After Eden
A Short History of the World

Once upon a time, humans lived with much less interpersonal violence, without harsh patriarchal domination of women, and without systemic social inequities in general. Life wasn’t easy, but social exploitation and inequity figured much less than in later, civilized societies. That is the “Eden” o......more

I thought that Chasteen did a solid job packing in the key historical movements in a short but dense history of the world. For someone who started the book with the Big Bang theory I don’t understand why he’s so concerned about global warming and aligning himself with Greta Thunberg at the end. Overa......more

After Eden is tremendously ambitious, the history of the world in 378 pages. At one point, Chasteen uses the term “lightning overview” (p. 158) and that’s apt. The book is jam-packed. It’s also sobering. Warfare more or less began when humans started farming, because “farmers became the warriors’ ta......more

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This book is a miniature textbook for all of World History. It is organized well into historical time periods and eras from the Paleolithic period to modern present day. While it is concise and helpful for broad topics, you are unlikely to learn anything new about topics you know the basics of. For......more