So say we have like, a finite amount of time, and there are probably better and worse compromises between “get the gist” and the main plot of history and “read thousands of pages of moderately difficult prose and probably miss the point anyway.” (Like you’re not mentioning that all these writers are writing against a context—forex, we shouldn’t assume Adam Smith would defend free markets in the Gilded Age, but he very much thought they were better than mercantile policy.)
So say we have like, a finite amount of time, and there are probably better and worse compromises between “get the gist” and the main plot of history and “read thousands of pages of moderately difficult prose and probably miss the point anyway.” (Like you’re not mentioning that all these writers are writing against a context—forex, we shouldn’t assume Adam Smith would defend free markets in the Gilded Age, but he very much thought they were better than mercantile policy.)
Any thoughts on learning that way?