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The history section of the book price index is incredibly america-biased. History of america, american natives, japan after ww2 and vietnam in the last century.


That is what Sells. The USA has a lot of people so selling to us is going to make money even in a niche subject like history.

Historians who are not trying to sell mass market books have a much broader set of books. You won't see them in a normal bookstore.


And the irony of it is that the U.S. is actually quite history-poor, when compared to Europe, North Africa, Middle-East, Persia, China, Central Asia and India.




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