You could also look at the Introduction to Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
July 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You could also look at the Introduction to Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
I don’t get why people hate Yuval Harrari’s book so much. Less so why they dislike him & wonder “why he has a career”. Other “big history” writers (Diamond, Fernandez Armesto, Graeber) don’t get half as much hate. The book is not good (an understatement), I get it. But it’s not worse than any other.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I don’t get why people hate Yuval Harrari’s book so much. Less so why they dislike him & wonder “why he has a career”. Other “big history” writers (Diamond, Fernandez Armesto, Graeber) don’t get half as much hate. The book is not good (an understatement), I get it. But it’s not worse than any other.
'The portraitist paints the sitter with his palette: Cercas likes the world he inhabits – lay-minded, sexually unforbidding, democratic, unheeding of eternity.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
A Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
www.the-tls.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
'The portraitist paints the sitter with his palette: Cercas likes the world he inhabits – lay-minded, sexually unforbidding, democratic, unheeding of eternity.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on a Spanish novelist’s portrait of Pope Francis
'Most of Anglo-America was an English Pale where ‘Indians’ were extruded, exterminated or marginalized.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
Putting the blame on Spain
www.the-tls.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
'Most of Anglo-America was an English Pale where ‘Indians’ were extruded, exterminated or marginalized.'
Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Why Anglo-American colonialism has no claim to moral superiority
"We live in a Mickey Mouse world in which images flicker with the speed of animation and confusion is treated as a good." Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto #booksky #bookchallenge #readers #booklovers
December 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"We live in a Mickey Mouse world in which images flicker with the speed of animation and confusion is treated as a good." Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto #booksky #bookchallenge #readers #booklovers
In an island-state, where even a food stand is awarded bibgourmand or Michelin star, was tempted by this book "“Near a Thousand Tables
A History of Food"👇🏻 - So I bought it.
💙📚
#Books #booksky #nonfiction #fiction #translations
#foodporn #foodfanatic
A History of Food"👇🏻 - So I bought it.
💙📚
#Books #booksky #nonfiction #fiction #translations
#foodporn #foodfanatic
February 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In an island-state, where even a food stand is awarded bibgourmand or Michelin star, was tempted by this book "“Near a Thousand Tables
A History of Food"👇🏻 - So I bought it.
💙📚
#Books #booksky #nonfiction #fiction #translations
#foodporn #foodfanatic
A History of Food"👇🏻 - So I bought it.
💙📚
#Books #booksky #nonfiction #fiction #translations
#foodporn #foodfanatic
‘As the best novel I read this year was by my wife, I can only recommend nonfiction.’ Priceless. Filipe Fernández-Armesto in @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year, this week.
November 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM
‘As the best novel I read this year was by my wife, I can only recommend nonfiction.’ Priceless. Filipe Fernández-Armesto in @thetls.bsky.social Books of the Year, this week.
Well, look like we got *that* period covered.
November 17, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Well, look like we got *that* period covered.
As someone who took a class taught by Prof. Fernandez Armesto, I had no idea he had a reputation as a pop historian. Given that said class was called "Humans and Other Apes," I also cannot say that I am surprised.
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
As someone who took a class taught by Prof. Fernandez Armesto, I had no idea he had a reputation as a pop historian. Given that said class was called "Humans and Other Apes," I also cannot say that I am surprised.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day #2
Truth - A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day #2
Truth - A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
November 7, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day #2
Truth - A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#BookSky
💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge
Day #2
Truth - A History and a Guide for the Perplexed, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Making Magellan's legacy yet more murky, the records which remain about his round-the-world expedition are scant. Most of what we know about Magellan is thanks to his onboard chronicler Antonio Pigafetta, who acted as the navigator's assistant – but has been characterised by Fernández-Armesto as […]
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January 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Making Magellan's legacy yet more murky, the records which remain about his round-the-world expedition are scant. Most of what we know about Magellan is thanks to his onboard chronicler Antonio Pigafetta, who acted as the navigator's assistant – but has been characterised by Fernández-Armesto as […]
No listen later link to Friday's column.
Instead, here's a pic of Rufus, unimpressed by the fact that my lap is filled with books and not him.
#Cats #Catsky #FoodWriter
Instead, here's a pic of Rufus, unimpressed by the fact that my lap is filled with books and not him.
#Cats #Catsky #FoodWriter
October 17, 2024 at 12:49 AM
No listen later link to Friday's column.
Instead, here's a pic of Rufus, unimpressed by the fact that my lap is filled with books and not him.
#Cats #Catsky #FoodWriter
Instead, here's a pic of Rufus, unimpressed by the fact that my lap is filled with books and not him.
#Cats #Catsky #FoodWriter
🆕 Indo Gold Pty Limited v. Republic of India PCA Case No 2024-51
pca-cpa.org/en/cases/343/
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Arbitrators:
- Prof. Juan Fernández-Armesto (Presiding Arbitrator)
- Prof. Stanimir A. Alexandrov
- Justice L. Nageswara Rao
pca-cpa.org/en/cases/343/
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Arbitrators:
- Prof. Juan Fernández-Armesto (Presiding Arbitrator)
- Prof. Stanimir A. Alexandrov
- Justice L. Nageswara Rao
January 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🆕 Indo Gold Pty Limited v. Republic of India PCA Case No 2024-51
pca-cpa.org/en/cases/343/
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Arbitrators:
- Prof. Juan Fernández-Armesto (Presiding Arbitrator)
- Prof. Stanimir A. Alexandrov
- Justice L. Nageswara Rao
pca-cpa.org/en/cases/343/
UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Arbitrators:
- Prof. Juan Fernández-Armesto (Presiding Arbitrator)
- Prof. Stanimir A. Alexandrov
- Justice L. Nageswara Rao
Today's inductees into the #NewImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi, from a charity donations sale to restock a municipal library one high-speed rail stop away (all bought for R300 / €15.63 / £13.15 / US$17 / MT1085.52).
🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🚆🌳🍃🪻🌍⛅️
🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🚆🌳🍃🪻🌍⛅️
October 31, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Today's inductees into the #NewImperialLibrary in #NorthJozi, from a charity donations sale to restock a municipal library one high-speed rail stop away (all bought for R300 / €15.63 / £13.15 / US$17 / MT1085.52).
🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🚆🌳🍃🪻🌍⛅️
🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🚆🌳🍃🪻🌍⛅️
Fernández-Armesto reviews Grandin in the TLS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/f...
Fernández-Armesto Reviews Grandin, America, América, in the TLS, May 9, 2025
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, “Putting the Blame on Spain: Why Anglo-American Colonialism Has No Claim to Moral Superiority,” Times Literary Supplement, No. 6371, 2025.
emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fernández-Armesto reviews Grandin in the TLS emspanishhistorynotes.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/f...
A project I’m about half way through is logging the books in the loft and boxing (about 25 per box)
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A project I’m about half way through is logging the books in the loft and boxing (about 25 per box)
“Ideas, as far as we can tell at present, are probably psychic, not organic or material. Except for people who believe in ‘memes’ (the ‘units of culture’ Richard Dawkins dreamed up to behave like genes)”
Excerpt From
Out of Our Minds
FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE.
Excerpt From
Out of Our Minds
FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE.
May 25, 2023 at 5:34 AM
“Ideas, as far as we can tell at present, are probably psychic, not organic or material. Except for people who believe in ‘memes’ (the ‘units of culture’ Richard Dawkins dreamed up to behave like genes)”
Excerpt From
Out of Our Minds
FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE.
Excerpt From
Out of Our Minds
FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE.
"Widowhood remained the best option for women who wanted freedom and influence. The most remarkable feature of this situation, which might have tempted wives to murder, is that so many husbands survived it."
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.
The funniest thing about the planned male dominated future to me (YMMV) is the ways women would end their unwanted marriages. The average home and yard are full of lethal options before you get to blunt objects, knives, or guns. That "good old days" mythos never mentions murder clusters.
February 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"Widowhood remained the best option for women who wanted freedom and influence. The most remarkable feature of this situation, which might have tempted wives to murder, is that so many husbands survived it."
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.
Woodhouse Investment Pte and West Cumbria Mining v United Kingdom (ICSID Case No. ARB/25/37)
Nov 18, 2025 - Tribunal is constituted in accordance with Article 37(2)(a) of the ICSID Convention. Its members are:
Juan Fernández-Armesto
Michael Pryles
Sean D. Murphy
icsid.worldbank.org/cases/case-d...
Nov 18, 2025 - Tribunal is constituted in accordance with Article 37(2)(a) of the ICSID Convention. Its members are:
Juan Fernández-Armesto
Michael Pryles
Sean D. Murphy
icsid.worldbank.org/cases/case-d...
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Woodhouse Investment Pte and West Cumbria Mining v United Kingdom (ICSID Case No. ARB/25/37)
Nov 18, 2025 - Tribunal is constituted in accordance with Article 37(2)(a) of the ICSID Convention. Its members are:
Juan Fernández-Armesto
Michael Pryles
Sean D. Murphy
icsid.worldbank.org/cases/case-d...
Nov 18, 2025 - Tribunal is constituted in accordance with Article 37(2)(a) of the ICSID Convention. Its members are:
Juan Fernández-Armesto
Michael Pryles
Sean D. Murphy
icsid.worldbank.org/cases/case-d...
I got my friend the Afro-Latino people history of the US but that’s gonna be another us centric view.
There’s a pretty short good history book about the Americas as a whole and how the US is stole the name of two continents (or that’s what I remember),
The Americas / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
There’s a pretty short good history book about the Americas as a whole and how the US is stole the name of two continents (or that’s what I remember),
The Americas / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
October 9, 2024 at 8:55 AM
I got my friend the Afro-Latino people history of the US but that’s gonna be another us centric view.
There’s a pretty short good history book about the Americas as a whole and how the US is stole the name of two continents (or that’s what I remember),
The Americas / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
There’s a pretty short good history book about the Americas as a whole and how the US is stole the name of two continents (or that’s what I remember),
The Americas / Felipe Fernández-Armesto
May I suggest the unlikely sounding Felipe Fernandez-Armesto as a candidate. Hear here 🧐:
x.com/prodnose/statu… bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
x.com/prodnose/statu… bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Aristocracy
Melvyn Bragg examines the origins, power and eventual decline of the British aristocracy.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
May I suggest the unlikely sounding Felipe Fernandez-Armesto as a candidate. Hear here 🧐:
x.com/prodnose/statu… bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
x.com/prodnose/statu… bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
@LornestoToledo @Iraqesque @tomstandage In the meantime, Near A Thousand Tables by Fernandez-Armesto is quite good.
December 3, 2024 at 7:39 AM
@LornestoToledo @Iraqesque @tomstandage In the meantime, Near A Thousand Tables by Fernandez-Armesto is quite good.
#AmerigoVespucci was born in Florence #OnThisDay in 1451; of course, neither he nor his fellow Italian Cristoforo Colombo actually 'discovered' #America — that credit goes to indigenous Native Americans — but at least the New World wasn't named for the genocidaire~!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo...
March 9, 2024 at 7:32 PM
#AmerigoVespucci was born in Florence #OnThisDay in 1451; of course, neither he nor his fellow Italian Cristoforo Colombo actually 'discovered' #America — that credit goes to indigenous Native Americans — but at least the New World wasn't named for the genocidaire~!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo...
"Widowhood remained the best option for women who wanted freedom and influence. The most remarkable feature of this situation, which might have tempted wives to murder, is that so many husbands survived it."
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.
Also, research shows that when anti-violence shelters come to a region, the murder rate against women ticks down a tiny amount, but the murder rate of men by women falls off a cliff.
When women have other ways out of a bad relationships, they take them. When they have no hope, they kill.
When women have other ways out of a bad relationships, they take them. When they have no hope, they kill.
The murder rate against men in Canada dropped most significantly in a short amount of time when Canada made divorce legal.
June 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"Widowhood remained the best option for women who wanted freedom and influence. The most remarkable feature of this situation, which might have tempted wives to murder, is that so many husbands survived it."
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A Global History (2007), p. 643.