2 Books Like Human Capital and Empire

It detailed the emergence of the British Empire in a way that highlighted the role the Indians played in it.

Since the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia more than thirty years ago, I have repeatedly been surprised and even shocked by the ignorance of history shown by policymakers and politicians, an ignorance which has its most recent terrible manifestation in the almost complete failure to anticipate the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Vanquished will in a few hours make its reader better informed than many of those paid to govern her. It demonstrates how the problems of Syria and the Levant (which can be read about in more detail in James Barr’s A Line in the Sand) and central and Eastern Europe remain a legacy of the First World War and the failure of equally ignorant policymakers a century ago to grasp the consequences of partitioning the lands of imperial Austria and the Ottomans in the crude manner they chose.