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Last book: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
This book is really informative if you want to learn the history of the Palestinian struggle for liberations. It makes an effort to recognize its successes and its faults as well as how they can do better. Fantastic book but it will break your heart. I had to read it pretty slowly because I could only stomach so many pages a day.
Current book: The Conquest of Mexico & The Conquest of Peru by William H. Prescott
I'm only 100 pages in and while it is good and most of the history holds up it has some faults. main fault is that the guy is kinda a white/euro supremacist by modern standards. He refers to many of the natives as barbarous and examines their worth by how "civilized" they were in one aspect or another. Does some pompous moralizing etc. I will give him that he doesn't necessarily attribute this to race and often refers to Spainish history as equally if not more barbarous, especially the inquisition. Credit where credit is due I guess. It was written in the 1840s so this is to be expected. Another flaw I'd like to mention is that the author tells the history as a sort of romantic narrative. Everything is heavily cited and like I said most of the history is accurate but due to the format he leans into the great man theory of history. Historical materialism was in its infancy at the time so he can't truly be blamed for this but his books must be read with an understanding of this limitation.
There's still people around saying that Native Americans deserved to be… displaced because they didn't use the land "properly".
Well yes but i don't consider those people part of modernity /s