who set things in motion. It is quite admirable, how with just a few paragraphs dedicated to each event (or "day", as the book sets out to present them), the authors manage to conjure up lively images of events past and really help the reader understand what was going on. I was also pleasantly surprised to constantly find additional information about events I thought I already had a good grasp of. Neither was there ever a page without a picture to succinctly illustrate at least one event in question.
All in all, not only is this one of the best history books I have ever read, it is one of the best popular science books I have read, period. Five out of five stars for a superb effort.
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January 9, 2016
Very good book that embraces every period of history. But only trough a American/British point of view...
Gess history is about perspective too.
Gess history is about perspective too.
November 2, 2011
Eurocentric.
January 11, 2021
I've read a book “1001 days that shaped the world” (Octopus Publishing Group Limited, General Editor Peter Furtado, 960 pages) recently and was quite surprised at how many miscellaneous errors there were. Here is some of them.
A. Distortion of facts.
p. 511 “Death ( of A. Pushkin) at the age of thirty-nine ...”. In fact the great Russian poet A. Pushkin (06/06/1799 – 02/10/1837) was mortally wounded in a duel at the age of 37.
p. 565 “... Mississippi did not ratify it (amendment dealing with the protection of the civil rights of slaves) until 1995.” In fact the amendment was officially registered in Mississippi 02/07/2013. Only since then slavery in the USA was completely abolished.
p. 621 “... tsarist secret police, the Okhrana...”. In fact the police was called Okhranka.
p. 642 “ Princip was a Serbian nationalist and member of a terrorist organization called “Black Hand”...”. “It (“Black Hand”) was led by a Serbian secret intelligence colonel...”.
In fact, the “Serbian Nationalist” Gavrilo Princip was born in western Bosnia, studied in the capital of Bosnia, was a member of the Mlada (Young) Bosnia organization, and gave his life to liberate his homeland Bosnia from Austria-Hungary.
The lies about the Princip's membership in the Black Hand organization, led by Colonel of the Serbian secret service Apis, is needed to accuse Serbia of the murder of Archduke Ferdinand and justify the attack of Austria-Hungary on Serbia in 1914.
p. 703 “... Grigori Kinoviev and Lev Kamenev...”. In fact one of those politicians was Grigori Zinoviev.
B. Incorrect terminology.
p. 62 “ … Arhimedes ... could determine the gold density of the crown by weighing it in water.” In fact Arhimedes needed to determine not the gold density, but the volume of the crown. Gold density was already known.
p. 666 “The weakness of German communism...”. “German communism” is a completely wrong term because communism never existed in any country in the world.
C. False interpretation of historical facts.
p. 240 “... Mehmed assembled 80,000 Turks and Serbs and a powerful fleet to attack Constantinople.” In reality Turks forcibly removed boys from Serbian families and raised them in Turkey as soldiers. Those soldiers (Janissaries) were Serbian by birth but they forgot their language, their culture and their faith, and became turkish muslims. The statement that Serbs helped Turkey to conquer Byzantium is absolutely inconsistent with historical facts.
p. 907 “... Srebrenica was declared a safe area by the UN, but in July 1995 was taken by the army of Republika Sepska, representing Bosnian Serbs. In the days that followed more than 8,000 Muslims were massacred.” Everyone knows that half truth is untruth. The second hidden part of the truth is that in 1992-1995 about 2,380 Serbs including the elderly, women and children were killed by muslim terrorists in the area of Srebrenica. Their houses and churches were burned. The heads of the executed were hung on stakes to intimidate the remaining Serbs. Serbian women were raped. In 1995, the army of Republika Sepska stopped the mass destruction of its people. As a result of following ethnic cleansing about 500 - 1,000 unarmed Muslims were shot. However the largest Muslim cemetery of the enclave has no more than 3,000 graves. Despite all efforts to find other 5,000 bodies of the executed were in vain although 25 years have passed since that event. This fact makes the manipulation of numbers suspect.
p. 935 “... the separatists and Russian forces seized Crimea... and the region was annexed...”. In fact, the decision to join Russia was made by the parliament of the republic Crimea and then approved at a referendum. Thus, the people of Crimea exercised their right to self-determination. As it is well known, ultra nationalists who came to power in Ukraine prohibit the use of the Russian language in public activities and in educational institutions for millions of Ukrainian citizens for whom Russian is their native language. Thus nationalists violate the rights of Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine. The same fate awaited the inhabitants of Crimea, most of whom were Russians. Therefore they decided to join Russia. Thus it was not the annexation of the peninsula, but the voluntary accession of the republic to the Russian Federation.
P.S. In 1999 NATO nonstop bombarded Serbia for almost three months. For the first time in recent history white Christians in the center of Europe were bombed. As a result of the unpunished bombing from a height inaccessible to air defense of the country, over 2,500 civilians were killed and over 10,000 people were injured. Kindergartens, schools, hospitals, bridges ... were destroyed although they were not military targets. NATO used banned cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs to not just kill people and destroy the country's infrastructure but also to poison the soil and water with radionuclides. The consequence of this barbarism is the growth of cancer in Serbia.
Can the authors of the book “1001 days that shaped the world” be trusted if they ignored one of the most striking and dramatic event in modern history of humanity? The Hungarian proverb answers this rhetorical question: “Those who trust are happy but doubters are wise.”
Aleksandr Sorokin
A. Distortion of facts.
p. 511 “Death ( of A. Pushkin) at the age of thirty-nine ...”. In fact the great Russian poet A. Pushkin (06/06/1799 – 02/10/1837) was mortally wounded in a duel at the age of 37.
p. 565 “... Mississippi did not ratify it (amendment dealing with the protection of the civil rights of slaves) until 1995.” In fact the amendment was officially registered in Mississippi 02/07/2013. Only since then slavery in the USA was completely abolished.
p. 621 “... tsarist secret police, the Okhrana...”. In fact the police was called Okhranka.
p. 642 “ Princip was a Serbian nationalist and member of a terrorist organization called “Black Hand”...”. “It (“Black Hand”) was led by a Serbian secret intelligence colonel...”.
In fact, the “Serbian Nationalist” Gavrilo Princip was born in western Bosnia, studied in the capital of Bosnia, was a member of the Mlada (Young) Bosnia organization, and gave his life to liberate his homeland Bosnia from Austria-Hungary.
The lies about the Princip's membership in the Black Hand organization, led by Colonel of the Serbian secret service Apis, is needed to accuse Serbia of the murder of Archduke Ferdinand and justify the attack of Austria-Hungary on Serbia in 1914.
p. 703 “... Grigori Kinoviev and Lev Kamenev...”. In fact one of those politicians was Grigori Zinoviev.
B. Incorrect terminology.
p. 62 “ … Arhimedes ... could determine the gold density of the crown by weighing it in water.” In fact Arhimedes needed to determine not the gold density, but the volume of the crown. Gold density was already known.
p. 666 “The weakness of German communism...”. “German communism” is a completely wrong term because communism never existed in any country in the world.
C. False interpretation of historical facts.
p. 240 “... Mehmed assembled 80,000 Turks and Serbs and a powerful fleet to attack Constantinople.” In reality Turks forcibly removed boys from Serbian families and raised them in Turkey as soldiers. Those soldiers (Janissaries) were Serbian by birth but they forgot their language, their culture and their faith, and became turkish muslims. The statement that Serbs helped Turkey to conquer Byzantium is absolutely inconsistent with historical facts.
p. 907 “... Srebrenica was declared a safe area by the UN, but in July 1995 was taken by the army of Republika Sepska, representing Bosnian Serbs. In the days that followed more than 8,000 Muslims were massacred.” Everyone knows that half truth is untruth. The second hidden part of the truth is that in 1992-1995 about 2,380 Serbs including the elderly, women and children were killed by muslim terrorists in the area of Srebrenica. Their houses and churches were burned. The heads of the executed were hung on stakes to intimidate the remaining Serbs. Serbian women were raped. In 1995, the army of Republika Sepska stopped the mass destruction of its people. As a result of following ethnic cleansing about 500 - 1,000 unarmed Muslims were shot. However the largest Muslim cemetery of the enclave has no more than 3,000 graves. Despite all efforts to find other 5,000 bodies of the executed were in vain although 25 years have passed since that event. This fact makes the manipulation of numbers suspect.
p. 935 “... the separatists and Russian forces seized Crimea... and the region was annexed...”. In fact, the decision to join Russia was made by the parliament of the republic Crimea and then approved at a referendum. Thus, the people of Crimea exercised their right to self-determination. As it is well known, ultra nationalists who came to power in Ukraine prohibit the use of the Russian language in public activities and in educational institutions for millions of Ukrainian citizens for whom Russian is their native language. Thus nationalists violate the rights of Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine. The same fate awaited the inhabitants of Crimea, most of whom were Russians. Therefore they decided to join Russia. Thus it was not the annexation of the peninsula, but the voluntary accession of the republic to the Russian Federation.
P.S. In 1999 NATO nonstop bombarded Serbia for almost three months. For the first time in recent history white Christians in the center of Europe were bombed. As a result of the unpunished bombing from a height inaccessible to air defense of the country, over 2,500 civilians were killed and over 10,000 people were injured. Kindergartens, schools, hospitals, bridges ... were destroyed although they were not military targets. NATO used banned cluster bombs and depleted uranium bombs to not just kill people and destroy the country's infrastructure but also to poison the soil and water with radionuclides. The consequence of this barbarism is the growth of cancer in Serbia.
Can the authors of the book “1001 days that shaped the world” be trusted if they ignored one of the most striking and dramatic event in modern history of humanity? The Hungarian proverb answers this rhetorical question: “Those who trust are happy but doubters are wise.”
Aleksandr Sorokin
October 22, 2022
Do Big Bang a Obama, Peter Furtado apresenta uma seleção das grandes datas - e dos grandes personagens- que marcaram a historia da humanidade. Mesmo se a lista tenta abranger os cinco continentes e se os descritivos são agradáveis de ler, a lista desses 1001 eventos deixa o leitor um pouco frustrado. Datas nem sempre justificadas, outras muito ligadas a visão norte americana dos autores, outras faltando pelas mesmas razões, erros nos fatos ou nos descritivos, a ambição do livro só foi muito parcialmente atingida.
December 15, 2019
Livro muito bom. Apesar de fazer recortes muito resumidos - justificável, já que falar sobre mais de 3 mil anos de história não deve ser fácil - não deixa de ser um livro bem interessante. O começo do livro não prende a atenção, mas, quando a história avança para os períodos que já tem bastantes registros, vai ficando melhor.
September 6, 2020
Het blijft een heerlijk naslagwerk om af en toe eens door te lezen. Aanrader voor elke geschiedenis liefhebber.
January 13, 2022
It’s all about wars. Especially the first half of the book, which goes up to 1700.
Scientific advancements don’t even start til the 18th century, when people stopped fighting….
Scientific advancements don’t even start til the 18th century, when people stopped fighting….
November 13, 2022
Good book but gives emphasis on the western history.
January 31, 2020
Now this was the book which I bought as soon as the sales agent rang my bell. After all I got this all color book for a whopping 84% discount. Coming to the book it is a collection of 1001 events from estimated time to actual dates which shaped our times and also the world we are living in. Post 1990 there weren't too many days that shaped the world after all everything is in limbo now. It was a nice thick book I would try to read some larger books but till then at 960 pages this would be one of the largest books which I ever read.
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in a while. I read almost all the genre but YA, Fantasy, Biographies are the most. My favorite series is, of course, Harry Potter but then there are many more books that I just adore. I have bookcases filled with books which are waiting to be read so can't stay and spend more time in this review, so remember I loved reading this and love reading more, you should also read what you love and then just Keep on Reading.
July 13, 2012
I am amazed I was able to get this book read. It is 941 pages long. I don't think I have ever read a book this long except the Bible. I started in May and ended July 13th. I really concentrated on it the last week.
It has been a desire of mine to read a world history book for many years to get an overall view of that subject. I started once, forty years ago, but never finished. That is one goal I have accomplished.
I enjoyed the author's format of breaking the history into days that it occurred on. I felt the author did an excellent job.
I learned a tremendous amount about things I was not aware and the ability to see it happening in sequence around the globe was very well done. I learned a lot about things I had never studied and even events that happened in my life.
I had a lot of satisfaction of having experienced this and having completed it. The previous four days have been a read-a-thon. I am glad I read it.
It has been a desire of mine to read a world history book for many years to get an overall view of that subject. I started once, forty years ago, but never finished. That is one goal I have accomplished.
I enjoyed the author's format of breaking the history into days that it occurred on. I felt the author did an excellent job.
I learned a tremendous amount about things I was not aware and the ability to see it happening in sequence around the globe was very well done. I learned a lot about things I had never studied and even events that happened in my life.
I had a lot of satisfaction of having experienced this and having completed it. The previous four days have been a read-a-thon. I am glad I read it.
July 12, 2022
I got this book many years ago and totally forgot about it... Shame on me. Such an interesting list of many events that made our wonderful (or is it?) world. I really like the fact that each event is explained in a half page. I learned so many things and hated so many people (all those wars, those killings and for what? but then nature takes its rights too with several natural disasters). By buying this book I should have known, but my only regret is that it is really aimed at Americans (and maybe British too) or really big countries. Europe is mainly represented by France, Italy, the UK and Germany... nothing happened in the rest of the continent? And sometimes some events receive two different entries (such as Dreyfus)... taking the spot of another interesting event that could have been included in the book instead...
November 3, 2013
This huge book marches through history, detailing certain historical days from the Big Bang 14 billion years ago through the death of Kim Jong Il on Dec. 17, 2011. That's a lot of special dates--1001, in fact! Of course, many of those daily headlines are disasters of various kinds--floods, hurricanes, killer earthquakes, etc. But some are triumphs of technology and human ingenuity, like the moon landing and the launch of the Hubble telescope.
The Index by Country helps make the pages more usable.
For the history buff fascinated by dates, this is THE BOOK!
The Index by Country helps make the pages more usable.
For the history buff fascinated by dates, this is THE BOOK!
March 7, 2012
I thought this book was awesome and so interesting. Every page was in color with a lot of pictures, and there were so many interesting tid bits and facts.
January 1, 2015
Good book that briefs on some of history's events.
September 23, 2013
Amazing overview/intro' to history. Loved.
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