One of the strange consequences of reading so much history is that you start to be able to imagine what a historian would write about your own time. It's alarmingly easy to imagine a future historian writing "As China's power grew, America was paralyzed by internal dissension."
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What are your top three history books?
Medieval Technology and Social Change Life in the English Country House Moorish Spain The German Generals Talk
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History started earlier and happened in other parts of the world too
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No love for Thucydides?
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She said three!
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Try reading these to bring in some diversity 1. Discovery of India : J L Nehru 2. Genghis khan and making of the modern world 3. Democracy A life 4. The good earth / fiction
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