Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Books, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1956
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Top edge of spine is torn, cover has moderate wear, notes written on front and back inside covers and a few notes written on pages. 492 p. illus., ports., maps. 22 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition. Rev ed. Probably book club.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Books, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1956
Description: Horrabin J F. Very good. No dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear. Stained top edges. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding intact and square, except front hinge of v II partly cracked. Deckle edges. 2 volume set. xvii, 996 p. illus., ports., maps. 22 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City, Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1930
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. xxi p., 1 l., 1174 p. illus. (incl. ports., maps) diagrs. Star book. A Star book. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing
Date Published: 1930
Description: Good. -Reprint--No Jacket. Good 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall 1174 pgs. Interior-Light signs of aging w/ light cracking to the inside-front. The boards have only light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: read more
Edition: HB; New and Revised
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Publishing Co
Date Published: 1931
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Wear, spine completely loose from book (frayed and torn), spine frayed only a 1/2" at bottom still conected, age discoloration, inside of bok is in very good condition. 1255 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Chronological table read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Books
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. ---504 pages. Interior is clean and tight. Nice overall condition. -Publish Place: Garden City, New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Garden City Books, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. some wear to cover; no marks or writing within text; RTB734. xvii, 1027 p. illus., maps, ports. 22 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits. read more
"Fascinating from a cultural-historical perspective (trying to imagine Wells' frames of reference and open-mindedness in the years 1918-1929)
Not a bad choice for the average US citizen to read just for filling in our cultural gaps, still true today as in the 30s.
Interesting, to me, that Wells at the start of the 20th century understood the need to de-westernize history...he doesn't know all that much about Asia but he knows those cultures are valuable and important, and part of collective history."
"I've been procrastinating writing this review, because I hate saying that something by HG Wells really wasn't all that good. It reads like most history books from that era. It was dry, had very little detail on any one person, but plenty of details on events and transactions, and it jumped all over the place so it was hard to put things into the context of a time period. Not all was bad though. Here and there, Wells would step out of the narrative to give the big picture and his take on things, and that's where I saw what I've come to expect from his writing. But these were few and far between and not worth fishing through the rest of the text for. From now on, I think I'll stick with his fiction."
"It had some elements that were an advance in its time--taking up the whole world and not just "Western civilization"; trying to give cultural history and not just "great men and wars," etc.; starting with the geological origin of the earth and the origin of humanity through evolution--but in creeps racism here and there, and a twisted Fabian view of thinkers such as Hegel and Marx."
"Having just given a glowing review of Will and Ariel Durant's eleven volume history of human civilization, some mention of Wells' own, earlier and much shorter (two volumes in the current editions expanded by his son) attempt to bring it all together seems appropriate.
While it is very interesting to read anyone who essays such an ambitious project, Wells' work pales in comparison to the Durants'. If you read them, you don't need him for purposes of taking in a synoptic survey. Still, Wells is Wells, generally regarded as a more important writer than the Durants, so some may want to check this out as a nonfictional adjunct to his prognosticative novels. Personally, I think their history is better written and, so, though long, easier going and more pleasureable"
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