TY - BOOK AU - Furtado,Peter AU - Furtado,Peter TI - History day by day: 366 voices from the past SN - 9780500294963 AV - D21.3 .F87 2019 U1 - 909 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, New York PB - Thames & Hudson KW - History KW - Miscellanea KW - Quotations KW - fast KW - World history KW - Trivia and miscellanea N1 - Previously published in the United Kingdom under the under the title "History's daybook"; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - From the founding of Rome to the twenty-first century's war on terror, History Day by Day presents an original perspective on over two millennia of human history through the medium of 366 quotations that offer a window in the past. Each is tied to a momentous occasion, bringing it to life with eyewitness accounts and a chronicler's flair. Here is Joan of Arc, Julius Caesar, Galileo and Gandhi, as well as revolutions and discoveries, the joyful and the grief-stricken. Furtado places events in context, resulting in an instructive and entertaining panorama of world history ER -