/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17596445]

ITT: good books that explore economic history

[Anonymous No.17596518]

Posting the classic oil book

[Anonymous No.17596533]

[Anonymous No.17596546]

op that looks comfy af, i was thinking it does seem like textiles play an underrated role in the development of the world economy considering clothing could be one of the biggest technological breakthroughs other than maybe fire, too bad there's no audiobook version.

[Anonymous No.17596564]

not really a book but still worth a look

[Anonymous No.17596573]

>>17596445
The surefire way to get a book published if you're a niche academic is take broad concept related to your field and write: How (Blank) Made the World. It's borderline airport literature. Every Boomer has read one; it's why you can find almost any person over the age of 45 that has read a book in the last 10 years to bend your ear on how Oysters, the 'number' Zero, an obscure Venetian scholar, Running shoes, Coffee, Probability, Rum or the colour Blue are in fact the *real* lynchpin to history. Funny that.

[Anonymous No.17596599]

>>17596573
ops book is obviously intended to be assigned reading in the gen ed econ or history classes at a fashion school like parsons or fit, and if you don't realize the major role textiles played in the world economy you must be a big midwit. other than food, clothes are the only other thing you basically have to consume if you live in any kind of civilization. it's going to have an impact.

[Anonymous No.17596611]

>>17596599
>if you don't realize the major role textiles played in the world economy you must be a big midwit
Durrrr, textiles play big role Grug no need to learn anything else about them. Grug go bang rocks together now.

[Anonymous No.17596619]

>>17596546
>>17596546
>clothing could be one of the biggest technological breakthroughs
textiles are used for far more than clothes lad

>>17596573
>The surefire way to get a book published if you're a niche academic is take broad concept related to your field and write: How (Blank) Made the World. It's borderline airport literature.
Textiles have had a far larger impact than any of that shit

[Anonymous No.17596652]

Is this book any good? I'm thinking of reading it, but my library doesn't have it.

[Anonymous No.17596659]

>>17596599
Entire global revenue of textiles is 950 Billion. Oil is 3.3 Trillion. My point is, dumbass, many things influence world history and global economics such that writing one book with a central theme--regardless of how funademental (though the broader the theme the more idiots will be dazzled by its "unequivocal" generality)--is surefire midwit bait and most midwits bite on one or maybe a couple (like the food and fabric lure that you're dangling from.)

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[Anonymous No.17596670]

>>17596659
Since you're an expert and definitely not a midwit, why don't you recommend a book?

Also
>implying that current year revenue is the best way to measure what shaped the world over thousands of years
Oil didn't mean shit until the 1800s

[Anonymous No.17596682]

>>17596445
the og

[Anonymous No.17596689]

>>17596670
this, and oil won't mean shit after 2100.

[Anonymous No.17596691]

>>17596619
>Textiles have had a far larger impact than any of that shit

How about How Minerals Made the World? or fucking How Humans Made the World? Almost makes textile seems far less fundemental that you deranged brocade groupies would like to think.

[Anonymous No.17596694]

>>17596689
oil will be likes wales or whatever the fur was that made john jacob astor rich, a finite natural resource with little utility beyond a specific historical epoch. meanwhile, we're still using rope, still wearing silk, and still wearing denim.

[Anonymous No.17596697]

>>17596691
textiles aren't a natural resource through, they are a technology

[Anonymous No.17596704]

>>17596691
>How Humans Made the World?
Dude...

[Anonymous No.17596705]

>>17596670
Many things across history influence it's contours, economic or otherwise. To boil it down to one single things is the definition of midwit---unless you think blankly improbable generalisation is the key to understanding 'the world' and its entire manifestation across time.

[Anonymous No.17596712]

>>17596705
The book is about the role textiles played in shaping the modern world, not a book that argues textiles are the only thing that ever mattered you goof.

[Anonymous No.17596713]

>>17596705
woah, hold up, are you saying marx is wrong?

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[Anonymous No.17596718]

>>17596705
>midwit
you seem fond of this word, maybe take a look in the mirror
we all know that textiles wasn't a monadic entity that made the world, it's just a history of how this technology influenced it on a very large scale.

[Anonymous No.17596721]

>>17596712
it starts by talking about the string neanderthals in france used to make stone tools, so it's way more than just modern history, but it also isn't a modernist grand narrative considering it came out in 2020

[Anonymous No.17596731]

>>17596721
>so it's way more than just modern history
I meant it as how the invention and use of textiles came to shape the world we live in today, the book covers 1000s of years of history.

[Anonymous No.17596738]

>>17596660
if you want a less cranky and ideologically poisoned history of finance this is also good

[Anonymous No.17596747]

>>17596659
how shitposting instead of contributing anything shaped the modern world

[Anonymous No.17596753]

>>17596573
Don't be sour and just read it as "the world history of oysters"

[Anonymous No.17596756]

>>17596691
if you consider slavery in the united states was mainly to support the raw input for textiles mills, i think one could argue that more people have died over textiles than oil in america at least

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>>17596738
>less poisoned
>offers lye

[Anonymous No.17596862]

>>17596715
Looks interesting but you're a retarded tripfag so I won't read it (and I just left a one star review on all relevant sites).
Plus you will never be a woman

[Anonymous No.17596928]

The ascent of money by Niall Ferguson

[Anonymous No.17596936]

little known classic

[Anonymous No.17597002]

>>17596756
>slavery in the united states
cringe

[Anonymous No.17597293]

>>17596573
What book do you recommend?

[Anonymous No.17598164]

>>17597293
He’s the kind of guy who reads Wikipedia articles and pretends he reads books, he can’t recommend anything.

[Anonymous No.17599207]

>>17596715
i'm gonna read this just because of the author's name

[Anonymous No.17600185]

>>17596652
Bumping to see if anyone has read this book and has opinions or can recommend something similar about the topic.