Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: VOL I: The story and aim of the Outline of History -- The earth in space and time -- The record of the rocks -- Life and climate -- The Age of reptiles -- The Age of Mammals -- Apes and sub-men -- The Neaderthal Men, an Extinct race (the Middle palaeolithic age) -- The later palaeolithic age, and the first men like oursleves -- Neolithic man -- Early thought -- The races of mankind -- The languages of mankind -- The early empires -- Sea peoples and trading peoples -- Writing -- Gods and stars, priests and kings -- Serfs, slaves, social classes and free individuals -- The Hebrew scriptures and the prophets -- The Aryan-speaking peoples in prehistoric times -- The Greeks and the Persians -- Greek thought, literature and art.
Vol I: The career of Alexander the Grest -- Science and religion at Alexandria -- The Rise and spread of Buddhism -- The two western republics -- From Tiberus Gracchus to the God Emperor in Rome -- The Caesars between the sea and the Great Plains -- The Rise ofChristianity and the fall of the Western Empire -- The History of Asia during the decay of the Western and Byzantine Empires -- Muhammad and Islam.
VOL II: Christendom and the crusades -- The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and his successors (The Age of the Land Ways) -- The renascence of Western civilization (Land ways give place to sea ways) -- Princes, parliaments and powers -- The New Democratic Republics of America and France -- The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte -- The Realities and imaginations of the Nineteenth Century -- The Catastrophe of modern imperialism -- Twenty years of indecision and its outcome -- After the Second World War.