An edition of Atlas of history's greatest disasters & mistakes
(2013)
Atlas of history's greatest disasters & mistakes
the 50 most significant moments explored in words and maps
by Tim Cooke
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Atlas of history's greatest disasters & mistakes: the 50 most significant moments explored in words and maps
2013, Quantum
in English
184573534X 9781845735340
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Table of Contents
ANCIENT WORLD:
The failed pyramid (the "bent pyramid")
A new religion (Egypt, reign of Amenhotep IV)
Fall of Croesus (King of Lydia in Anatolia)
Battle of Lake Trasimene (Hannibal and the ambush of Roman troops at Lake Trasimene
The Ides of March (assassination of Julius Caesar)
Destruction of Pompeii
Fall of Rome
MIDDLE AGES:
Vikings in Greenland
King John's disaster (Magna Carta)
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Black Death
Peasant's Revolt (England, 1381)
Battle of Agincourt
New World (Christopher Columbus)
Bonfire of the Vanities (Florence, Italy and Savonarola)
EARLY MODERN WORLD:
Cortes and the Aztec
End of an Empire (Spanish and the Inca)
Lady Jane Grey
Roanoke, the lost colony (Roanoke Island, North Carolina)
Spanish Armarda
Henry Hudson (quest for the North-West Passage)
Great fire of London
Easter Island
Salem witch trials
Scilly Naval disaster (Scilly Isles, England)
American Independence
NINETEENTH CENTURY:
Napoleon in Russia
Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War)
The Great Stink (sewers and cholera, London, 1858)
Battle of Little Big Horn
Commercial disaster (Western Union declines to buy the rights to the telephone)
Ghost dance (prophet Jack Wilson and a new religion for Native Americans 1880s, Battle of Wounded Knee)
TWENTIETH CENTURY:
San Francisco earthquake (April 1906)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire (turning point for worker safety, Lower Manhattan, 1911)
Sinking of the Titanic
Gallipoli
Battle of the Somme
Prohibition
Wall Street Crash
Munich Conference (Chamberlain/Hitler and the Munich Agreement, 1938)
Pearl Harbour
Operation Barbarossa (Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941)
Dieppe Raid (Dieppe, France, Operation Jubilee, 1942)
CONTEMPORARY WORLD:
Space Shuttle Challenger
Alaska oil spill (grounding of Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound)
Indian Ocean Tsunami (Boxing Day, 2004)
Dot.Com Crash
Hurricane Katrina (Gulf Coast, USA, 2005)
Banking crisis (World Financial Crisis, 2008).
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Includes index.
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