There isn't really many book on general African history. It'd be kinda like asking about books on European history, there's just so much to cover.
Pick a place in Africa that interests you and go from there.
There are a ton of books on European history by age and era. Someone who wants a book on the Middle Ages or the Napoleonic Era is going to be reading a book on European history.
There are literally books on world history and Africa may be geographically much larger but Europe also has a higher population density. Gibbon wrote a multi volume work on the Roman Empire that covers Europe, Asia Minor and the Middle East. I can myself find *plenty* of books on African history, generally by era. Obviously I am talking a category too that would include subsections just like someone asking for books on European history might be recommended Thucydides. You are just being pedantic in lieu of being informed
12 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, but it is giving you an illusion of understanding. Read the wikipedia page of it, if you don't really care, and I'm being pedantic. Then check the references for whatever that picks your interest.
There are literally books on world history and Africa may be geographically much larger but Europe also has a higher population density. Gibbon wrote a multi volume work on the Roman Empire that covers Europe, Asia Minor and the Middle East. I can myself find *plenty* of books on African history, generally by era. Obviously I am talking a category too that would include subsections just like someone asking for books on European history might be recommended Thucydides. You are just being pedantic in lieu of being informed
Incidentally I am *positive* I can find books on Latin American history
12 months ago
Anonymous
Yes, but they really tell what is happening here? Or just some really broad overview of things? I would consider that putting it all in one thing wouldn't really make sense considering certain periods. There were Spanish and Portuguese sides of it, and things were different.
12 months ago
Anonymous
The thing is that I don't think you should pick areas bigger than a certain size and just study them as if they were a single thing, because they just happened to be under the rule of the same person, empire or whatever.
12 months ago
Anonymous
This made me feel like getting back to reading a book about the Ukraine. It would go back to ancient times and tell things about places, and how particularly Crimea was always a "hot" place.
12 months ago
Anonymous
The thing is that I don't think you should pick areas bigger than a certain size and just study them as if they were a single thing, because they just happened to be under the rule of the same person, empire or whatever.
If you are looking at a subject you generally start with a broad overview. No one reading about Napoleon starts with a book on his policy on cotton
12 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah, but this is like studying world history. Is it really world history? Or a particular nation's view on world history? I'm just saying.
12 months ago
Anonymous
>um history is through the lens of the nation producing the history??
Ya think?
12 months ago
Anonymous
Yes, but they are sloppy as hell. You are getting goyslop and thinking that you are getting knowledge. It is cool if you feel like doing an exam or showing off to people, but it won't give you anything valuable to work on valuable insights. You will end up formulating stupid simplistic thoughts.
12 months ago
Anonymous
You are being a bit silly. Might as well say don’t read Xenophon or Herodotus on the Persian wars because they’re Greek
12 months ago
Anonymous
You asked for IQfy, I'm saying that IQfy isn't that simple. Now, there is some IQfy.
I'll give you something somewhat "interesting" to work with and that will maybe make you start understanding how complicated this shit actually is, there are two romances about Angola's war for independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_at_the_End_of_the_World
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayombe_(romance)
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1408403
There you go. Both sides of the same war.
, get to reading.
And I haven't said that you shouldn't read anything, just that you have to consider then with a pinch of salt.
I'll give you something somewhat "interesting" to work with and that will maybe make you start understanding how complicated this shit actually is, there are two romances about Angola's war for independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_at_the_End_of_the_World
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayombe_(romance)
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1408403
There you go. Both sides of the same war.
Jane goodalls life with the chimps
There isn't really many book on general African history. It'd be kinda like asking about books on European history, there's just so much to cover.
Pick a place in Africa that interests you and go from there.
There are a ton of books on European history by age and era. Someone who wants a book on the Middle Ages or the Napoleonic Era is going to be reading a book on European history.
Africa is 3 times bigger. Just saying, this is like saying that you want LA history, it won't work. You have to pick regions and places.
There are literally books on world history and Africa may be geographically much larger but Europe also has a higher population density. Gibbon wrote a multi volume work on the Roman Empire that covers Europe, Asia Minor and the Middle East. I can myself find *plenty* of books on African history, generally by era. Obviously I am talking a category too that would include subsections just like someone asking for books on European history might be recommended Thucydides. You are just being pedantic in lieu of being informed
Yeah, but it is giving you an illusion of understanding. Read the wikipedia page of it, if you don't really care, and I'm being pedantic. Then check the references for whatever that picks your interest.
Incidentally I am *positive* I can find books on Latin American history
Yes, but they really tell what is happening here? Or just some really broad overview of things? I would consider that putting it all in one thing wouldn't really make sense considering certain periods. There were Spanish and Portuguese sides of it, and things were different.
The thing is that I don't think you should pick areas bigger than a certain size and just study them as if they were a single thing, because they just happened to be under the rule of the same person, empire or whatever.
This made me feel like getting back to reading a book about the Ukraine. It would go back to ancient times and tell things about places, and how particularly Crimea was always a "hot" place.
If you are looking at a subject you generally start with a broad overview. No one reading about Napoleon starts with a book on his policy on cotton
Yeah, but this is like studying world history. Is it really world history? Or a particular nation's view on world history? I'm just saying.
>um history is through the lens of the nation producing the history??
Ya think?
Yes, but they are sloppy as hell. You are getting goyslop and thinking that you are getting knowledge. It is cool if you feel like doing an exam or showing off to people, but it won't give you anything valuable to work on valuable insights. You will end up formulating stupid simplistic thoughts.
You are being a bit silly. Might as well say don’t read Xenophon or Herodotus on the Persian wars because they’re Greek
You asked for IQfy, I'm saying that IQfy isn't that simple. Now, there is some IQfy.
, get to reading.
And I haven't said that you shouldn't read anything, just that you have to consider then with a pinch of salt.
Sometimes a cup or even a full bag of salt
and it has a third of the history lol
Yes, that is kinda the point.
>50 countries
You could at least pick a region.
Someone post the Hegel quote
The novels of Wilbur Smith.
I'll give you something somewhat "interesting" to work with and that will maybe make you start understanding how complicated this shit actually is, there are two romances about Angola's war for independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_at_the_End_of_the_World
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayombe_(romance)
https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1408403
There you go. Both sides of the same war.
And IQfy, those books are both cool.