View A Short History Of The World H. G. Wells Background. A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years. His prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science his bestselling historical works the outline of history (1920) and a short history of the world (1922) break with historical.

It gives in the most general way an account of our present knowledge of history, shorn of elabora tions and complications.

Wells wrote a short history of the world. this straightforward look at the world's timeline, from the first appearance of humans to the reconstruction after world war i is an engaging and concise adventure story that also happens to be true. Wells then goes on to explain the development of the earth and life on earth, until reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the cradle of civilisation. Wells wrote a short history of the world. Let's relax to the history of our marvelous world, from formless matter through the age of mighty dinosaurs, as described by the great h.g.