Björn recenserade Fake History av Joeri Teeuwisse
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Yeah, this is essentially an extended series of Twitter posts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I follow Teeuwisse on [current non-Twitter platform] and enjoy her posts quite a lot. But as a book, it's a mixed bag of very specific and very general claims, some of which truly are things that "everybody knows" (and therefore can probably be dismissed just for that claim alone) and others make you go "But why would you even choose to amplify this nonsense?" Besides wanting to get to 101, I mean. And besides (justifiably) yelling at people who think "medieval" covers everything from Alexander the Great to WW1.
Like many layman history books, it's at its most interesting when it takes the initial claim as a jumping-off point to put a claim about history, and by extension the people making the claim today, in a context. When the story isn't just "OK, …
Yeah, this is essentially an extended series of Twitter posts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I follow Teeuwisse on [current non-Twitter platform] and enjoy her posts quite a lot. But as a book, it's a mixed bag of very specific and very general claims, some of which truly are things that "everybody knows" (and therefore can probably be dismissed just for that claim alone) and others make you go "But why would you even choose to amplify this nonsense?" Besides wanting to get to 101, I mean. And besides (justifiably) yelling at people who think "medieval" covers everything from Alexander the Great to WW1.
Like many layman history books, it's at its most interesting when it takes the initial claim as a jumping-off point to put a claim about history, and by extension the people making the claim today, in a context. When the story isn't just "OK, this was photoshopped by a bored college student in 2011" but "This thing kinda happened but it's more complicated and more interesting when you look at the whole story!"
A good book to keep around for reference and fact-checking examples. Or just follow her on [current non-Twitter platform].