{"id":12310,"date":"2013-09-04T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12310"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:36:51","slug":"how-long-a-book-does-it-take-to-tell-the-history-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12310","title":{"rendered":"How long a book does it take to tell the history of the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a great believer that one cannot understand current affairs without having a knowledge of history and that we all need not just an appreciation of our own country&#8217;s history but at least a general overview of world history. But obviously world history is a huge subject and we are all busy people, so is it possible to cover word history in one book and, if so, how big would that book need to be?<\/p>\n<p>I have just finished reading <em>&#8220;A History Of The World&#8221;<\/em> by Andrew Marr. It runs to around 600 pages and took me two months. You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history3.html#AHOTW\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Famously\u00a0E.H. Gombrich\u00a0managed to write <em>&#8220;A Little History Of The World&#8221;<\/em> which covered the subject in just 300 pages. You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history3.html#ALHOTW\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still too long? <em>&#8220;The No Nonsense Guide To World History&#8221;<\/em> by Chris Brazier runs through the topic in a mere 40,000 words . You can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history3.html#Guide\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone should read at least one account of world history in their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a great believer that one cannot understand current affairs without having a knowledge of history and that we all need not just an appreciation of our own country&#8217;s history but at least a general overview of world history. But obviously world history is a huge subject and we are all busy people, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12310"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12345,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions\/12345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}