About this app
The word history comes ultimately from Ancient Greek historía, meaning "inquiry," "knowledge from inquiry," or "judge." However, the question of what kind of inquiries historians pose, what knowledge they seek, and how they interpret the evidence that they find remains controversial. Historians draw conclusions from past approaches to history, but in the end, they always write in the context of their own time, current dominant ideas of how to interpret the past, and even subjective viewpoints. Furthermore, current events and developments often trigger which past events, historical periods, or geographical regions are seen as critical and thus should be investigated. Finally, historical studies are designed to provide specific lessons for societies today. In the words of Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and historian, "All history is contemporary history."All events that are remembered and preserved in some original form constitute the historical record. The task of historians is to identify the sources that can most usefully contribute to the production of accurate accounts of the past. These sources, known are primary sources or evidence, were produced at the time under study and constitute the foundation of historical inquiry. Ideally, a historian will use as many available primary sources as can be accessed, but in practice, sources may have been destroyed or may not be available for research. In some cases, the only eyewitness reports of an event may be memoirs, autobiographies, or oral interviews taken years later.
Table Of Content :
1tThe Study of History and the Rise of Civilization
2tAncient Mesopotamian Civilizations
3tEarly Civilizations
4tAncient Egypt
5tEarly Chinese Dynasties
6tEarly Civilizations in the Indian Subcontinent
7tAncient Greece and the Hellenistic World
8tThe Roman World
9tThe Byzantine Empire
10tThe Rise and Spread of Islam
11tThe Middle Ages in Europe
12tThe Development of Russia
13tThe Mongol Empire
14tChinese Dynasties
15tAfrican Civilizations
16tCivilizations in the Americas
17tThe Renaissance
18tThe Rise of Nation-States
19tThe Age of Enlightenment
20tThe Protestant Reformation
21tEnlightened Despots
22tThe French Revolution
23tNapoleon
24tPost-Napoleonic Europe
25tThe Industrial Revolution
26tChange in the Americas
27tEuropean Imperialism in East Asia
28tThe Scramble for Africa
29tWorld War I
30tThe Interwar Period
31tWorld War II
32tThe Cold War
33tPost-Colonial Africa
34tThe Middle East after the Ottoman Empire
35tEast Asia after World War II
36tSouth America and Latin America in the Cold War
37tThe Long Decade (1989-2001)
38tThe 21st Century
The eBooks app features allows the user to :
Custom Fonts
Custom Text Size
Themes / Day mode / Night mode
Text Highlighting
List / Edit / Delete Highlights
Handle Internal and External Links
Portrait / Landscape
Reading Time Left / Pages left
In-App Dictionary
Media Overlays (Sync text rendering with audio playback)
TTS - Text to Speech Support
Book Search
Add Notes to a Highlight
Last Read Position Listener
Horizontal reading
Distraction Free Reading
Credits :
Boundless (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0))
FolioReader, Heberti Almeida (CodeToArt Technology)
Cover by Designed by new7ducks / Freepik
Pustaka Dewi, www.pustakadewi.com
