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What's a good book on all of world history, including culture, economics, war, etc.?

I read the Atlas of World History by Patrick O'Brien as a kid, and I'm surprised there's nothing else like it in print. I don't care if it's a big encyclopedia set divided into volumes, each focused on an epoch, a continent, etc. Whatever. I just want something that's more detailed if possible.

>>9079874
You're not going to find a good book that covers all that in detail.

It's best to look for books on more specific topics.

>>9079852
A really great one I've been reading recently is A History of Private Life, I'm currently working on Volume 1 of 5, Pagan Rome to Byzantium.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/collection.php?cpk=1094

Highly recommended.

>>9079894
OP here. These look pretty great. Will definitely be checking them out. Your recommendation is much appreciated~

I'm a historyfag and I always feel bad when this thread gets posted because it's too general to recommend anything

It's easier when someone wants more specific recommendations

The list of "really good history books worth recommending" is really fucking long

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>>9079852

Roots of the Western Tradition
Empires of the Sea
A History of the World in Six Glasses
Cultural Amnesia
Better Angels of Our Nature

Guns Germs and Steel is worth a read.

Oh and give Apocalypse the Second World War on Netflix a watch.

Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich
Mao: The Unknown Story
Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Under The Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and The Kim Dynasty

Has anyone read that bio on Joseph Stalin by Kotkin? recommend or no

>>9079885

Doesn't need to be one book. Can be an entire encyclopedia set or multiple recommendations that cover world history from different angles. There's gotta be something good like Patrick O'Brien out there. What do world history classes teach?

>>9079852
The Histories by Herodotus

>START WITH THE GREEKS
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i really feel like getting into a good, long (but general) history.

has anyone got any recommendations for a history of britain or a history of the catholic church/papacy/reformation?

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>>9079852
I need recommendations for European history books, specifically on culture/sociology/ideology/etc. The best book that I've read that I'd like to find something similar to in terms of scope and ambition is pic related, really incredible how Barzun brings together such diverse sources and synthesizes it into such a compelling book.

I'm not particularly interested in just general political/military history, I like writers that are confident enough in their knowledge to not just state facts but draw conclusions from it and show the significance of what they're writing about.

In terms of periods/places I want to know more about here's a general list: Italy from the fall of rome to WW2, particularly the origins of Italy the nation. The Catholic church, the papacy, the reformation. English history from the high middle ages to WW2, particularly the 17th to 19th centuries. the middle ages in general, though I'm not too interested in the middle ages I'd love to find a compelling book on the period. The Holy Roman Empire, general continental european history and the origins of France and Germany, and maybe Spain. The Habsburgs. Also Russia, I know hardly anything about Russian history.

thanks people

>>9081098
Oh also the enlightenment, age of discovery, and the modern period in general before the 20th century

Any books on why the Holocaust didn't happen?

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>>9080625
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is a good place to start.

>>9079940
Mind listing some random suggestions? Maybe OP will see one that interests him.

>>9081156
i'd prefer something written in the last 200 years

>>9080625
Peter Wilson "Europe's tragedy"

>>9081098
Roy Porter. Some of his stuff is medical, but he's a focus on the Enlightenment in general, and a history of London.
Italy you can read a lot of the founders (Manzzini and Garibaldi were pretty prolific)

You can also cover a lot of the modern era with Hobsbawm starting with the Age of Revolution, then Age of Capital, then Age of Extremes.

Not sure for the history of the church because I learnt that in Catholic school.

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>>9081098
The end of the book was disappointing, in that his decadence argument collapses into

>You fuckin kids, get off my lawn!

Anyways, pic related is excellent and has tons of book recommendations within the same context. Also Citizens by Schama is great for you, and if you hear people say its been criticized, its on his thesis that the revolution was inherently violent, as opposed to violence occurring within the revolution.

>>9081711
This is fucking based, as is CV wedgwoods 30 years war

CLR Jame's Black Jacobins

>>9081136
The Holocaust Industry and Evan's Third Reich at War as well as Eichmann in Jerusalem change the holocaust narrative a great deal, although probably not as extreme or ideological as youd like.

>>9081275
Churchill's History of the English Speaking People and Marloborough's Life and Times are excellent and Hume's History of Great Britain (but really just the civil war) are great in that regard.

>>9079962
Evans Third Reich Trilogy was great for the war, and Montefiore's Stailn: In the Court of the Red Tsar was fashioned like a tabloid, but with real occurrences, I thought it was a great read.

>>9079852
wikipedia desu

>>9080588
>herodotus
>father of lies
>start with him
>awesome advice

>>9082507
the "facts" are problematic but he is a starting point for historiography

Guys im going to Chichen Itza next month. I got Travels in the Yucatan vot 2 and Cenote of Sacrifice, but can anyone recommend me something on the city itself?

>>9079940
do you have a book on east-african post-colonial history?

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>>9082671
Pic Related
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
The Devil Came on Horseback
Shake Hands with the Devil

>>9082523
hahaha, lol how bout no! he's the only acient historian that you shouldn't read first hand

>>9083123
>hahaha, lol how bout no!
hahaha, lol how bout no!

>>9082507
>people mad herodotus was right about the missing army
>people mad herodotus was right about the skulls
gets me errytime

Can there really be a good history book that encompasses different nations and eras while going indepth?

>>9083205
there's been a run of these about commodities (sugar, coffee, medicine, silk) of late, and histories of ideas often do similar ideas, but generally not focusing on a particular era or area means they chose something else to focus on (e.g. a history of naval warfare, a history of a commodity, a history of dress) around which most of the detail coheres.