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Best world history book for beginners? 2017-04-14 05:05:25 Post No.
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Pic related is my choice. Read this shit cover-to-cover like five times when I was like 10. Probably single-handedly got me into an Ivy League school.
>provides great summaries, charts, and illustrations
>covers economic, political, religious, and social changes
>covers all regions of the world from pre-history to the modern world
>could be read by anybody with a high school education, but would put you vastly ahead of the curve of the college-education population if fully understood
What is your choice?
>hard mode: encyclopedic set that maintains a quantitative, multi-faceted, world-encompassing, "big picture" approach without obvious ideological biases.
>honorable mentions: any combination of books that would approximately fulfill the same purpose
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Kinda dated (it came out in the 70s) but "The Last Two Million Years" is a very good rundown.
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That book is good shit. I still have my family's copy as a coffee table book in my apartment.
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They should publish an updated edition called The Last Two Million and Forty Years
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Frankly, general history books are more "fun" than useful. The history of any region is so immense that a general world history book could never do any justice. With that being said, my nan had a huge (it was like a 3'/2' rectangle) general history book (Nat Geo?) that sparked my interest in history.
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