Hi! I am European and most of my knowledge of history is centered around Europe (and some American and Australian history), and it is from a (west-)European perspective. I would like to learn more about the history of other parts of the world. Preferably also from a non-western viewpoint. Does anyone know a good book for world history from a non-western perspective?

I look forward to your suggestions!

I remember reading somewhere that all Finish soldiers KIA during this war were cared for and sent home for burial. I think the source said they were all cleaned, shaven and dressed before being sent home. Despite the cost in labor and transport such an operation would require. That source also claimed that must other nations at this time buried their common soldiers close to where they fell.

However I cant find that source again or any other sources for that matter, is it true?

I find it super interesting that medieval Rome seemed to be a built up area along side a bunch ruins within the walls. How were these used or thought about by the people at the time? Was the land utilized productively at all?

I was under the impression that by ww2 anti tank rifles were rendered all but useless by advances in tank design. However I am reading Antony Beevor's Stalingrad and there are many instances of Soviet troops using anti tank rifles to good effect against german forces.

Why did the settlers in the British and Spanish colonies differ so much in their attitudes towards slavery? Why did the British rather import them, and why did the Spanish enslave the natives rather than importing?

Title says most of it. But recently read a memoir of a concentration camp survivor. The Nazis forced him to break rocks and dig ditches for a few years. Why? Why didn't the Nazis just kill immediately?

The Iraqi-Jewish merchant David Sassoon became very wealthy in the first half of the 20th century after settling in British India. By the turn of the century, his son and grandson had become baronets and members of parliament and his granddaughter Rachel Beer had become a prominent journalist, editor-in-chief of The Observer and The Sunday Times.

I think it's extraordinary that a family of Iraqi Jews from India were able to establish themselves in British during the 19th century! Even Jewish people who originated in familiar countries like Portugal and Germany experienced great social prejudice upon their emigration to the United Kingdom. From what I understand, there was major popular resentment to the economic and political rise of the Lionel de Rothschild, first Jewish PM, just 20 or 30 years before.

Considering this climate, how were the "Rothschilds of the East" able to establish themselves in English high society? How did other wealthy Britons respond to their rise to power? Did any other Indian or Arab people achieve so much prominence within Britain proper in Victorian times?

I’m writing a piece about his life and I want to include primary sources to support my work. However I’m finding it extremely difficult to find primary sources that are written by, to, for or about Tokugawa Ieyasu or his achievements that is more that a passing mention (and not written by secondary sources). I’ve tried a number of English and Japanese archives, websites, photo galleries and books but I absolutely cannot don’t anything. Please point me in the right direction, the type of source or language of the place it’s held doesn’t bother me, as long as it’s primary!

I recently read somewhere that the looting of armor was big after a battle between Greek armies. Unfortunately, I cannot find the source of this information.

So, if I am a Hoplite, what are the chances I did not even pay for my armor but just looted it after a battle?

Why did people scale the Berlin Wall to get into West Germany when they could have driven to the significantly larger border separating East/West Germany and crossed on foot?

Hi, I’d like to know about documentaries you’d recommend on the origins of the Dutch Golden Age. I’m particularly interested in the exceptional state of the contemporary society with a consumer culture, companies, and other developments that resulted in the Northern European replacement of the Mediterranean centered trade, and eventually the birth of capitalism. Other than documentaries, I’d be very glad to have articles/posts to read on that issue.

It can be interesting reading about Polynesian peoples unique seafaring capacities, but I was just thinking to myself I rarely hear about it in relation to Māori people in New Zealand compared to places like Hawaii or Tonga. Am I just ignorant about Maori seagoing tradition, or were they comparatively more landlubbers than the rest of the Pacific? If not, the Maori have a famous martial culture, was water based warfare a major part of this?

I have seen this so, so, so frequently in comments, criticism pieces, and the like. When did critique get reduced to like this? Star Wars, Halo, any popular media, it gets criticized "objectively" these days. Did this kind of checkbox-level critique occur in the 20th century too?

I’m genuinely curious about this whole thing. I’ve heard people say academia is basically dead and I’ve read the famous post on here about not getting a graduate degree of any kind in history because there are no jobs. I don’t see as much about consulting work though. How hard is it to get a job as a consultant, how much experience would one need, how much schooling, and is film consulting an option? I never hear that talked about at all really and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of info on how one would work in that field. I assume you would need film connections?

I’ve heard that in the past most people simply went to their regional university, so it was not particularly difficult to get into a school like Harvard or Yale. When did these elite colleges raise academic standards to such a high level that they are now extremely difficult to get into?

I imagine that women shaving/removing hair from their legs as a beauty thing is something relatively new as the technology wasn't there 200 years ago to do it efficiently and there might not have been a need as most women covered their legs.

So when did it start, or how did it start?