I want to greatly expand my understanding of history, I want reasonable and in no way biased to any political side books that help me greater understand any period of history You think I should learn more about.
All history books are biased, it’s unavoidable. Here are some great options from a variety of perspectives you can compare to each other. All state their biases upfront and support their claims with plenty of citations you can check. I’ve listed them in roughly chronological order. Despite some titles suggesting otherwise, these are all history books, many dealing with the history of particular ideologies:
*The dawn of everything* by Davids Graeber and Wengrow (ancient civilizations)
*The age of revolution* by Eric Hobsbawm (European revolutionary era)
*Liberalism* and *War and revolution* by Domenico Losurdo (self explanatory)
*Black Marxism* by Cedric Robinson (self explanatory)
*How Europe underdeveloped Africa* by Walter Rodney (self explanatory)
*Inglorious empire* by Shashi Tharoor (British empire in India)
*Horizons* by James Poskett (global science)
*The capital order* by Clara Mattei (post-WWI Europe)
*Blackshirts and reds* by Michael Parenti (European fascism and communism)
*The darker nations* by Vijay Prashad (the third world)
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins (U.S. during cold war)
*What is antiracism and why it means anticapitalism* by Arun Kundnani (modern racism and antiracism)
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All history books are biased, it’s unavoidable. Here are some great options from a variety of perspectives you can compare to each other. All state their biases upfront and support their claims with plenty of citations you can check. I’ve listed them in roughly chronological order. Despite some titles suggesting otherwise, these are all history books, many dealing with the history of particular ideologies:
*The dawn of everything* by Davids Graeber and Wengrow (ancient civilizations)
*The age of revolution* by Eric Hobsbawm (European revolutionary era)
*Liberalism* and *War and revolution* by Domenico Losurdo (self explanatory)
*Black Marxism* by Cedric Robinson (self explanatory)
*How Europe underdeveloped Africa* by Walter Rodney (self explanatory)
*Inglorious empire* by Shashi Tharoor (British empire in India)
*Horizons* by James Poskett (global science)
*The capital order* by Clara Mattei (post-WWI Europe)
*Blackshirts and reds* by Michael Parenti (European fascism and communism)
*The darker nations* by Vijay Prashad (the third world)
*The Jakarta method* by Vincent Bevins (U.S. during cold war)
*What is antiracism and why it means anticapitalism* by Arun Kundnani (modern racism and antiracism)