World History. The Economist (US) | November 16, 1996| | COPYRIGHT 1996 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

IN 1920 H.G. Wells published his "Outline of History". It was meant to awaken people to the realisation that only a rationally ordered world-state would save humanity from destroying itself. The "Outline" sold 3m copies. Yet if an undergraduate today were to present its chapters as essays they would be tossed back with a red line through them. Hopelessly amateurish, the "Outline" breaks almost every craft rule of the history profession, or as Norman Davies would now put it, the history industry.

In a polemical introduction to his own survey of European history, Mr ...

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