Book Club Event on 01/15/22: Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 by Derek Dwight Anderson

[Eugene]

Event is on January 15th, 2022. 4pm EDT.
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This book was suggested by Meryl

Full Title: Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives

Pages to read: 645
ISBN: B08M8DGMQG (Originally listed edition)
ISBN: 9798640294163 (Edition I am Using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book?
•Who are the individuals used in the book?
•What are the different nations and cultures described in the book?
•Why not impose early 21st values on the people of the past?
•What was the outcome when different cultures interacted?
•How were the nations regulated internally?
•Describe the culture’s social etiquette.

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My review of the book:
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Summary from Goodreads:
This uniquely-told world history interweaves the lives of twenty-six women and men who are not well known with the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments that have shaped the human experience through the course of the last 570 years. Meticulously researched and hailed by scholars, yet purposefully written for a broad audience, this book details the lives of doctors and musicians, aristocrats and artists, businessmen and suffragettes, scientists and generals who made essential, but now-largely forgotten, contributions to places and eras as diverse as Reformation Europe, Mughal India, Tokugawa Japan, colonial Australia, and post-colonial Kenya. Improbable Voices possesses both the vivid depth and the expansive breadth a satisfying history of the world warrants. Specific figures include Ethiopia's regent queen Eleni in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Spain’s moderate viceroy in Mexico and Peru, Diego Fernández de Córdoba, in the seventeenth; France’s talented salonnière Julie de Lespinasse in the eighteenth, Polynesia’s indigenous Christian missionary Ta’unga in the nineteenth; and Saudi Arabia’s colorful oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani in the twentieth. The book concludes by examining the work of German and Canadian climatologist Kirsten Zickfeld and the environmental challenges we face in the twenty-first century.