To Explain It All by Chris Edwards - 9781475851915

To Explain It AllEverything You Wanted to Know about the Popularity of World History Today\nAuthor(s): Chris Edwards\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781475851915, 978-1475851915\nSynopsis\nWorld history is not a subject; it is all the subjects. Because of this, world history as a discipline has never fit well with the traditional definition of historical research. [url] Wells wrote the first true book of world history in 1920 and only a few authors have made the attempt to explain it all since Wells. In that time, world history has become the chosen subject of polymaths and the field possesses the most potential to unite all of the disciplines of knowledge. The subject of world history has developed several approaches, with Big History being the most modern, and flawed, of its variants.