A review by mattie
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History by J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill

3.0

The history of the entire human race in just over 300 pages. Dense and often slow but pretty interesting. I learned a lot about longstanding ecological connections between humanity and the planet: the domestication of wheat, goats, etc etc. It was good at drawing complex connections: alfalfa bacteria meant certain crops could be cultivated which could support certain types of horses which meant raiders could sweep into China from the steppes. Impressively done, alfalfa bacteria!

..... I know I had more to say but I finished this in September so WHO KNOWS what it was.