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WORLD HISTORY

INTRODUCTION

This page, unlike the 'travel' pages, is devoted to look at why the world appears the way that it does, rather than simply how it looks. As my book mentions at some length, the notion of history is not a fixed, perennial and immutable concept. Like time itself, it is somewhat artificial and therefore maleable - and apt to be construed or misconstrued according to one's intentions. Tied in with the scientific developments of 16th century Europe, history and its sibling 'progress' were used as a justification for wide social and political changes.

At a personal level, one person's concept of history can easily be another's fiction. Witness the division between scientists and creationists as an example. Then there is the relationship between the individual and his or her experiences, which has provided a livelihood for priests, psychologists and lawyers - amongst others - for even longer. This is because we take certain concepts - including people, places and events - for granted, as though they were fixed and immutable. In fact, reality shows quite the opposite.

My book incorporates a timeline that demonstrates this point somewhat more precisely. Everything notion that we currently take for granted - religion, history, time, causality, logic, individuality, psychology, and so on - has emerged at some point in the past, only to be presented and ingrained into each of us as something palpable and real. Within this context, history is not (just) a matter of people, places and events - it is a matter of the realities that surrounded them.

Readers should note that a search-engine for biographies is located here.

LINKS

• Archaeology - ArchNet - WWW Virtual Library
• Magic & Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography.com
• The Calendar Zone -- Bringing Order to Calendrical Chaos!
• Convicts To Australia ... A Guide to Researching Convict Ancestors
• The Encyclopedia Mythica
• Ethnologue, 13th edition, 1996
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• GeoHistory
• GeoHistory - links
• Geologic Time
• HISTORICAL TEXT ARCHIVE
• World History
• Institute and Museum of History of Science - Filorence
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
• Great Speeches - by Elycia's Real Audio and the Chicago Law Network
• The Tree of Life Home Page
• The Venerable Bede Internet Sites

THE FUTURE

Using the commonly-held notions of time and its implications, if we have a past then we must have a future - and this section is devoted to it. Most of the links centre around the forthcoming millenium, but I will add more wide-ranging links as I find them.

LINKS

• Centre for Millenial Studies
• Everything 2000 - Homepage
• Greenwich 2000
• Worldwide Observatory of the Year 2000

MULTIMEDIA

• Post Modernism - an Open University lecture in Real Audio
• Sociology - an Open University lecture in Real Audio

NEWSGROUPS

• alt.history
• alt.history.ancient-worlds
• alt.history.future
• alt.history.what-if
• soc.history
• soc.history.ancient
• soc.history.what-if
• sshe.curr.history.european
• sshe.curr.history.non-west
• sshe.curr.history.us

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