What this book isn't, and what initially confuses things, is a memoir, though it's structured like one, starting in childhood, and progressing chronologically.
At Edinburgh University, Childe focused on research, and although reportedly very kind towards his students, had difficulty speaking to large audiences; he organised the BSc degree course so that it began studying the Iron Age, progressing chronologically backward to the Palaeolithic, confusing many students.
He progresses chronologically, with capsule biographies of key personalities, entries on issues (baseball in the Jim Crow era, for example), artifacts ("A Raisin in the Sun"), and historic moments (the Black Power salutes at the 1968 Olympics).
He progresses chronologically, mostly with capsule biographies of key personalities, but there are also entries on issues (baseball in the Jim Crow era, say), artifacts ("A Raisin in the Sun"), and moments (the Black Power salutes at the 1968 Olympics).
He follows the poet's progress chronologically from his childhood in Idaho still, at the time of his birth in 1885, part of the wild west to his conquest of literary London between 1908 and 1920.
The book — many of whose chapters began as essays in The New Yorker, where Lepore is a staff writer — progresses chronologically through life's stages, from pre-conception to post-mortality.
It progressed chronologically through key events in Nim's life, starting with the time when he was placed with a foster family where he grew close to his human foster mother.
The class "started off with a bang" — the electric controversy of 1965 — then progressed chronologically from Dylan's formative folk years, through his dabblings in rock, country, gospel, and other styles, to the present.
"Outside Society" (Columbia/Arista/Legacy) is a remarkably well-honed collection befitting the artist: it progresses chronologically from her landmark 1975 debut, "Horses" (Arista), through 2007, when she threw the art world a curve with her yelping string-band cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
The book progresses chronologically through the important biographical landmarks: Keynes's membership of the Bloomsbury group; his rollercoaster record as an investor; his interest in economic policy, from a minor technical role at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to centre-stage at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference.
The book progresses chronologically, with each chapter surveying the agricultural problems that confounded the Confederate state as the war unfolded.
