
I grew up in the UK in the sixties when history teaching and writing was very Eurocentric. This was actually progress. I think if I had been born a few years earlier it would have been very Anglocentric. Time has moved on and we now realise that the rest of the world is pretty important too. So when I tackled The History of the Medieval World by Susan Wise Bauer I was treated to what purports to be literally the history of the whole Medieval World. Europe gets plenty of coverage, but so does India, China, the Arab world, Japan and even Korea. It is quite refreshing to be reminded of what is going on everywhere and very illuminating to get it all presented as a continuous narrative.
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