TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts, J. M.
AU  - Westad, Odd Arne.
TI  - The History of the world
SN  - 9780199936762
AV  - D 21 .R63 2013 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - United States of America
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - WORLD HISTORY
N1  - Includes index; Book 1. before history -- Book 2. civilization -- Book 3. the classical age Book 4. the age of diverging traditions -- Book 5. the making of the european age -- Book 6. the great acceleration -- Book 7. the end of European age -- Book 8. our own time
N2  - John Robert was a remarkable historian, whose one-volume history of the world is probably the finest ever produced in english. When I first rea it, as a teenager growing up in small town, I was struck by the scope of it all: Robert does not just recount history, he tells it; he present the great outline of human development without losing track of big stories that drove it forward
ER  -