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kleinbl00 · 3180 days ago · link · · parent · post: Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit Fast Food
I will freely and gleefully recommend Destiny Disrupted. It's eminently readable, dryly humorous at times and greatly insightful. I have no idea how history is taught in your 'hood but here in These United States "the crusades" were "Europe trounces the shit out of Islam" and "the Ottoman Empire" is "that thing that somehow managed to spring up after we abandoned the Crusades." Ansary makes the point that "the crusades" were "oh, yeah, that thing that happened on the periphery while we were busy getting our asses kicked by Ghengis Khan" and "the Ottoman Empire" is "the political system that calcified and allowed Europe to slowly buy out the kingdom from the inside out."