I’m gonna make a list and hit the library

  • smellythief@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Guns Germs and Steel. I remember feeling, after I read it, that I saw things differently. But now the ideas presented in it seem the most natural things in the world, and I can’t imagine I ever thought otherwise. Or maybe I had the same views before but not historical foundations for them… I can hardly remember now.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a book that historians scoff at. It’s all narrative and no science apart from few cherry picked examples.

      “Our Fake History” has an episode on it, and as a topic it’s spot on for that show.