Ten thousand years of human history – more or less
History: if you read one history of everything this year, Philip Coggan’s More is the one for you
More
By Philip Coggan
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If I had a euro for every overarching history of everything I’ve read in the last year, I would have about eight euro. The 20,000-feet vista, the see-above-it all genre is in full orchestration in the non-fiction lists.
There have always been books that emphasise the dynamic over the detail, but since the Pulitzer-prize winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, the narrative arc has only gotten bigger, and bigger, and ...
