Not my fav. This was assigned in my freshman year honors class, but I never got past the first few chapters. Having read the whole thing, it was interesting to get a (widely generalized) history of the world, and to have more context for events that have a lot of awareness, but it also reminded me that I don’t like learning about the mainstream perspectives of history. There is so much behind which stories we hear, but I’m much more interested in the more nuanced experiences than description of colonialism and industrialization