[CASL-L] Humanities World History book needed

[Barbara Lyons]

Good morning all.  A challenge: My humanities (9th grade honors) teacher
would like to assign a book which covers world history (no small task!)  He
felt that Gombrich's A Little History of the World was too easy a read.  He
is open to a thematic approach - Bryson's a Short History of Nearly
Everything is more of a science approach.  Any ideas?  They have, in the
past, read How the Irish Saved Civilization.  I think he wants to go more
broad-
I am finding books with a strong Western bias (The Way of the World,
Fromkin; The Human story, Davis)
I love A History of the World in 100 objects by Neil MacGragor (director of
the British Museum) but it is 700+ pages!

TIA-Barb Lyons

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