A small mammoth of a book about the, well, history of history. Impressive is the scope that Woolf has bravely taken by deciding to focus on literally everywhere in the globe and at all times. Not an easy task, but Woolf manages it better than one could imagine by tackling simultaneously the shifting currents of historiography in Europe since the classical Greece, in China since the Han, in Near East since the Assyrians, the Islamic world since its dawn, India, Korea, Japan, and the pre-Colombian and early-conquest America, including also the latest trends in postcolonial and gender history, and others. So... you know... lots. of. stuff.
But it stays compact, and is definitely readable, as long as you don't have to worry about remembering every single bit of information in the book. Because that would require some kind of alien brain structure that at least I do not possess. Especially interesting, in my opinion, is the chapter about the Americas before and directly after the conquest. Fascinating stuff. Florentine codex, here I come... eventually.
And the bibliography, man... if Woolf has read even a small part of the stuff mentioned, then I don't know how he has had time to do anything else, like, ever.
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