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catalog contributor b11170430.
catalog contributor b11170431.
catalog created "1999.".
catalog date "1999".
catalog date "1999.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
catalog description "1781, Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis and George Washington, letters -- 1793, Paris, Marie Antoinette, letter -- 1793, Paris, Marie Antoinette's last supper -- 1794, Paris, Robespierre, address to the national convention -- 1796-1797, Edmund Burke, "A tremendous, unformed spectre" -- 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, An essay on the principle of population -- 1826, Mary Shelley, The last man -- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" -- 1835, the treaty of New Echota -- 1838, Cherokee nation, Evan Jones, "on the Trail of Tears" -- 1846-1847, Ireland, news accounts and letters, the Irish famine".
catalog description "1859, Charles Darwin, On the origin of species -- 1865, Richmond, Burton N. Harrison, Jefferson Davis' capture -- 1865, Mary Chesnut, fall of Richmond -- 1865, Richmond, George Cary Eggleston, A rebel's recollections -- 1867, Karl Marx, Das Kapital -- 1870-1871, Paris, Robert Sencourt, The life of Empress Eugénie -- 1870-1871, Paris, Archibald Forbes, dispatches to the London Daily News -- 1890, "Ghost dance song" -- 1898, C.P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the barbarians"".
catalog description "1944, Auschwitz, Tadeusz Borowski, "This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen" -- 1944, Primo Levi, survival in Auschwitz -- 1945, Hiroshima, John Hersey, Hiroshima -- 1945, Nagasaki, William L. Laurence, dispatch to the New York Times -- 1951, Hal Boyle, Washington under the bomb -- 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent spring -- 1975, Phnom Penh, Haing s. Ngor, the Khmer Rouge -- 1989, Peter Schneider, collapse of the Berlin wall -- 1989, Francis Fukuyama, "The end of history?"".
catalog description "1993-1996, Time/CNN poll, second coming of Jesus Christ -- Atlantic Monthly, newsstand blurb -- Bill Clinton, on "The coming anarchy" -- Books in Print, "The end of..." -- The Rapture index -- Is Bill Gates the next Antichrist? -- Press releases, the end in nearish!".
catalog description "79, Pompeii, Pliny, Vesuvius erupts -- Circa 90, Armageddon, John -- 410, Rome, Procopius, History of the wars -- 413, Rome, Saint Augustine, City of God -- 800, Óengus of Clonenagh, poem -- 1000, Ireland after the Vikings, anonymous poem -- 1099, Jerusalem, Fulcher of Chartres, Chronicle -- 1190, Joachim of Fiore, letter to all the faithful -- 1209, Beziers, Guillaume de Tudèle, Crusade against the Albigensians -- 1348, Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron -- Circa 1400, Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah -- 1453, Constantinople, ducas, Decline and fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks -- 1461, Fran ̧ois Villon, "Another Ballade".".
catalog description "End paper: "Predicted dates for the end of the world" -- Afterword: "The wreck of time" (II)".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
catalog description "Introduction by Simon Schama -- Foreword: "The wreck of time" (I)".
catalog description "Part I: the ruins of empires -- 3000 B.C.,Shurrupak, Epic of Gilgamesh -- 2000 B.C., Sodom, Genesis -- 1500 B.C., Atlantis, Plato, Temaeus -- 1250 B.C., Troy, Virgil, Aeneid -- Circa 600 B.C., Jerusalem, Isaiah -- 416 B.C., Melos, Thucydides, The history of the Peloponnesian War -- 146 B.C., Carthage, Polybius, Roman history -- Circa 100 B.C., Rome, Lucretius, On the nature of things -- 49 B.C., Rome, Lucan, The Civil War -- 30 A.D., Jerusalem, Mark -- 64, Rome, Suetonius, on Nero -- 70, Jerusalem, Josephus, The Jewish War".
catalog description "Part II: the fall of nations -- Late 1400s, Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks -- 1502, Christopher Columbus, Book of prophecies -- Early 1500s, Hispaniola, Bartoloḿe de Las Casas, A brief account of the destruction of the Indies -- 1527, Rome, Luigi Guicciardini, The sack of Rome -- 1555, Nostradamus, Oracles -- 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II -- Early 1600s, John Donne, Holy sonnet -- 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio medici -- 1649, London, anonymous, beheading of Charles I -- 1665, London, Daniel Defoe, A journal of the plague year -- 1745, Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- 1755, Lisbon, anonymous, the earthquake -- 1759, Voltaire, Candide -- 1755, Essaka, Olaudah Equiano, The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano".
catalog description "Part III: the twentieth century: the end in a void -- 1906, San Francisco, Jack London, dispatch to Collier's Weekly -- 1910, Henry Adams, entropy -- 1914, Louvain, Richard Harding Davis, dispatch to the New York Tribune -- 1917, The Hindenburg trench, Siegfried Sassoon -- 1917, St. Petersburg, John Reed, seizure of the winter palace -- 1918, Oswald Spengler, The decline of the West -- 1918-1919, Count Harry Kessler, revolution in Berlin -- 1923, Tokyo, London Spectator, earthquake -- 1929, New York, The New Yorker, crash of '29 -- 1930, Sigmund Freud, the death instinct -- 1931, H.L. Mencken, the Great Depression -- 1932, Martha's Yineyard, Henry Beetle Hough, epitaph".
catalog extent "xxii, 297 p. :".
catalog identifier "0312192649".
catalog issued "1999".
catalog issued "1999.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York : St. Martin's Press,".
catalog subject "909 21".
catalog subject "D24 .E53 1999".
catalog subject "Disasters.".
catalog subject "History Miscellanea.".
catalog subject "Prophecies.".
catalog tableOfContents "1781, Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis and George Washington, letters -- 1793, Paris, Marie Antoinette, letter -- 1793, Paris, Marie Antoinette's last supper -- 1794, Paris, Robespierre, address to the national convention -- 1796-1797, Edmund Burke, "A tremendous, unformed spectre" -- 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, An essay on the principle of population -- 1826, Mary Shelley, The last man -- 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" -- 1835, the treaty of New Echota -- 1838, Cherokee nation, Evan Jones, "on the Trail of Tears" -- 1846-1847, Ireland, news accounts and letters, the Irish famine".
catalog tableOfContents "1859, Charles Darwin, On the origin of species -- 1865, Richmond, Burton N. Harrison, Jefferson Davis' capture -- 1865, Mary Chesnut, fall of Richmond -- 1865, Richmond, George Cary Eggleston, A rebel's recollections -- 1867, Karl Marx, Das Kapital -- 1870-1871, Paris, Robert Sencourt, The life of Empress Eugénie -- 1870-1871, Paris, Archibald Forbes, dispatches to the London Daily News -- 1890, "Ghost dance song" -- 1898, C.P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the barbarians"".
catalog tableOfContents "1944, Auschwitz, Tadeusz Borowski, "This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen" -- 1944, Primo Levi, survival in Auschwitz -- 1945, Hiroshima, John Hersey, Hiroshima -- 1945, Nagasaki, William L. Laurence, dispatch to the New York Times -- 1951, Hal Boyle, Washington under the bomb -- 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent spring -- 1975, Phnom Penh, Haing s. Ngor, the Khmer Rouge -- 1989, Peter Schneider, collapse of the Berlin wall -- 1989, Francis Fukuyama, "The end of history?"".
catalog tableOfContents "1993-1996, Time/CNN poll, second coming of Jesus Christ -- Atlantic Monthly, newsstand blurb -- Bill Clinton, on "The coming anarchy" -- Books in Print, "The end of..." -- The Rapture index -- Is Bill Gates the next Antichrist? -- Press releases, the end in nearish!".
catalog tableOfContents "79, Pompeii, Pliny, Vesuvius erupts -- Circa 90, Armageddon, John -- 410, Rome, Procopius, History of the wars -- 413, Rome, Saint Augustine, City of God -- 800, Óengus of Clonenagh, poem -- 1000, Ireland after the Vikings, anonymous poem -- 1099, Jerusalem, Fulcher of Chartres, Chronicle -- 1190, Joachim of Fiore, letter to all the faithful -- 1209, Beziers, Guillaume de Tudèle, Crusade against the Albigensians -- 1348, Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron -- Circa 1400, Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah -- 1453, Constantinople, ducas, Decline and fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks -- 1461, Fran ̧ois Villon, "Another Ballade".".
catalog tableOfContents "End paper: "Predicted dates for the end of the world" -- Afterword: "The wreck of time" (II)".
catalog tableOfContents "Introduction by Simon Schama -- Foreword: "The wreck of time" (I)".
catalog tableOfContents "Part I: the ruins of empires -- 3000 B.C.,Shurrupak, Epic of Gilgamesh -- 2000 B.C., Sodom, Genesis -- 1500 B.C., Atlantis, Plato, Temaeus -- 1250 B.C., Troy, Virgil, Aeneid -- Circa 600 B.C., Jerusalem, Isaiah -- 416 B.C., Melos, Thucydides, The history of the Peloponnesian War -- 146 B.C., Carthage, Polybius, Roman history -- Circa 100 B.C., Rome, Lucretius, On the nature of things -- 49 B.C., Rome, Lucan, The Civil War -- 30 A.D., Jerusalem, Mark -- 64, Rome, Suetonius, on Nero -- 70, Jerusalem, Josephus, The Jewish War".
catalog tableOfContents "Part II: the fall of nations -- Late 1400s, Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks -- 1502, Christopher Columbus, Book of prophecies -- Early 1500s, Hispaniola, Bartoloḿe de Las Casas, A brief account of the destruction of the Indies -- 1527, Rome, Luigi Guicciardini, The sack of Rome -- 1555, Nostradamus, Oracles -- 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II -- Early 1600s, John Donne, Holy sonnet -- 1643, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio medici -- 1649, London, anonymous, beheading of Charles I -- 1665, London, Daniel Defoe, A journal of the plague year -- 1745, Massachusetts, Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the hands of an angry God -- 1755, Lisbon, anonymous, the earthquake -- 1759, Voltaire, Candide -- 1755, Essaka, Olaudah Equiano, The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano".
catalog tableOfContents "Part III: the twentieth century: the end in a void -- 1906, San Francisco, Jack London, dispatch to Collier's Weekly -- 1910, Henry Adams, entropy -- 1914, Louvain, Richard Harding Davis, dispatch to the New York Tribune -- 1917, The Hindenburg trench, Siegfried Sassoon -- 1917, St. Petersburg, John Reed, seizure of the winter palace -- 1918, Oswald Spengler, The decline of the West -- 1918-1919, Count Harry Kessler, revolution in Berlin -- 1923, Tokyo, London Spectator, earthquake -- 1929, New York, The New Yorker, crash of '29 -- 1930, Sigmund Freud, the death instinct -- 1931, H.L. Mencken, the Great Depression -- 1932, Martha's Yineyard, Henry Beetle Hough, epitaph".
catalog title "The end of the world / edited by Lewis H. Lapham with Peter T. Struck.".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "Miscellanea. fast".
catalog type "text".