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From Prehistory to the 21st Century
Jeremy Black
Published · Apple Books edition
A broad timeline exposes relationships that a single-country story can conceal.
Black’s illustrated survey supplies orientation across long periods and different regions. Its pragmatic role is as a reference scaffold: use the chronology to locate an event, identify neighbouring developments and decide what deserves a deeper source. It helps readers connect political, social and technological change without beginning from a single national narrative.
WTM’s judgement: useful for orientation, with the inevitable compression of a one-volume world history. Selection and emphasis shape the apparent importance of events. Treat a short entry as the beginning of a research trail, especially when comparing regions with unequal surviving records.
ONE PRACTICAL NEXT STEP
Build a three-region timeline around one turning point; note where the overview leaves unanswered questions.
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Jeremy Black is a historian and prolific author whose work spans warfare, eighteenth-century Britain, cartography and culture. He also writes about the nature and uses of history, connecting events across different periods and regions.
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Catalogue updated: 10 October 2026. The Webflow Press page is the editable editorial record; this portal carries the launch catalogue edition.
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