About Time -- How Long is History

Author: Mike Flanagan
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Time flies over our heads, but it leaves its shadow behind. In this book, we will follow the footsteps of historians. It's about time because it's related to the duration of historical events, whether they are big or small. Time is a very important part of history, but it is often lost in the hustle and bustle. We can't always experience history firsthand. Now we can, but we are still fooled by time. This book arranges historical events in order of time from short to long. We start with events that occurred in fractions of a second, and end with events that are still ongoing, lasting over 14 billion years. The middle part is the events we have chosen, when they happened, how long they lasted—for a brief review of the past. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima took only 43 seconds. In less than a minute, history was forever changed. In contrast, it took humans 355 years, 10 months, and 16 days to abolish slavery in the Americas. About Time arranges historically significant moments according to their duration—from shortest to longest, tracing nearly two hundred important historical events and presenting a previously unseen perspective on history, filled with precise details and little-known anecdotes.