A review by veganschnitzel
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History by John Robert McNeill, William H. McNeill

3.0

Definitely an interesting look at the development of human society, giving due coverage to development in non-Western areas for the world and positing reasons of why some societies were able to develop faster or more effectively than others. I do wish the book was more self-critical, however; rarely did the authors concede that there was disagreement about how events happened or how these events should be explained, and the book contains few citations. It'd also be nice if the prose was a little livelier - the authors, especially toward the beginning, tend to stack facts on top of each other, and going on about who was growing sorghum and who was growing alfalfa without context of what these different agricultural trends meant doesn't make for fascinating reading.