A Global History of History

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"A small mammoth of a book about the, well, history of history. Impressive is the scope that Woolf has bravely taken by deciding to focus on literally everywhere in the globe and at all times. Not an easy task, but Woolf manages it better than one could imagine by tackling simultaneously the shifting currents of historiography in Europe since the classical Greece, in China since the Han, in Near East since the Assyrians, the Islamic world since its dawn, India, Korea, Japan, and the pre-Colombian"