Link to Google Drive folder on History in my Stanford Alum Account - contains
Paul Kennedy, Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Kindleberger World Economic Primacy 1500 to 1900
Paul Bairoch: Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes
World War 2: History: Open Online Course from Harvard - World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II Course Themes include the impact of war on soldiers and civilians, on the home front, women in war, the Japanese and German viewpoints, and postwar issues. Films include Mrs. Miniver, The Pianist, The Winter War, So Proudly We Hail, Taking Sides, The Hiding Place, and The Cranes Are Flying
The Underground History Of American Education by John Taylor Gatto - Shows how education is not designed to educate but rather to indoctrinate.
The Great Transform: The Political And Economic Origins Of Our Time by Karl Polanyi - Shows how market economy arose in England, and how it attacked and destroyed traditional society and values, leading to worship of gold and loss of morals.
Summary_ Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney - Shows how accumulation of wealth became acceptable and desirable in England, when Christianity is against this.
Peter T Manicas: History and Philosophy of Social Sciences - Methodology of Physical Science was misunderstood and then applied to construct social science. The led to fatal flaws in foundations of social science.
Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Fantastic book shows how capitalism and capitalist theories were spread all over the world using pressure, politics and clever strategy. Also the disastrous effects of this.
LS Stavrianos: Global Rift, The Third World Comes of Age - This history shows how Western conquest of the world destroyed functioning societies everywhere, looted the riches of the world, and created the phenomenon of "underdevelopment". VERY important reading
J. M. Blaut: Eight Eurocentric Historians - The book describes how famous historians have argued that Europeans are superior to others, and why these arguments are wrong.
Findlay & O'Rourke: Power & Plenty - Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Eurocentric History - Links to collections of materials on Eurocentric History and its antidotes.
Barbara Tuchman: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam - Has chapter on Corruption of Popes, and how it led to the Protestant Revolt, with dramatic consequences on the history of Europe.