World History Reading

I decided I needed to learn some history. I set up a reading list and am working through it. I’ll post as I go.

Here’s the list:

• Origin Story by David Christian
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
• Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest Sates by James C. Scott
• A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century by Charles Holcombe
• A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani
• India: A History by John Keay
• Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
• The Penguin History of Latin America by Edwin Williamson
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm
• The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
• The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 by Chris Wickham
• Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
• The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
• The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times by Odd Arne Westad
• The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
• The Invention of Prehistory by Stefanos Geroulanos
• Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
• A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman