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Originally Posted by Luffy
Was it really a textbook? Being the latter, it was really terrific at times. I've completely forgotten the first chapter, though.
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It was volume one of the series "The Story of Civilization". It was the major textbook we used in a required course my first year of college. I knew there were other volumes but I didn't realize how many until years later when I saw a complete set in someone's home. I was surprised to see the size of the complete set since I had always thought of it as a textbook. It was only recently (actually, I think in a recent thread here on MR) I found out the sets were offered by book clubs, which is probably where the set I saw came from.
Wikipedia says there were 11 volumes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization
Edit To Add: What did you read this on - how did the illustrations look? It has been years since I have seen the book and I don't remember how much color was included but I wonder how the ebook looks.