The Householder's Collection—The Story of Mankind

Author: Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Features: Hendrik Willem van Loon published over thirty books in his lifetime, single-handedly recounting almost all aspects of human history. Such a monumental undertaking completed by one person is truly admirable for his courage to challenge the finite with the infinite. Van Loon was not an obscure theorist, but he certainly had his own system and ideas. His works include The Liberation of Man, The Story of Mankind, The Beginnings of Civilization, Miracle and Man, The Story of the Bible, The Story of Inventions, The Human Habitat, and The Life of Rembrandt among others. The topics he chose are essentially centered around the fundamental questions of human survival and development, with the spirit of reason, tolerance, and progress running through them. The main content of this book includes the following chapters: Chaos, Man at the Beginning, Prehistoric Man, Pictographs, the Nile River, the Story of Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Sumerians, Moses, the Phoenicians, the Indo-Europeans, the Aegean, the Greeks, Ancient Greek Cities, Greek Autonomy, the Life of the Greeks, Greek Drama, the Persian Wars, the Rivalry between Athens and Sparta, Alexander the Great, Overview, Rome and Carthage, the Rise of the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire, Joshua of Nazareth, the Decline of the Roman Empire, the Rise of the Church, Muhammad, Charlemagne, the North Europeans, Feudalism, the Knighthood System, etc.