The Globe on Paper: Writing Histories of the World in Renaissance Europe and the Americas: By Guiseppe Marcocci. Translated by Richard Bates. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. X + 214 pp., illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 (HB). ISBN 9780198849681

Following his introduction, Marcocci surveys several examples of these Renaissance era world histories over the course of five chapters. By the early seventeenth century, Marcocci maintains, blinkered nationalist histories sponsored by rulers and religious histories extolling Christianity over other beliefs replaces the cosmopolitan world histories. Marcocci believes that the last major example of a history of the world was Walter Raleigh's I History of the World i (1614), which used multiple world histories as its base and compared recent history and rulers to those of ancient empires. [Extracted from the article]