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I’m serious like. What is the ideological and economic history of settler colonialism and eurocentrism. So much of the history of how the world got fucked up seems to be “they were copying the British/America” but like what is the origin of the Anglo-Saxons being so fucked up and evil. Why and how did this one island become so fucking powerful and to develop this self image as being so superior to everyone and like, to the point of developing race science.

I don’t want Your Take on it I’m completely disinterested in that right now. I want recommendations on history books about this.

Henry VIII declared himself a direct descendant of Aphrodite/Venus and therefore claimed/coined “Divine Right of Kings” and declare there to be a “British Empire” and himself the head of the Church of England (which worships Jesus and not Aphrodite for some reason). Where the fuck did that come from. What is the history of that. He used the money he saved from no longer giving money to the Catholic Church to make a stronger navy to conquer wales, Scotland, and Ireland. What are good books about this moment. I don’t give a shit about his six wives I want the empire ideology and economics and psyche as it pertains to geopolitics and nationalism.

Why is the Battle of Troy so important to European history and identity and national origin myths when Troy isn’t even in Europe. The entire geographic distinction between Europe and Asia seems very ideological and social what is the history of that.

I guess like I don’t want a history of Europe so much as I want a history of the concept of Europe. Of the European nationalism and why Europeans kept trying to conquer the entire world when nobody else had really seemed that interested in that. Why Europeans started fabricating mythologies that posit their entire continent to be superior to the whole world, when no other continent really tried to do that. How was Europe able to be strong enough to conquer the whole world when places like China and India had historically been so much stronger than Europe for so much longer than all of European history even goes back to.

Like, a lot of it comes back to Rome and to Alexandria the Great but a lot of that history isn’t even in Europe and surely the idea that fucking Vikings had anything to do with that and should be considered superior to the world would have begun that long ago. Who were the first people to write about that stuff. What is the history of white supremacist ideology before there was even the concept of white.

If you have book recommendations covering any of these questions please put them in the comments. Books please.