Why we are so impatient with romances about kings, queens and aristocracy, and
histories based on ego’s and events, what used to be called ”Great Men” history…
There’s recent non-imperial anthropology and archeology about the much richer, actual diversity of social forms :
David Graeber, David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
And there’s Michel Serres’
“thermodynamic” approach to history in his
Hermes series, and the
Birth of Physics