What books do I read to have a general pleb's understanding

>>521952
Paradox games

>>521952
>What books do I read to have a general pleb's understanding of history?
Cartoon History of the Universe 1-3
Cartoon History of the Modern World 1-2
Cartoon History of the United States

>>521956
This desu senpai. Paradox games are extend my knowledge of history and i'm happy with it.

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>>521956
>>521960
>>521961

>>521956
>>521960
>>521961
This is bait

>>521952

Well OP, this is where I started:

History of the World - J. M. Roberts

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>>521956
For stupid shit maybe. But you and I both know that the games fall very short of anything accurate.

>>521970
>>521971
>What books do I read to have a general pleb's understanding of history?
This is bait.

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>>521960
desu this looks pretty fun

>>521970
>>521971
>What books do I read to have a general pleb's understanding of history?

Why are you so mad?

>>521983
"general pleb's understanding of history"

Even then they're not that bad, as they show the player what states were concerned with and in what context.

>>521984
>vidya is a book

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>>521960
>These barbaric beasts
>Horses and Red-heads
Kek

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>>521952
Face it OP, if you're a pleb you're probably not going to read any history book.

Just watch this instead.

>>521952
Will Durant 'Story of Civilization'
Susan Bauer 'History of the World'

You can get both sets on libgen.

>>524110
>Will Durant 'Story of Civilization'
Lies, pathetic lies.

>>524208
go on...

>>521952
Hobsbawm for post-French Revolution modern history.

>>521960
Aren't those a bit outdated? They do mention the Aryan invasions and from what I've heard that theory is no longer a good one

>>525193
Durant exemplifies whig history, did no archival research, and wrote specifically to demonstrate the superiority of western civilisation.

You can't get a more anti-Rankean work than someone like Spengler who is a misinterpreted mystic.

>>521970
>>>/his/

>>525197
Rabid Marxist.

>>525201
>Aren't those a bit outdated? They do mention the Aryan invasions and from what I've heard that theory is no longer a good one

They are a bit outdated, the earliest were written with books from the 1970s in the 1980s.

On the other hand the point is teaching a pleb how to read history, and they do that job.

>>525256
Got any citations for Hobsbawm having rabies? Didn't think so.