Fantasy writers should read more history

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Read the original "Shadow Empires paper" here: https://www.academia.edu/57926206/The...

Non-ficion books mentioned (with applicable affiliate links):
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History by Thomas J. Barfield – https://amzn.to/4uXJbHA
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple – https://amzn.to/4eCYUpd
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester – https://amzn.to/4cpxNy2
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1 by Joseph Needham, abridged by Colin Ronan – https://amzn.to/4uR4Zo4
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C Scott – https://amzn.to/4sgfn7z
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott – https://amzn.to/44fohsj

Fantasy books mentioned (with applicable affiliate links):
Six of Crows (Grishaverse) by Leigh Bardugo – https://amzn.to/4uPyEOn
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn Saga #1) by Brandon Sanderson – https://amzn.to/4uU3zJs
The Grace of Kings (Dandelion Dynasty #1) by Ken Liu – https://amzn.to/4oMYBwM
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang – https://amzn.to/3Smmsr6
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution (not read) by R. F. Kuang – https://amzn.to/3ShxyxB

Chapters
0:00 – Shadow Empires
6:35 – Fantasy Worldbuilding
8:25 - Liu & Kuang critique
9:46 - IRL Indiana Jones
12:24 - The Anarchy
15:27 - Steal these stories
17:08 - Fixing GRRM with Shadow Empires
19:04 - Conclusion