Can anyone recommend some good world history books?
I know you will always lose alot in a 'world' history book, but what are some of the better ones?
Good history books
by zound 7 Replies latest jw friends
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truthseeker674
The bible and the koran and others et all, history belongs to those that record it.
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tornapart
I've got the Times Complete History of the World. It's very good.
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Julia Orwell
World history is a huge topic, so best to choose which periods and cultures interest you. And history is written from dozens of different approaches. As for world history, if you want to get an overview of cultures and timelines and geopolitical developments over time, best to get an atlas of world history, or a set of jacaranda textbooks.
For specific people or periods, or events, you can find some good stuff on special sometimes at qbd but online is the best place to search like The Book Depository.
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Terry
They are expensive and hard to find, but, Isaac Asimov wrote a series of history books that went down like chocolate cake.
They were accurate, informative and whet your appetite for deeper tomes. I read them all. Asimov, was the author of over four hundred books.
History
54 The Kite That Won the Revolution Houghton Mifflin 1963 63 The Greeks: A Great Adventure Houghton Mifflin 1965 71 The Roman Republic Houghton Mifflin 1966 81 The Roman Empire Houghton Mifflin 1967 86 The Egyptians Houghton Mifflin 1967 91 The Near East: 10,000 Years of History Houghton Mifflin 1968 92 The Dark Ages Houghton Mifflin 1968 94 Words from History Houghton Mifflin 1968 96 The Shaping of England Houghton Mifflin 1969 106 Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire Houghton Mifflin 1970 116 The Land of Canaan Houghton Mifflin 1971 126 The Shaping of France Houghton Mifflin 1972 137 The Shaping of North America: From Earliest Times to 1763 Houghton Mifflin 1973 149 The Birth of the United States Houghton Mifflin 1974 156 Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship John Day 1974 161 Our Federal Union Houghton Mifflin 1975 189 The Golden Door Houghton Mifflin 1977 461 The March of the Millennia: A Key To Looking At History [30] Walker 1991 Asimov's Chronology of the World HarperCollins 1991
Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the New World Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991 Ferdinand Magellan: Opening the Door to World Exploration Gareth Stevens, Inc 1991
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snare&racket
The best one I ever saw was an atlas of history....
http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-World-History-John-Haywood/dp/1586630997
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slimboyfat
Ernst Gombrich, A Little History of the World
The Times Complete History of the World, already mentioned, is excellent. It's a very popular book, I've sold tons of them. (Perhaps literally, it's a very heavy book)
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BizzyBee
Agree with slimboyfat. This is a great overview of world history - quick read.