by Marshall G.S. Hodgson argues that world history should not be seen as separate, disconnected cultures of the East and West, but rather that they were all connected in a multitude of ways and must be studied as such. Emphasizing the inadequate ideal of separating the world into two sections that are not equal in geography, culture, population, or history itself, he instead proposes a solution to the world history perspective: studying the world through its interrelationships between cultures and geographic locations . Hodgson's proposed vision of history on a large scale not only makes sense theoretically, but also logically as he demonstrates through the pages that history or the world cannot simply be divided, but must be studied as a whole to be truly