/lit/ - Literature

>>4163442
The Outline of History - H. G. Wells.
Its pre-history stuff has some outdated numbers, but the ideas and the rest of the book are excellent.

Something general enough to give you a periodisation so you can go further from there

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Thanks guys

A History of the American People - Paul Johnson
Best American history written, it has it all from colonisation to the present day (well, about 2007 or so I think).

A history of America is a history of the modern world.

>>4163470
Seconding Gibbon.

OP, try reading some ancients - Herodotus, Livy, Tacitus, or Suetonius.

>>4163470
>>4163574
>suggesting shit dated classics to learn about history
lel

>>4163442
All of the above are shit. Start with Class Structure in Australian History.

Check out The Great Courses, aka TTC

>>4163580
Most of what the books tell is still true and whatever criticisms there are can be found online.

>>4163580
>implying modern scholarship is anything but a heap of self-congratulatory rubbish
>implying modern scholarship will even be read 10 years from now
>implying the ancients aren´t sublime stylists to whom no modern, "objective" historian can compare
>implying the ancients aren´t men of true wisdom and noble outlook on life
>2766 AUC

>>4163615
>true
You've not done any historiography have you?

I've started reading The Story of Civilization and it's pretty interesting so far.

>>4163673
As in by W.Durant?
I picked up some of these editions (pic related but not mine) at a boot sale for cheap as fug
Might start them this week