The Struggle of the Nations [Christmas Summary Classics]

The Struggle of the Nations [Christmas Summary Classics]

by Gaston Maspero
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/12/2012

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Christmas Summary Classics

This series contains summary of Classic books such as Emma, Arne, Arabian Nights, Pride and prejudice, Tower of London, Wealth of Nations etc. Each book is specially crafted after reading complete book in less than 30 pages. One who wants to get joy of book reading especially in very less time can go for it.


The Struggle of the Nations

Maspero in this work gives us the second volume of his great historical trilogy. He shows in parallel views the part played in the history of the ancient world by the first Chaldæan Empire, by Syria, by the Hyksos, or shepherd kings, of Egypt, and by the first Cossæan kings who established the greatness of Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire. The great Theban dynasty is then exhibited in its romantic rise under the Pharaohs. Maspero writes not as a mere chronicler or reciter of events, but as a philosophical historian. He makes the reader understand how fatally the chronic militarism of these competing empires drained each of its manhood and brought Babylon and Assyria simultaneously into a hopeless condition of national anæmia. Equally pathetic is the picture drawn of the gradual but sure decay of the grand empire of the Pharaohs. Maspero, with masterly skill, passes a processional of these despots before our eyes.

ISBN:
1230000034854
1230000034854
Category:
Encyclopaedias & reference works
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-12-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Zhingoora Books

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