What do you guys think about this book? Would you recommend any

it's pretty good look at labor history and civil rights, although it doesn't cover any lgbt struggles and when asked why not howard zinn weakly answered "well i'm not gay so it never occurred to me to cover it" but he's not black and still covered civil rights, so what the fuck kind of excuse is that?

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ur history is boring haha

>>9783445
Start with the Greeks

Sounds like a book that Reddit would praise.

>>9783454
Thank god he didn't, no one wants to read that drivel.

>>9783445
read it along with A History of the American People by Paul Johnson to balance things out

Read Renegade History instead

>>9783454
maybe LITERALLY GETTING FUCKED IN THE ASS is not comparable to racial discrimination or labor struggles

>>9783454
please tell me this is bait.
If true, I'm going to start believing the SJW ,memes about the US.
Nothing against gays, but they represent a tiny minority of the population, and so heterogenous socially, economically and education-wise that it can hardly be considered a group, lest we consider the ginger experience part of the people's history.
Their experience is in no way constitutive of "the people"'s experience on the same level as color or labor issues, are

>>9783471
There are few history books more reddit-tier.

This thread is gay
>>9784781
[JARED DIAMOND INTENSIFIES]

>>9783445
Haven't read it, but i've heard (from a leftist) that has an extremely left wing bias

He literally just makes shit up to support his thesis (That white people should be wiped off the face of the Earth, or something) so of course it's a well-respected book.

>>9783445
I just started on it and while I like it mostly, I yesterday happened upon this:

>European travelers in the sixteenth century >were impressed with the African kingdoms of >Timbuktu and Mali, already stable and >organized at a time when European states >were just beginning to develop into the modern nation.

and I honestly couldn't understand what the fuck he meant by that. It sounds as if those African Kingdoms were miracles of social order while Europe was a bunch of anarcho troublemakers.

I will go on with it to see how much of a propaganda piece it will be, but I certainly think one would want to have some counter balance while reading it.

Recommendations welcome.

>>9784821
That's literal WE WUZ shit. Now imagine that level of research is the entire book. Are you really able to separate the outright bullshit from what's true?

>>9784830
I doubt you read it. I thought it was an interesting take on American history from the point of view of the disenfranchised

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>>9783445
If you want marxist american history dripping with sour grapes there are way better works out there

>>9784820
>>9785507
What if I want something less liberal and more right winged? What would you recommend?

>>9786768
Atlas of World History - Patrick O'Brien.