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_bb's review against another edition
2.0
It's an ok way to get a glimpse of history. As a whole it glosses over way too much important context and often gets lost in less important minutia. Sometimes it's able to connect the important threads and trends of history to specific events, but mostly it feels fragmented and jumps around a lot. Yeah, there is a lot of history to cover in the world, yet there are probably more consistent and substantial ways to have covered it in this many pages.
For parts of history where I have more familiarity I noticed some omissions or framing that seemed unjustifiable.
For parts of history where I have more familiarity I noticed some omissions or framing that seemed unjustifiable.
bramhubbell's review against another edition
5.0
A truly different approach to world history. Wiesner-Hanks puts the social history up front, and the political history is an afterthought. Definitely worth reading.
lil_juulnieb's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
2.5
Although interesting, it is absolutely exhausting to read. The prose is stiff, boring, unimaginative and unclear, especially the latter is of course horrible for a non-fiction book. The consequence of discussing the history of the world is that the author is, of course, forced to jump around between regions when relating historical tendencies and developments, but the way in which it is done is often awkward, which stunts the flow of reading further and further until you're just lost in a wall of statement upon statement upon fact upon observation upon statistic.
aphonusbalonus's review against another edition
1.0
GOOD RIDDANCE YOU DRY-ASS $90 NON-RETURNABLE TEXTBOOK. MAY YOU ROT FOREVER ON MY SHELF