Brenner Barclay’s Reviews > A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History > Status Update

isn't the ontologically flat materialism supposed to remove some of the eurocentrism? in the conversation about atlantic colonization being enabled by combining different weather circuits the claim that other sailing communities "would never try" that technique seems to be nonsensical, wouldnt the consistent claim be those communities had to reason to invent those technologies?

there are few times where ill say something is straight up wrong but these conceptions of "Islam" as a single coherent force consistently from the time of the original conquest through 1300 on makes absolutely no sense to me, speak Maghrebi in Damascus or Msr and tell me "Islam" is one singular coherent political structure