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Non campus mentis : world history according to college students / compiled by Anders Henriksson.
Van Pelt Library PN6231.B8 H46 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henriksson, Anders.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor.
- History--Humor.
- History.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 145 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Workman Pub., 2001.
- Summary:
- From college students' own authentic and inimitable voices comes a collection of bloopers, malapropisms, revisionist hypotheses, and creative interpretations of history, the subject that "grinds our critical, seething minds to a halt."
- Contents:
- 1 The Historian's Task: Hindsight into the Future 1
- 2 The Dawn of Time: The Stoned Age 3
- 3 The Mists of Antiquity: The Joy of Flooding 5
- 4 The Classical Age: Thucydides Meets the Mouse of History 11
- 5 The Grandeur That Was Rome: Me Too, Brutus! 17
- 6 The Rise of Christianity and the Fall of Rome: The Immaculate Contraption 23
- 7 The Feudal World: The Rise of the Manurial System 27
- 8 Church and State in Medieval Europe: Vacant Bishop Bricks 31
- 9 The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Plague of Boobs 39
- 10 The Renaissance: The Grits of Change 45
- 11 The Reformation: The Perils of Pope Clementine 51
- 12 The Age of Absolutism: Musketeers and Round Ones 57
- 13 The Enlightenment: The Invention of the Newton 63
- 14 The Age of Revolution: The French Demand Fraternities 67
- 15 The Industrial Revolution: The Fast Paste of Change 73
- 16 Political Conflict in the Nineteenth Century: Anarchs and the Power Serge 81
- 17 America from Crisis to Triumph: Custard's Last Stand 87
- 18 The Birth of Modernism: Splatterism and the Twelve-Moan Scale 91
- 19 Imperialism and International Rivalries: From the Missionary Position to Sweet Relief 95
- 20 The Catastrophe of 1914: An Unthinkable War Becomes Thinkable 103
- 21 The Russian Revolution: Rasputin Meets the Zeitgeist 107
- 22 The Inter-War Era: Just Give Peas a Chance 111
- 23 World War II: Hitler Becomes Depressed 119
- 24 The Cold War: The Morels of the Story 125
- 25 A New World Order: Tea with Dim El Sum 133
- 26 The End of History: The Age of Now 137
- Postscript: The Meaning of All This 139
- Quiz: So You Think You're So Smart 143.
- ISBN:
- 0761122745
- OCLC:
- 47243835
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