I’m saying western because a book that covers all history would be asking too much or would just be too long for me. So i’m looking for a book that covers, maybe not in deep like an academic one but not too superficial either, history from a sociological and political point of view. (so not scientifically like A brief history of nearly everything). A book that looks at, I don’t know, the Roman Empire, how they lived, how it grew and how it ended, but also at why France and England where in war in the 18th century, the Napoleonic Wars, why and how (and obviously when) European country decided to conolize the Americas, Russia under Catherine the Great etc.
Is there anything like it or should i just look at 3, 4, 5 different books that cover different historical periods? I feel like they would goo too in depth and be too much of an hassle as I just want to know a bit more than the superficial facts of history that everyone knows. It’s not for studying
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Europe by Norman Davies
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*Western Architecture* by Ian Sutton
*Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician* by Christoph Wolff
*Beethoven: The Music and The Life* by Lewis Lockwood
*Shakespeare: The Biography* by Peter Ackroyd
*Benjamin Franklin: An American Life* by Walter Isaacson
*The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral and How It Changed the American West* by Jeff Guinn
*The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust* by Heather Pringle
*Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind* by Edith Hall
*SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome* by Mary Beard
*The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance* by Ross King
*Renaissance* by Andrew Graham-Dixon
*Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe* by John Julius Norwich
*The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age* by Simon Schama
*Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle* by Juliet Barker