The New Penguin History of the World (English, Hardcover, Roberts J M)

To be precise it is not for you if you are looking for a short and crisp time travellers account of world history, i is a mammoth book with a very detailed discussions of events. While the book seldom misses any event of historical importance, my opinion is that some of the events are really explained with a western perspective ant that looks biased. In a few instances, author seemed judgmental. But overall, I gave it a five star as it is difficult to find a one volume World History Book for ...

The main author of this book Late Prof. J Roberts is an academician who believed that world means 'western world' (read Europe) and any action/event in eastern world is just a reaction to something in the western world. True there are chapters on Indian or Chinese civilizations, but they are mostly of the form "are also there" and the limelight of the book is western civilization all along.

I understand that world, as it is today, is largely western driven. But when you are a professor of hi...