The Economist (US), November 16th, 1996
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 Davies sees the industry as ...
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