Kent Augustson graduated with honors from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the PhD program in history at UCLA. After earning his Masters, he accepted an executive internship with the federal government for which he was competitively chosen. His thirty years in Washington, DC, featured presentations to the White House OMB and the US Congress. Traveling widely thereafter, Augustson returned to the studies of his youth with a broad perspective gained in DC and abroad. The first book in this trilogy, Tales of Invasions and Empires, won a national award.
The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World
Our Place in Time Volume II
by Kent Augustson
The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World
Our Place in Time Volume II
by Kent Augustson
Published May 27, 2021
458 Pages
Genre: HISTORY / Civilization
Book Details
“History is a vision of God’s creation on the move,” Arnold J. Toynbee esteemed author of A Study of History, examining some twenty civilizations
CIPA EVVY Award
3rd Place
The Twenty-five Years that Changed the World is the second book in the Our Place in Time trilogy portraying the advancement of the four major civilizations extant today—Confucian China, Hindu India, the Muslim Middle East, and the Christian West. With their expansion, they represent 85% of the world’s population.
The intent of these works—including the prequel, Our Axial Age—is to understandably capture the march of history with its pronounced progress in time while highlighting the fascinating people involved. In this work it is argued that, for the three-hundred-year period from 1400-1700, every happening of key consequence remarkably had some major connection with the brief quarter century from 1501 to 1526.
The colorful people brought to life include:
• The eunuch admiral whose treasure ships were the grandest armadas in Chinese history.
• The most magnificent and memorable sultan in the history of the Ottoman Empire.
• India’s splendid Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal for his beloved wife who died in childbirth.
• The two great contemporary geniuses who, for all their extraordinary art, were far apart.
• The personable father of science and the enigmatic playwright who heralded a new age.
• The mystic Muslim and the stubborn Christian who secured their faith’s structural division.
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