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You'll probably enjoy the rest of the author's blog then. He really does his best to focus on systems, modes of production, and modes of organization. This is h
by jtolmar 6y ago
You'll probably enjoy the rest of the author's blog then. He really does his best to focus on systems, modes of production, and modes of organization. This is has been the standard for modern historians for quite a long time, but most pop history is still stuck in a "Great people, great ideas, great battles" framing. The author of this blog complains about this too at some point (I think somewhere in his Sparta series).
- im3w1l 6y agoI think the traditional way of understanding daily life in a given time is reading fiction set in the time.
- OscarCunningham 6y agoHe often does blog posts where he looks at a fictional work and explains what it got right and what it got wrong. So fiction is useful to learn history, and then fiction+diff is even more useful.