Macrohistory -- or big history as some call it -- describes connections across multiple microhistories.
All of us have a picture of humanity's past. It is this picture that makes us Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Skeptic or what have you. Macrohistory creates perspective, and its purpose should be to make the big picture more clear.
World History Outline: a flash perspective
Selected Macrohistories
1932 The Decline of the West: Volume 1, Form and Actuality; Volume 2, Perspectives of World History,
by Oswald Spengler. (comment)
1934-54 A Study of History, by Arnold J. Toynbee. (comment)
1935-75 The Story of Civilization by Will Durant. (comment)
1989 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, by Paul Kennedy. (comment)
1993 Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam and World History, (Studies in Comparative World
History by Marshall G. S. Hodgson.
1993 The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History, by J.M. Blaut.
1994 The Western Tradition, (two volumes) by Eugen Weber
1995 Telling the Truth about History, by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob. (comment)
1997 China, a Macro History, by Ray Huang. (comment)
1998 The Seekers, by Daniel J. Boorstin. (comment)
1999 A World History, fourth edition, by William H. McNeill. (comment)
2000 Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages, by Eugen Weber
2000 The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy,
by Kenneth Pomeran. (comment)
2001 A History of Capitalism: 1500 to 2000, by Michel Beaud. (comment)
2001 A History of Japanese Religion, edited by Kazuo Kasahara. (comment)
2002 A Chronicle of World History, by Frank P. King. (comment)
2002 A Military History of China, edited by David Graff and Robin Higham. (comment)
2004 Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History, by David Christian. (comment)
2005 Ideas: a History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud, by Peter Watson. (comment)
2007 War Made New: Technology, Warfare and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, by Max Boot. (comment)
2007 A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark. (comment)
2008 A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, by William J. Bernstein. (comment)
2009 False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World, by Alan Beattie. (comment)
2010 The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism, by Joyce Appleby. (comment)
2010 The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter (comment)
2010 War and History -- Ancient and Modern by Victor Davis Hanson (comment)