I'm a total novice in humanities and I want to start learning world history. Which do you guys recommend (looking for introductory and didactic books).
Thank's in advance
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+1 I like the question, I started to get interested in History by a timeline book, which never gave enough information, but I could catch interesting parts of history, and research in topics. Sadly I don't remember the book's name anymore.– CsBalazsHungaryJun 22, 2013 at 5:27
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Per the help center, questions asking for reference material are off-topic here.– Luke_0Jun 22, 2013 at 19:06
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I thought that this would be a question similar to there: math.stackexchange.com/questions/264371/… and math.stackexchange.com/questions/262/… at least in math.stackexchange it's ok to ask for reference-requests.– JLaganaJun 25, 2013 at 1:24
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@h3now I think Math.SE is the only SE site that welcomes explicit reference requests. The general policy is that those questions are off topic, but of course every community can bend the rules a bit, if there's very strong support for a certain category of questions.– yannisJun 25, 2013 at 7:58
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Got it! Well you already have one person supporting it =D– JLaganaJun 25, 2013 at 20:08
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Gonick, Larry. The Cartoon History of the Universe. 3 vols. Doubleday.
Gonick, Larry. The Cartoon History of the United States. Doubleday.
Gonick, Larry. The Cartoon History of the Modern World. 2 vols. Doubleday.
Good bibliography for the time of publication for each issue. Good methodology and introduction to issues in historiography. Raises primary sources and their interpretation. Appropriate speculation.
answered Jun 22, 2013 at 7:59
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Thank you! Seems like what I was looking for... Also, what do you meant by "Appropriate speculation"?– JLaganaJun 22, 2013 at 18:33
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Learning to interpolate correctly: history.stackexchange.com/questions/8877/… Jun 23, 2013 at 2:48
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Thank you. I'm loving it! Too bad history.stackexchange isn't confortable with reference-requests.– JLaganaJun 25, 2013 at 1:25