This is perhaps the leading world history text. It's a bit long, but the writing is clear, the descriptions are comprehensive, and the book covers all the world'd leading civilizations over a 5,000 period in interesting detail. You could do a lot worse if you were looking for a detailed, thorough, and well put together look at the history of the world. The previous student reviewer who appears not to have read the book b/c his professor did not like it might consider not posting reviews about book's he's never actually read. Such reviews are worthless.
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