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The New Penguin History of the World: Fourth Edition
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by J. M. Roberts
Sales Rank: 60660
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List Price: $22.00
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Cover Type: Paperback with 1248 pages
Published by: Penguin Non-Classics; Rep Sub edition August 3, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0141007230
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0141007236
Book Dimensions:
7.6 x 5 x 2.2 inches
Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Jonathan Sumption, Sunday Telegraph
A work of outstanding breadth of scholarship and penetrating judgments. There is nothing better of its kind.
Product Review
A work of outstanding breadth of scholarship and penetrating judgments. There is nothing better of its kind. (Jonathan Sumption, Sunday Telegraph) Anyone who wants an outline grasp of history, the core of all subjects, can grasp it here. (The Economist)
Reader Reviews
Not having read his older version I have no idea how it compares or how much has been changed and/or added. My first attempt at a straight through read of a book on the subject, I am confident I made a good choice in picking up this particular book. Some have said that this book suffers from an over-abundence of euro-centrism. I would disagree. If your conception of a fair portrayl of world history is the collection of "national" (for lack of a better word) histories each given an equal amount of attention (or even an amount of attention proportinate to their achievments within their borders), then this book will certainly not satisfy you. In this book, great civilazations (such as the chinese, japanese, and native americans) that were more isolationist in ideology get compartively little attention because they contributed compartively little to the lives of those living outside their oversight. Therefore, in selecting national histories to focus on, Roberts spends a large portion of the time discussing the history of europeans because they played a large role ("for better or for worse" he acknowledges) in the histories of other people. That europeans, for better or for worse, have succeded more then any other people in spreading their idealogies and influences is less a matter of opinion and more a matter of fact. So if you are interested in a 1200-page, slightly sophisticated introduction to world history, with a particular focus on war and economics, I would heartily recommend this book.
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