The New History of the World (Edition 4) (Hardcover)

from JVioland

Not a traditional history text. More a new-historian type book - humanity before events and outstanding figures. A liberal outlook. Nothing inherently wrong with that except for a predisposition to critique accomplishments and emphasizing how much we need to do instead of how much has been accomp...

from tuckerresearch

A good stab at one of the hardest things to do: write an all-encompassing history of the world by yourself. Doesn't delve too far into theory.

from DLMorrese

I have a copy of this tome on my shelves and decided a couple weeks ago to reread it. (Mine is the 1993 Oxford University Press Edition.) It's comprehensive, covering human prehistory to the 1990s. In summary, much of human events can be seen as one group of people trying to steal stuff from anot...

from bevok

Anyone fascinated by world history will be delighted with the appearance of a new edition of John Robert's History of the World. His ill health mentioned in the preface made it hard work, and his recent death confirms his prophesy that this will be the final edition of this successful book. Overa...

from daschaich

Impressive Accomplishment, but Fundamentally Flawed: John Roberts' "History of the World" is an impressive tome that undertakes what many thought to be an impossible task: writing a single-volume history of the world from pre-human times until the present day. The result is not a book for those w...