[geeks] History book suggestions?

[Dan Duncan]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 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 we still divide the
> world into), but that's not how people are writing books yet.

The Outline of History, by H.G. Wells.

Yes, *that* H. G. Wells.

It's a 2 volume set.  The books are fairly small.

It's the only set of history books I've kept.

-DanD

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