Books that look at world history (preferably) from the perspective of the societies that lived them just at least not from a European perspective we do our best okay
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The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Octavio Paz
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present
Peter Nabokov
A Resistance History of the United States
Tad Stoermer
BolĂvar: American Liberator
Marie Arana
Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (DiĂĄlogos)
Camilla Townsend
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Miguel LeĂłn-Portilla
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
Andrew Pettegree
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
Michael Booth
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1600
Halil İnalcık
The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #3)
Chinua Achebe
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies)
Meyda YeÄenoÄlu
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Nur Masalha
On Palestine
Noam Chomsky
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Norman G. Finkelstein
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison
Ahmet T. Kuru
A Short History of Islam
S.F. Mahmud
Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
Edward W. Said
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Amin Maalouf
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
Tonio Andrade
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Kenneth Pomeranz
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