Thanks. You might enjoy my latest book, Humans: The 300,000 Year Struggle for Equality, which provides summaries for 300,000 years! It's all based on scholarly work but it's easy to follow. I was a journalist before I became an academic and I research like the latter and write like the former.
Nice plug, and it’s why I lurk deep in post threads here! Sadly not available here in the UK but if you know any different do let me know. I’m fascinated by human history and this academic study sounds right up my street.
A bookstore would order it for you. But that may be expensive. You can order the Kindle version from my publisher, James Lorimer via the sales guy, Daniel Campbell, sales@formac.ca. It's just $17 Canadian or about 9 pounds. My book, Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy is available in UK.