Lessons from History

In 1968, Will Durant and Ariel Durant, after completing their monumental History of Civilization, a collection acclaimed by tica and the public, decided to provide readers with a compendium of their work. An overview of las trends and lessons drawn over five thousand years of world history and examined from twelve perspectives: geography, biology, race, character, morality, religion, economics, socialism, government, war, growth and decay, and progress.