Derek’s Reviews > The Penguin History of the World > Status Update

The last few hundred pages have been a slog. The closer to contemporary times, the more pronounced these two historians bourgois biases have become. Britain and the US are presented sympathetically while communism and fascism are treated as the same. Not to mention, these historians continuously peddle Malthusian talking points and speak of the free market system mostly in glowing terms.

To be expected, there's a lot of eurocentrist historiography in this text, but it's only meant to be a very general overview before I delve into more specific books, especially the revisionist historiographies that center on the contributions of the oppressed masses that I'm more interested in getting into after reading this normative Western overview.