REVIEWED BY JIM DAVIES
Viking, 2018. 576 pp. 75 graphs and tables. $35 ISBN-13: 978-0525427575
ASK JUST ABOUT ANY NON-HISTORIAN you know, and they’ll tell you what they think is common sense: the world is a mess and getting worse. If you don’t agree, you probably haven’t been reading the news, which has been reporting darker and darker stories as the decades pass.