Books by John Reader
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3. John Reader, The Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent . Not as good as his excellent book on Africa , but I liked the sections on potatoes in the Incan empire. This book could have been great, it isn't, but it is still above average.
John Reader’s Africa: A Biography of a Continent . Most of all it offers historical and geographic reasons why African development has proven so problematic. The author very frequently thinks in terms of mechanism , so it will be congenial to most economically-oriented readers. Have you wondered why slavery is so common in African history, or why African societies are so frequently conservative and obsessed with the veneration of elders? Why parasites can feast on humans so easily in Africa?...