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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution (Pt. 1)
The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up–to–date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an engaging and humorous graphic style, Larry Gonick covers the history, personalities and big topics that have shaped our universe over the past five centuries, including the Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the evolution of political, social, economic, and scientific thought, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, the Cold War, Globalization––and much more.
Volume I of the Cartoon History of the Modern World picks up from Gonick's award winning Cartoon History of the Universe Series. That series began with the Big Bang and ended with Christopher Columbus sailing for the New World. This book starts off with peoples that Columbus "discovered" and ends with the U.S. Revolution.
Customer Reviews:
A terrific return to this series by Mr. Gonick
By David Liao "Taospark" - March 19, 2007The Good: The story redistributes usual takes on the Age of Exploration by focusing on Cortes and Meso-American while taking some undeserved focus off Columbus and Magellan, both of whom are traditionally used as landmarks in the timeline. The Lutheran Reformation and the effects it creates are explained fairly well for the uninitiated as well as the first two modern European attempts at republicanism, namely Cromwell's Commonwealth (although it was almost a veiled monarchy) and the Netherlands. The sections about the intricate politics during Carlos V's reign was an especially nice part of this.
The coverage of America's effect on European politics, as well as India's role in all this is a VERY welcome departure from typical accounts, which shows that Mr. Gonick's work isn't revisionist at all- it's accurately world-oriented. But credit is still given to the West's new Enlightenment-era thinkers as well as the more immediate effects of their theorizing, something that... read more
A rare mistake for Gonick!
By Dorothy Carter "French Prof" - February 23, 2007Informative and funny, but Larry Gonick made a rather odd mistake. He seems to have conflated Thomas More and Thomas Becket. More was not Archbishop of Canterbury, he was Lord Chancellor. He wasn't stabbed to death as Gonick shows--Henry VIII had him beheaded.
Another weird and hilarious installment
By Tim Lieder "Founder of Dybbuk Press" - February 11, 2007I read this book through in one day and still want more. The complicated history of diplomacy between England, Spain and France continues to intrigue as most of the reversals and diplomatic snafus were probably too complicated for such an endeavor. I was a little disappointed to see Queen Elizabeth given such a small part on the world stage that Gonick draws. I also felt that there could have been more material on the pre-Columbus Indians, but I was happy to enjoy the background on the Aztecs and Mayans at least.
With every book in this series I look forward to three things 1. Learning material that I never knew, 2. Reading about material that I knew already but from a completely different perspective and 3. the humor which runs the gammit from hilarious to juvenile. And this book definitely delivers. I knew that the Netherlands played a role in the rise of modern commerce from Neal Stephenson's books and I knew about the tulip crisis but I didn't know about the ways the... read more
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