by Andrew Marr
36 See Brian Lapping, End of Empire (Granada 1985), pp. 24ff.
37 See Andrew Roberts, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006), p. 12.
38 Keay, India: A History, pp. 450–1.
39 Keay, op. cit., pp. 475–6.
40 Adams, op. cit., p. 229.
41 Richard Dowden, Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles (Portobello Books 2008), p. 84.
42 John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War (Penguin 2011), p. 184.
43 See Jonathan Fenby, The Penguin History of Modern China (2009), p. 92.
44 See Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story ( Jonathan Cape 2005).
45 See Jung Chang and Halliday, op. cit., p. 342.
46 Harrison E. Salisbury, The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng (Little, Brown 1992), pp. 3–4.
47 From Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Harvard University Press 2006).
48 Richard Evans, Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China (Hamish Hamilton 1993).
49 Jonathan Fenby, Tiger Head, Snake Tails (Simon & Schuster 2012), ch. 1.
50 Fenby, Tiger Head, Snake Tails, ch. 1.
51 Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World, 2nd edition (Penguin Books 2012), p. 518.
52 This section was suggested by, and bears a heavy debt to, one of the BBC researchers and assistant producers for History of the World, Chris O’Donnell.
53 Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Behind Deep Blue (Princeton University Press 2002), p. 4.
54 Feng-Hsiung Hsu, op. cit., pp. ix–x.
55 Garry Kasparov, New York Review of Books, 11 February 2010.
56 See Daniel Crevier, AI: The Tumultuous Search for Artificial Intelligence (Basic Books 1993).
57 Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near (Duckworth 2009), ch. 1.
58 Quoted in Nils J. Nilsson, The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (Stanford University Press 2010), Web version, p. 647.
59 James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia (Penguin Books 2006), p. 3.
60 J.R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun (W.W. Norton 2000), ch. 2.
Bibliography
General Histories
Of the general histories I read, two by British historians stand out as exceptional: J.M. Roberts’s huge and magisterial History of the World, published by Penguin – I used the 2007 version – and Richard Overy’s The Times Complete History of the World, first published in 1978. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s Civilisations (Pan Books 2000) is as vivid and inspiring as ever. Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects (Allen Lane 2010) hung over me all the way through the later stages of this project as a terrifying example of how to write with wit and erudition across a vast field. The American historian William Hardy McNeill, whose World History I used in the Oxford University Press 1998 edition, is a Titan of global history-telling. I hugely recommend The Human Web which he co-authored with J.R. McNeill (W.W. Norton 2003). The latter, John R. NcNeill, is also the author of a superb environmental history of twentieth-century humanity, Something New Under the Sun, in the Global Century Series in 2001. And for a very big-picture view, I thoroughly recommend Cynthia Stokes Brown’s Big History (W.W. Norton & co, 2007).
Almost everybody, whether they agree with everything he says or not, has been influenced by the work of Jared Diamond, whose Guns, Germs and Steel, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and The Third Chimpanzee are all essential reading. Of the recent big-history proponents, Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules – For Now (Profile 2010) is now essential too. I was also heavily influenced by Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature (Allen Lane 2011) and Matthew White’s Atrocitology (Canongate 2011). Other recommended general books include Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail (Profile 2012), and Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (Profile 2011).
Books Used and Cited
What follows is not a complete list of books read in whole or part for this volume – others can be found in the notes - but comprises those I found were particularly useful. In a project of this size it is probably inevitable that many seminal and mighty works have been ignored or missed: if any of their authors happen to be reviewers, then I am particularly apologetic.
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––– Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters (Palgrave Macmillan 2003)
Diamond, Jared, The Third Chimpanzee (Hutchinson 1991)
––– Guns, Germs and Steel (W.W. Norton 1997)
––– Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (Penguin 2005)
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E
vans, Richard, Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China (Hamish Hamilton 1993)
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––– Tiger Head, Snake Tails (Simon and Schuster 2012)
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––– The War of the World (Penguin 2006)
––– The Ascent of Money (Penguin 2008)
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––– Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (Allen Lane 2002)
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––– India: A History (HarperCollins 2002)
––– China: A History (HarperPress 2008)
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––– and Jane Roberts, Leonardo da Vinci (South Bank Publications/Hayward Gallery 1989)
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––– Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane 2000)
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––– A History of Christianity (Allen Lane 2009)
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––– The Terracotta Army (Bantam 2007)
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