My understanding of history is pretty pathetic, and I am trying to improve it. Looking for a book that isn’t revisionist, racist, or full of colonial apologia. Something that goes as far back as the 15th century would be perfect.

  • Capitalist Tears@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    For anyone interested, links to the books recommended here

    • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: https://archive.org/details/how-europe-underdeveloped-africa-pdfdrive.com
    • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity: https://archive.org/details/graeber-wengrow-dawn/David%20Graeber%2C%20David%20Wengrow%20-%20The%20Dawn%20of%20Everything_%20A%20New%20History%20of%20Humanity-Farrar%2C%20Straus%20and%20Giroux%20%282021%29/
    • A people's history of the United States: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-otanUZGGGcnDgfr7
    • Lies My Teacher Told Me: https://archive.org/details/loewen-james-w-lies-my-teacher-told-me/page/n5/mode/2up
    • Europe and the People Without History: No archive[dot]org link. I have a PDF, DM me if you want a link.
    • Memory of fire - cannot find a link yet