I’m looking for recommendations for books that provide a deep and detailed analysis of global history, particularly focusing on how ancient civilizations, empires, and historical developments have shaped the geopolitical landscape of the world today.
by Cultural_Librarian42
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I doubt you’ll find a single book that can give you a detailed analysis of global history. Instead, you’ll have to read very specific specialized books on particular civilizations you’re interested in (like, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon or Rise and Fall of the third Reich by Shirer)
For more general history, you can try Fukuyama’s “Origins of political Order”, Why Nations Fail, or Guns, Germs, and Steel.
I’d also recommend college textbooks on the subject of “International Relations” as they tend to explain how political order operates, how sovereign states rise and decline, how diplomacy works between nations, how to analyze geopolitical actions in the modern world, and points to references to other work to branch out from.