ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 days agosometimes we get lost in the saucelemmy.mlimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1773arrow-down10
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minus-squareshawn1122@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-22 days agoThis is a difficult concept for Westerners (including myself at one point) since Western historiography has a tendency to portray history as linear and unidirectional.
minus-squarebmpvy@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 days agoI’m reading the two perfect books about this at the moment: https://www.buch7.de/produkt/a-history-of-the-world-in-500-maps-christian-grataloup/1043022620?ean=9780500252659 https://www.buch7.de/produkt/horizons-james-poskett/1043666144?ean=9780241986264 Both book kinda deconstruct the western linear history storytelling
This is a difficult concept for Westerners (including myself at one point) since Western historiography has a tendency to portray history as linear and unidirectional.
I’m reading the two perfect books about this at the moment:
https://www.buch7.de/produkt/a-history-of-the-world-in-500-maps-christian-grataloup/1043022620?ean=9780500252659
https://www.buch7.de/produkt/horizons-james-poskett/1043666144?ean=9780241986264
Both book kinda deconstruct the western linear history storytelling