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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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
Camilla Townsend
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
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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