tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post4624312812238442777..comments2024-02-22T19:21:40.330-05:00Comments on Muhlberger's World History: Help needed from big thinkers!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-82555682056081341432007-04-25T14:18:00.000-04:002007-04-25T14:18:00.000-04:00I'm really enjoying Helen of Troy: Goddess, Prince...I'm really enjoying <A HREF="http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?work=546727&mode=card" REL="nofollow">Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore by Bettany Hughes</A>. It's a view of Bronze Age Greece and how it has been represented in history, archaeology and art. There's a diverse range of techniques, periods and ideas covered, so there should be something for most people in it.<BR/><BR/>Depending there's also <A HREF="http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?work=8574&mode=card" REL="nofollow">Britain AD by Francis Pryor</A> is an argument that Britain maintained its own identity through the various invasions of the Romans and Saxons. Britain BC is all prehistory, so it wouldn't compare so well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05905810895962354616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-92035939962462438982007-04-25T13:47:00.000-04:002007-04-25T13:47:00.000-04:00Jared's Guns Germs and Steel also deals with 'Big ...Jared's Guns Germs and Steel also deals with 'Big History' and won him the pullitzer prize. <BR/><BR/>Short History of Progress was a great read :)Yellow Melonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02721243940634538082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-20042371498024534102007-04-24T20:11:00.000-04:002007-04-24T20:11:00.000-04:00It's very problematic, but Jared Diamond's most re...It's very problematic, but Jared Diamond's most recent book, "Collapse" draws a huge amount of interest and reaches back to ancient civilizations.Ancaretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12043235152175550207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19833734.post-39051832538269980012007-04-24T18:44:00.000-04:002007-04-24T18:44:00.000-04:00How about Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory?How about Simon Schama's <EM><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Memory-Simon-Schama/dp/0679735127/ref=westeros-20/102-9965947-7550568?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177453907&sr=8-1" REL="nofollow">Landscape and Memory</A></EM>?Ranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14624874851189206547noreply@blogger.com