Because there's definitely a Western/European bias in the study of history, I recommend Jack Goody's "The Theft of History" [1] > Professor Jack Goody builds o

Because there's definitely a Western/European bias in the study of history, I recommend Jack Goody's "The Theft of History" [1] > Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love. [1] https://books.google.ro/books?id=jo1UVi48KywC&redir_esc=y https://books.google.ro/books?id=jo1UVi48KywC&redir_esc=y