Other Books of The Same Title
A book of the same title was written by H. G. Wells in 1920.
British historian John Roberts published A Short History of the World in 1997, as a followup to his larger 1994 book History of the World.
Read more about this topic: A Short History Of The World (Geoffrey Blainey)
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