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Comprende il nome: Clive Ponting

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It reads more like a collection of essays on different aspects of the war but by the same historian. Quite good for those who are already familiar with the outline of the events.
 
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sarlis | Dec 31, 2020 |
I had a great deal of trouble finishing this book. It was just plain tedious.

This book could have been interesting and so much better, but I found it boring and outdated. I didn't learn much new "stuff", which is the whole point of reading books like this.

The first third of the book is incredibly boring and tedious (I put the book down to read 5 other books before picking it up again and forcing myself to finish it). The rest gets a bit better, but not much.

The author selects the most common, well-known examples (boring, old information) for his chapters - it would have been nice to read about something else besides the usual whales and passenger pigeons.

Major gripe: The author doesn't state his references properly so I have no idea where he gets his numbers/ statistics and some of his information from. There is a "Guide to Further Reading" but that doesn't really help very much. This is a science book! I expect proper references. I also expect new references as well as old references. Most of the "Further Reading" section lists books written in the 1980s. All the data provided in this book doesn't go further than 2000, and this is supposed to be an updated (2007) edition of the book.


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ElentarriLT | 4 altre recensioni | Mar 24, 2020 |
A fantastic world history... for those of us who had still not had our silly Euro-centricism knocked out of us.

I read this nearly 20 years ago now (wow, time flies) when I was even more foolish than I am today and, I am sorry to say, this was my first 'real' world history (of the 15 or so that I have actually read). Now, now I can see that the second millennium was fundamentally Islamic, not Christian, so I have learnt, but back then... back then this book KNOCKED MY FUCKING SOCKS OFF.

The patheticness of the pre-Opium Wars European traders was embarassing, our primativness revealing, and our post-climatic decline appropriate. Clive Ponting's "A World History" (the correct title) can be your Genesis, too. A classic.
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GirlMeetsTractor | Mar 22, 2020 |
A good account of the progression from early agriculture to our current environmental situation. In short, gathering and hunting was good, agriculture very bad for the environment. Killing, clearing, polluting,degrading has been going on for a few millennium.
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RChurch | 4 altre recensioni | Feb 8, 2011 |

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