David Cannadine

Details a provocative argument against the belief that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict, investigating six leading categories of human difference while arguing that history must also take into account typically disregarded,positive interactions.

Humanity Beyond Our Differences

The Undivided Past

Jeni Enjaian

While the narrator was fairly enjoyable The rest of the book was not. I take issue with the idea that the way that people did things in the past is always wrong. That seems to be the authors primary purpose in writing this book. I believe that juxtapositions are not only valid but also quite useful. This is definitely not the authors view. Sometimes the examples he uses to make his point up scare the point that he's trying to make. Additionally, the examples he uses show how people lived history dichotomously. Why should we be forced to tell a homogenous history? Overall this book was rather disappointing. I do not recommend it.

The Undivided Past Humanity Beyond Our Differences

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