Ferguson and Fernández Armesto are two of the more important present-day british historians (the first more tory than the second) , and the books presented here are
VIRTUAL HISTORY , including the fascinating chapter of a 1914 without british
MILLENIUM
CIVILIZATIONS , this two from Armesto
The fourth book is the "Encyclopedia of World History" (Ploetz , Langer) , that consists of a cronology framework of the western developement.
This is a book with more than a century of constant use by students across Europe , but here is presented in an american edition.