Global Histories

There are a variety of “classics available in paperback such as Edward Gibbon’s Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West, and Arnold Toynbee’s A Study of of History. Some other lesser known works, with a non-western point of view, are Ibn Khaldun, An Arab Philosophy of History , Darwin Press, 1987, Jawaharial Nehru, Glimpses of World History, Oxford University Press, 1989, and Sima Qian, Historical Records, Oxford University Press, 1994. Other pioneers in the field include: William Mc Neill, L.S. Stavrianos, and Fernand Braudel. The most recent, Millenium, by Frenandez-Armesto is beautifully written and presents many divergent points of view about the development of the world.