[geeks] History book suggestions?

[Dave Fischer]

very at zonky.org writes:

>On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:28:30 -0400 (EDT), nate at portents.com wrote:

>> I was wondering if any of you had any suggestions on good history
>> books.  Ideally, I could find one volume (or set of volumes) that
>> would cover the last 5000 years of world history as a systemic whole
>> (rather than break things down into the artificially discreet regions

>I don't think you'll find anything like that other than very old and
>very incomplete works ... it's too big a subject. Even something like
>Davies on Europe only covers things superficially.

As for old classics... Gibbons' Decline & Fall is a good read, but
assumes you have a general understanding of Roman history. Don't
try to read it first!

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