All Quiet On The Western Front by Remarque
Storm Of Steel by Junger
World War One by Stone
1917 (movie) by Mendes
Hardcore History: Blueprint For Armageddon (podcast) by Dan Carlin
The Great War by Hart
World War I by SLA Marshall
A Storm in Flanders by Groom
To End All Wars by Hochschild
The Weimar Republic by Snyder
A History Of The Weimar Republic by Hanson & Waite
Germany’s Aims In The First World War by Fischer
Germany And The Two World Wars by Hillgruber
The Beauty And The Sorrow by Englund
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systemsto relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goodsthat is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the a
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