Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction

This series will really make you examine social hierarchies, including the ones that exist today. They are no accident.

It's a fitting title to describe life today for most people.

When you get to the end, remember that's how many to most black people lived until very recently until they were expelled from the land with nothing, due to the rise of more efficient farming techniques. The very few who owned their own land were more slowly pushed out when they were denied farm loans. Black people owned about 15 million acres of land in 1910, now they own about 1 million.

I can recommend reading ACOUP to any technically minded person even if it's about history.

I haven't had the time to read this series yet but I can recommend for example his articles about the industrial revolution, making of iron and steel or sieges in the Lord of the Rings compares to read world tactics.

He has a knack for analyzing society from a systems level perspective and going into the right amount of depth for somebody who wants to understand the principles without having any background in history.

If you enjoy even a smidge of this, please look at other articles/series on their blog, ACOUP is absolutely phenomenal and I've not seen many writers (here also historian and tenured professor) both be so accessible and graspable while having a deep and nuanced understanding of the situation AND providing ample sources.

10/10 couldn't recommend more.

I believe the Sparta series is the most popular, but I really enjoyed the one on iron.