World History

[mburbank]

Here was my approach, many years ago when I actually had time.
Purchase any small world history book, a survey overview, a text book, it doesn't matter, get it used and cheap, becuase:

I don't think there are any good world history books. It's too vast a topic. You use the book to keep other things you read in order, to remind yourself of what was happening elsewhere in the orld when something youa re reading about was happening. Then you look for good overviews of chunks of time. It's a life project.

I like Barbara Tuchman. I find all her stuff very readable, but very informative as well.