Elle (ellexamines on TT & Substack)’s Reviews > Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind > Status Update

Liked most of this book so far but have some strong critiques of its chapter on empire – It fails to truly embrace the degree to which a colonized people can also influence the colonizer. The colonized may adapt the colonizer’s culture – but the inverse is also true, and this is left as subtext. I also think a section on empire as ‘not bad’ falls quite flat without any engagement in postcolonial studies.