Can we have a recommendation thread? Even a sharethread, if anybody has anything. Books and documentaries, any subject you want.
I'm currently reading pic related and it's pretty great.
> Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of just twenty years from 1795 to 1815. After seizing power in a coup d'état he ended the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade the laws of France and modernised her systems of education and administration. The impossibility of defeating his most persistent enemy, Great Britain, led him to make draining and ultimately fatal expeditions into Spain and Russia, where half a million Frenchmen died and his Empire began to unravel.
Can be found here on libgen
>http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FCBA94176FC184CC5E84253080CEFD61
And I have the three-part documentary to share as torrent as well, if anybody wants it.
>>1213607
Any good books on the Italian Wars?
>>1213607
Anything by E. Michael Jones
bump, no one else?
Can anybody recommend me some books/documentaries to become versed in American history? So far I've only gotten a fairly basic education in this subject because I live in europe.
>>1213719
try these maybe:
Kamen, Henry. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492–1763. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
>This book explains how a relatively minor European state, through a combination of dynastic alliances, military entrepreneurship, geographic advantages, and economic partnerships across Europe, forged the first global empire. Kamen highlights the military campaigns that made the establishment of this empire possible, but also the new organizations that enabled their consolidation. Originally titled Spain’s Road to Empire (London: Penguin, 2002).
http://bookzz.org/book/2210240/f433d7
check out this introductory list:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-9780195399301-0056.xml?rskey=PmmyFC&result=2&q=italian+warfare#firstMatch
one that stands out as relevant is the "renaissance at war", which has the following description:
:An excellent first introduction to the subject, focusing on the long 16th century, by a specialist in 16th-century Italian warfare with a broad understanding of military history. Images are used effectively to support the well-written text.
free dl:
http://bookzz.org/book/911468/560fe8
>>1215393
probably the oxford series on american history is the most comprehensive set of books. do you have a particular period in mind though anon?
>>1213719
The Pursuit of Italy is a good catchall for Italy and it's unification. I don't have anything super specific for it.
>>1215393
Wilsonian Moment is a good book about how the American ideology spread across the globe and how many groups became immediately disillusioned with it until the Post-War era.
>>1216915
>The Pursuit of Italy
>Visiting a villa built by Lorenzo de Medici outside Pisa, David Gilmour fell into conversation about the unification of Italy with a distinguished former minister: ''You know, Davide,' he said in a low conspiratorial voice, as if uttering a heresy, 'Garibaldi did Italy a great disservice. If he had not invaded Sicily and Naples, we in the north would have the richest and most civilized state in Europe.' After looking cautiously round the room he added in an even lower voice, 'Of course to the south we would have a neighbour like Egypt.''
Damn that sounds interesting. It's available on libgen as well
>>1213607
Absolutely great book, great overview of Napoleon and the man behind the battles. Also recommend SPQR by Mary Beard, good for broad look at Rome and it's origins. There is also a BBC documentary that is parallel to the book
>>1213607
This was pretty decent
>The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
>Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
I read this and it was awesome.
>>1216915
looking for something 1494-1559 but hat book you recommended is now on my todo list
>>1216700
thanks for the recommends, will be checking them out in the near future
Any reccomendations of Byzantines, the Romanov, or the Orthodox Church in general?
Im about to start Edward I by michael prestwich.
Anyone read it before?
>>1217987
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by Lars Brownworth
Was recommended to me by my history teacher.
Reading op's rec right now. Long but readable... lots of anecdotes to give you a feeling for the time, quite a lot of humor as well. Very well written.
Also for those of you studying for the gre, packed full of gre words. Seriously filled with them.
>>1213607
Good thread OP. Does anyone have any recommendations for books about ww2, specifically the eastern front? Currently reading Stalingrad and it's pretty great.
Novela número 13(I dont know if there is an english traslation). It is the story of some people trying to caught an expensive brittish horse during the Spanish civil war,in which they visit anarchist villages and their randon rules,which were based on reality).
Also the Spanish national bank published an article about anarchist currency which was pretty interesting. I will look at it and see if I can find a link
Pretty good, very good historian
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson
>In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this prelude to war” narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Traveling from Europe’s capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its future still undecided, its outlook still open.
>The world in 1913 was more modern than we remember, more similar to our own times than we expect, more globalized than ever before. The Gold Standard underpinned global flows of goods and money, while mass migration reshaped the world’s human geography. Steamships and sub-sea cables encircled the earth, along with new technologies and new ideas. Ford’s first assembly line cranked to life in 1913 in Detroit. The Woolworth Building went up in New York. While Mexico was in the midst of bloody revolution, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires boomed. An era of petro-geopolitics opened in Iran. China appeared to be awaking from its imperial slumber. Paris celebrated itself as the city of lightBerlin as the city of electricity.
>Full of fascinating characters, stories, and insights, 1913: In Search of the World before the Great War brings a lost world vividly back to life, with provocative implications for how we understand our past and how we think about our future.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E2AAC57413E51D5E24739F6BC07A2A14
The Fin-de-Siecle World by Michael Saler
>This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe.
>Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the "New Liberalism", and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=561DFB5B64BAEAD159BCEDCE49D09597
Any good books on Chinese history?
Reads almost like an adventure novel. About the 19th century Russian rivalry with Britain over Central Asia(With Russia's grand designs being on British India). If the book interests you, you should read Kim by Rudyard Kipling.
Books on the Punic Wars? I'm really interested in the politics in both Carthage and Rome
Well this was the most related thread I could find.
I am in need of interesting things to talk about on a podcast im going to start. Interesting is too broad, so ill ask it like this:
What is the most interesting thing you know of that is hard to talk about?
>>1221133
for a good overview of carthage, including good coverage on the punic wars, try Richard Mile's carthage must be destroyed.
free epub version:
http://bookzz.org/book/1193560/f1ed24
or free pdf version (though looks like a year older edition)
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=19953EA918125ACAAE138B7DEBAD4556
two other introductory works on Carthage besides Miles found here:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195389661/obo-9780195389661-0192.xml
as for coverage on the punic wars alone, check pic related, i.e. the section on "expansion in the west." goldsworthy might be a good read as i enjoyed his popular book on caesar. he specializes in military history though so he may now have as good a grasp of it as the other authors mentioned. but if you also have an interest in the military side of things there's:
Bishop, M. C., and J. C. Coulston. Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome. Oxford: Oxbow, 2006.
>Opening with three chapters on sources (pp. 1–48), the book offers a rapid and efficient survey of the development of Roman military equipment across a span of 600 years in five chapters (pp. 50–232). An important concluding section on the production of military equipment shows that, in the imperial period, it was produced in local workshops and stresses the difference between the equipment of legionaries and auxiliaries.
Daly, G. Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War. London: Routledge, 2002.
>Daly describes the lead-up to the infamous battle, traditional scholarly interpretations about the course of events, and the critical interpretation of our primary sources (especially Polybius).
>>1221569
cont.
Austin, Norman J. E., and N. Boris Rankov. Exploratio: Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
>A well-sourced study of intelligence (operational, strategic and tactical, foreign and domestic, political and military). The sources are unevenly distributed (in favor of the empire), but the authors should be commended for their ambitious scope. Careful attention here to seconded soldiers and governors’ staffs.
a different description of a book mentioned in the previous pic:
Richardson, John S. Hispaniae: Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism, 218–82 BC. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
>Careful study of Rome’s Spanish provinciae (with detail on that word’s use over time) and the several campaigns there; relevant to the Second Punic War, early Roman imperialism (where Richardson sees aggressive, defensive, and economic motives all at play), and Roman military history in general during the Middle Republic.
pic related for another set of books the seems to cover the second punic war mostly
>>1220956
any period in particular? chinese history is tremendous
>>1219158
check out this set of general overviews:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0050.xml
there seems to be some overlap with the works here:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0052.xml
this one on stalingrad seems to contain the most works focusing on the eastern front exclusively rather than russian military history in general
also:
annotated bibliography on georgii zhukov
http://pastebin.com/902sxX4C
if your into diplomacy, here's one on wwii diplomatic and political relations:
http://pastebin.com/xV4aKfRG
>>1217987
for early romanovs, this bibliography on early modern russia may be of use
http://pastebin.com/TDQppdcQ
for wwi russia
http://pastebin.com/pXpVr0cx
general russian military history
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0083.xml?rskey=AjY0Gz&result=4&q=russian+army#firstMatch
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0052.xml?rskey=AjY0Gz&result=6&q=russian+army#firstMatch
byzantine art and architecture
http://pastebin.com/fYdy6Tgy
fall of constantinople (covers late byzantine history as well)
http://pastebin.com/BwqT3MML
battle of manzikert (covers mid-byzantine and late byz. history too)
http://pastebin.com/NmSYinEa
crusades (section on "islam and crusades" and the 4th crusades especially)
http://pastebin.com/7h8fASgv
I've got access to Bibliotik, taking requests for books not found elsewhere.
>>inb4 invite plox, ain't got none
>>1221569
>>1221596
Thank you anon.
Do you know which book they are refering to when they say Goldsworthy 2002? He wrote "The Punic Wars" in 2000 and "The Fall of Carthage" in 2003. Are there multiple editions of "The Punic Wars" and one came out in 2002? I think might start with a Goldsworthy book as a jumping off point and then do the Dexter Hoyos book in the second picture.
Thank you again, I was not expecting anywhere near this amount of research. Just another reminder why this is my favorite board.
>>1221684
I'm really interested in the Tang and Song dynasties, but a general history of the imperial eras would be nice. I've read a book about Mao, the fall of the Qing, and the Boxer Rebellion but I'd like some of the earlier history.
>>1221748
it looks like they are two different versions of the same books by goldsworthy
Looking for books on European history. This good?
>>1221837
Ok, thank you
Any good WW1 books?
>>1221969
"The Guns of August" by Barbara W Tuchman is supposed to be good I think. It mainly focuses on the first month
>>1221980
Forgot to mention, it won the Pulitzer in 1963
>>1221781
i have just the thing then:
Middle period china
http://pastebin.com/QnHDUF1M
ctrl f tang or song ;^)
extras:
neoconfucianism (which developed mostly in the song dynasty iirc)
http://pastebin.com/y76L34aq
medieval economic revolution, which is explained by the intro paragraph:
>In China’s historical context, the term “medieval” was unmistakably borrowed from European history in as late as the 20th century. It has, however, remained questionable whether this Eurocentric unilinear logic really ever conveniently suited China. Even so, a serious historian may still make do with the term to capture what was going on in China from the Sui until the early Ming, from 581 to c. 1500 across a span close to a millennium, or anything in between. The beginning was marked by the construction of the Grand Canal, over one thousand miles long, during the Sui (581–618), which linked for the first time China’s three major river systems, and hence the three most productive regions, together: the Yellow, Huai, and Yangzi valleys. During the early Ming, China maintained an undisputed first-class sea power in the world. It was a period when private education, secular literature, meritocratic bureaucracy, novel technology and new production, degrees and commercialization, urbanization, and so forth reached an unprecedented height on the East Asian mainland. During this long period, the importance of Tang-Song growth and development loomed large. So much so, the Song period was coined in the 1980s by the world economic historian Eric L. Jones, in his book The European Miracle, as the first recorded intensive growth in Eurasian history. However, the term “revolution” was first used by Shiba Yoshinobu (斯波義信), the Japanese historian of China, to describe commercial growth under the Song, in his 1970 monograph Commerce and Society in Sung China. In reality, what happed was not just economic.
>>1222114
cont.
>It was a wide range of new achievements in institutions, science and technology, production, and market exchanges. Most unfortunately, however, Song growth and development, remarkable as it was, was brutally interrupted by the invading Mongols in the 13th century, who ran sociopolitical and economic systems that were distinctively different from those of the Song. The Mongol rule of China was very short, but the damage was done. Although during the following Ming period (1368–1644) some residual effects of the Song revolution were still detectable, it was marked by a quite different growth trajectory along the line of physiocracy. China’s medieval economic revolution never repeated itself. Such turns and twists in China’s fortunes through history underlie the Great Divergence debate.
http://pastebin.com/qfJ5tHvw
This thread should be the boards sticky/general.
The only productive/noteworthy thread I have seen so far on this board.
>>1215393
Flight of the Eagle by Conrad Black is pretty good at explaining why the decisions are made.
>>1222119
for general imperial history- John Fairbank's China: A New History
it's chinese history condensed into 300 pages by one of the most renowned china historians of the 20th century
http://bookzz.org/book/754646/0b79a7
>>1221847
dunno about davies, but going off the praise of his history of poland here it would probably be good. another alternative to him are the oxford short histories series on Europe, of which i found four for free downloading on libgen:
classical greece 500-323b.c.
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=21235CA6EEF371B49FFA4305E46DABB2
central middle ages
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=4D5A7B29F8705426AFF4ADA4A37E4223
the sixteenth century
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=9F750EA3AEFC468E40A21B449423E2C3
europe since 1945
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=0277C3BE68BC9FF1DF03EB746B78D5FE
do you want to study a certain period of european history though?
Do you want to study a particular period in depth though?
>>1222287
woops repeated myself twice...
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason K. Stearns is one of the finest books on the Congolese wars of 1997-2005. Brilliant recounts of the political turmoil, the different factions involved and the motives behind every massacre.
Anyone interested in the story of central Africa should seriously pick up this book.
>>1221969
I quite enjoyed Dreadnought by Robert K. Massie but that is about the events in the decades before the war that lead to it rather than the war itself.
Any good books about the conquest of the Americas? Spanish books also accepted.
>>1222576
some of these i've seen on bookzz and libgen but im too lazy to check:
Elliott, J. H. Spain and Its World, 1500–1700. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.
>Divided into four sections on America, Europe, the royal court, and the question of decline. Collected studies representing thirty years of the author’s research. Includes such suggestive essays as “Art and Decline in Seventeenth-Century Spain” and “The Discovery of America and the Discovery of Man.”
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
>The clearest and most ambitious survey of the early modern Spanish transatlantic empire.
Thomas, Hugh. Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan. New York: Random House, 2005.
>Panoramic view in ten “books” divided into thirty-eight discrete chapters of Spain’s inexorable march toward New World dominion. A minor irritation is the author’s decision to use translated catchphrases to name every chapter. The result is that this lengthy book is somewhat hard to navigate. Contains extensive appendixes of registered ships, family trees, and the costs of becoming an emperor in 1519.
>>1223153
Lovett, A. W. Early Habsburg Spain, 1517–1598. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
>Focuses on the reigns of Charles V and Philip II. Considers their roles in transforming the kingdom of Castile into a world power. Includes coverage of the conquests of Mexico and Peru, the revolt of the Netherlands, the defeat of the armada, and the Inquisition. Also takes into account regional differences within Iberia and conflicts with unassimilated Jews.
this might be relevant:
Mignolo, Walter. The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization. 2d ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003.
>Examines the impact of an imported literate culture on the culture of Spanish America, and the understanding achieved by European authors of Native American culture and its semi-literate or quasi-literate products, primarily in the 16th century.
Gibson, Charles. Spain in America. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
>Gibson’s work synthesizes the research since the publication of Haring 1947.
Haring, C. H. The Spanish Empire in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947.
>Haring’s work is the classic text on the establishment of Spanish institutions in the Americas. The author’s description of Spanish dominance has been challenged by recent research.
Parry, J. H. The Spanish Seaborne Empire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
>A parallel volume to Boxer 1991. Also older (first published in 1966 [London: Hutchinson]) but valuable.
Lockhart, James, and Stuart B. Schwartz. Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil. Cambridge Latin American Studies 46. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
>Sophisticated volume by two of the foremost scholars of colonial Iberian America. Probably best suited to upper-division classes. Includes a useful annotated bibliography.
Just want to thank you all for this thread, I'll download a few when I get home in about eight hours or so.
I'd recommend this book on, mostly, Athens. It has to do with the Attican greeks and their way of life, thinking and governing.
A few notes here and there on Dorian greeks and Sparta, the author clearly disliking them.
Also from the same publisher, The Romans. Not as easy to read, from a different author, but just as solid.
>>1213607
Can't believe /his/ never talks about pic related.
>In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow—banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another—to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the twentieth. His central argument is that a commercial transformation of world society in the eleventh century caused military activity to respond increasingly to market forces as well as to the commands of rulers. Only in our own time, suggests McNeill, are command economies replacing the market control of large-scale human effort. The Pursuit of Power does not solve the problems of the present, but its discoveries, hypotheses, and sheer breadth of learning do offer a perspective on our current fears and, as McNeill hopes, "a ground for wiser action."
>"No summary can do justice to McNeill's intricate, encyclopedic treatment. . . . McNeill's erudition is stunning, as he moves easily from European to Chinese and Islamic cultures and from military and technological to socio-economic and political developments. The result is a grand synthesis of sweeping proportions and interdisciplinary character that tells us almost as much about the history of butter as the history of guns. . . . McNeill's larger accomplishment is to remind us that all humankind has a shared past and, particularly with regard to its choice of weapons and warfare, a shared stake in the future."—Stuart Rochester, Washington Post Book World
This is pretty great for beginners and personally got me into philosophy
>>1221969
The first world war by John Keegan or any WWI books by professor Hew Strachan will probably give you a pretty good overview of the war
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Cristopher Clark
>With its capital in Berlin, Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval state into one of the most vigorous and powerful countries in Europe, the scourge of its many enemies and, ultimately, the motor behind the creation of the German Empire in 1871 with all that implied for the 20th century. After the Second World War Prussia, which had still continued to exist as part of the German state, was abolished by the Allies, blamed for the overwhelming militarism that had led Europe into total disaster. Prussia's role in Europe's fortunes has been incalculable and "Iron Kingdom" is, extraordinarily, the first major book devoted to it. Prussia's power came from a sequence of notably brilliant rulers (most famously Frederick the Great), dynastic marriage and an obsessive focus on military excellence. It was both a progressive, well-run, enlightened country and a huge, threatening barracks. "Iron Kingdom" is a wonderfully readable, gripping account of a state which, for both good and ill, has fundamentally shaped our world.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=AE0F3BF197D9FE8731DDC2A0E5CEE50A
Anyone read Anthony Everitt's "Cicero: a Turbulent Life"? I see Everitt wrote two separate fucking Cicero biographies, lol fucking why?
I was wondering if anyone had a preference one way or the other, I just bought A Turbulent Life so I was wondering if it was good or not
Anyone got any Normans in southern Italy/Sicily suggestions? .
>>1218239
He's a bit of a joke as a historian. That said i enjoyed the book.
>>1220956
I recommend Cambridge Illustrated History of China, for this general overview of Chinese history. Very interesting, lots of high quality pictures. Its a 'real' book despite the title.
Best books about Rasputin and Russia during that period of time?
>>1224332
may just be two different editions
>>1224279
maybe these?
Bulliet, Richard. The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
>Bulliet’s argument is often the starting point for discussions of Muslim-Christian relations in the Mediterranean as a whole.
Catlos, Brian. Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom: c. 1050–1614. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
>This is an excellent examination of Muslims (often North African Berbers) under Christian rule.
Scaglione, Aldo. Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
>A highly detailed study by an Italianist scholar. Black-and-white illustrations.
this article has a section on exactly what you need but I cant access it :(
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0143.xml
>>1225034
download this book and look at the extensive bibliography. you're sure to find something on the period
http://bookzz.org/book/894096/5cac44
>>1225034
>and Russia during that period of time
Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia is a great social history of Russia in the late 19th early/20th century. It was written by a woman who traveled all over Russia during the fin de siecle and wrote down her experiences to document Russia as it was. Quite literally one of the first social history works ever written and certainly the first written on Russia.
>>1213607
Reading this at the moment. It's really interesting :)
>>1225203
If you read VLiLTR be prepared to read about women and infanticide pretty often. It was pretty fucking common in Russia at the time.
>>1225214
Oh hey, I have that exact book sitting 10 feet away from me.
/his/ wiki when?
>>1213607
Do you have the torrent for the documentary?
Just started reading this, first impression's pretty good.
>>1225328
Hopefully never. This is the only good recommended reading thread I've seen since this board was created. Generally speaking, these threads are full of memebooks or other garbage-tier books not worth the paper they're written on.
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon
>Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. In Water, Steven Solomon offers the first-ever narrative portrait of the power struggles, personalities, and breakthroughs that have shaped humanity from antiquity's earliest civilizations, the Roman Empire, medieval China, and Islam's golden age to Europe's rise, the steam-powered Industrial Revolution, and America's century. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century's decisive, looming challenges and is driving the new political, economic, and environmental realities across the globe.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4F6E89178AAD7F9A5247D7D626CD3C16
Read this a while back, super informative, definitely recommended.
I'm looking for a book on the history of buddhism. Any reccs?
Currently reading "In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses From the Pali Canon", but I'm lacking the understanding of the different branches and general history of buddhism.
Legions of Rome: The Definitive History of Every Imperial Roman Legion by Stephen Dando-Collins
Pretty cool read for Romaboos. It details basically every Legion and its important battles and contributions. Its written so its really easy to digest, and it has a lot of anecdotes about regular Roman soldiers whose actions are still remembered.
>>1225367
this is the torrent file
>https://u.pomf.is/pddcvq.torrent
I'm going to bed in a bit so I'll turn my computer off, but I'll seed all of tomorrow until you complete your dl. Let me know if there's any issues.
Also, I recommend watching the series first, and then reading the book for greater depth.
>>1225536
check out this
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/buddhism
only the introductory works are shown on these articles, but those alone will keep you occupied a while
>>1225587
Thank you! This will indeed keep me busy for a while.
>>1213607
>"Simply Dynamite"
Hah!
does anyone have any recs for bactria, specifically the efffects of greek conquests in the area?
>>1226363
http://pastebin.com/JQKwB1GT
ctrl f bactria
>>1213607
The Pooh Perplex by F. Crews
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=A44DC7C2B471B1BC5C088CF9BDF8677E
Short and entertaining, and lets you laugh at academics
I'm enjoying this at the moment. He likes to shit on everyone else who has written about the Thirty Years War though.
I just want to say that this thread is amazing.
>>1213607
>I'm currently reading pic related and it's pretty great.
I've read it and it's great
>>1216915
>The Pursuit of Italy is a good catchall for Italy and it's unification.
It was too broad for my tastes
>>1227051
Just downed a big book on 30 years war by Dick Harrisson(swedish author) and I felt it wasn't analytical enough
>>1227959
Frogive me anon, I'm very much a casual reader of history so I'm not entirely sure what you mean when you say analytical here but for what it's worth I'm about a quarter of the way through the book and it's still covering the decades leading up to the war from the perspective of various partcipants to give a sense of why things happened the way that they did. For example a chapter is given to the Spanish and Dutch each and their conflict to explain how it impacted upon the German princes and their political considerations.
For what my opinion is worth it doesn't really feel like a casual read like say an Antony Beevor book or Iron Kingdom here >>1224279 and although I occaisonally find my self a tad overwhelmed I'm still having a blast.
>>1227959
are you interested in a particular perspective on the war (say, sweden or spain?) or just the war in general?
Is this any good? I'm very interested in life in medieval/renaissance times, but not sure if this book does a good job...
This is probably asked a lot, but...
Any good recs for the byzantine empire from the fall of the western empire to the fall of constantinople? There are a ton of books covering Byzantium, but obviously I'm looking for a really good one, that goes into pretty good depth chronologically.
>>1229687
did you check out the byzantine stuff on the bottom of this post?
>>1221684
I've started, but haven't finished the, Byzantine state and society by Warren Treadgold. It clocks at around 800 pages, but the100 pages i've read have been good and since it covers the entirety of Byzantine history it may be what you're after. I've culled the other "general works" from the pastebin above, but these don't cover all of byzantine history in one volume:
Jenkins, Romilly. Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries A.D. 610–1071. New York: Random House, 1966.
>This well-known study of Byzantine politics and culture begins with the reign of Heraclius and ends with a brief but balanced description of the Byzantine defeat at Manzikert. Describes the battle as politically and militarily disastrous, precipitated by court machinations and poor Byzantine generalship in the face of a capable enemy.
Angold, Michael. The Byzantine Empire, 1025–1204. 2d ed. London: Longman, 1997.
>Although not strong on the connection between Byzantine military and society (see Haldon 1999, cited under War and Society in 11th-Century Byzantium), Angold’s history of the period between the death of Basil II and the Fourth Crusade offers a fine section on the early reign of Alexius Comnenus.
Haldon, John. Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565–1204. London: Routledge, 1999.
>Well researched and cited, with extensive notes. Haldon is equally adept in describing the changing political and strategic circumstances faced by Byzantium over this period, as well as the implementation of the thematic and tagmatic military systems. Describes Manzikert as more a political defeat than a disastrous military event.
there are other comprehensive works on the byzantine empire i've seen discussed before, namely ostrogorsky's and norwich's three volume set. ostrogorsky's book is around 700 pages and I've heard good things about it.
cont.
>>1223339
anyone got some input on this?
>>1229842
On the other hand, Ostrogorsky's book is written in the late 60's, with revised edition published in the 80s as far as I know. In comparison, Treadgold's work is probably more up to date, though I'm sure you'd learn a great amount from Ostrogorsky. I can't speak to Ostro's style, but having tried to start Norwich's work on Venice, I found that I had to put it down because his book was more like a story than history, and his writing style was too long-winded to my taste. I'd reckon his volumes on Byzantium would be the same (though I'm sure other anons may disagree with me on this)
>>1229860
I read parts of the book when I was working on a school project in high school. I liked what I read and I hope to read it in the future. Also, in the 1960s Mcneill won numerous awards for writing a comprehensible history of the world (the rise of the west I think it's called), which is probably the best entry point for someone who wants a historical foundation. So considering his ability to capture the scope of history, I think that the Pursuit of Power should be good as well.
>>1229878
>>1229860
>>1223339
anybody want any of these? Pursuit of power is not avaliable, unfortunately.
>>1230152
this is from bookzz
rise of the west:
http://bookzz.org/book/1280786/32cc62
pursuit of power
http://bookzz.org/book/910352/b4c215
>>1230241
Thank you
>>1230414
hmm try downloading calibre maybe? that works with mobi and epubs i think. other than that I don't know, try google for help i guess
>>1221711
Can you find a biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio? Specifically the new one by Lucy Hughes-Hallet, but any would be great; I can't find anything.
How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters - Daniel Hannan
Non UK version goes by the title 'Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World'
>>1213607
I just read this. It was fucking brilliant even as a Brit.
Is asking for fiction allowed? If so, I'd like something set in the Age of Sail that isn't Jack Aubrey or Hornblower. If not ignore this
>>1233812
I don't have any for you, but if you don't get replies try /lit/. If you can stand their air of superiority, you'll get good advice.
>>1233812
Hannibal, by Gisbert Haefs
Looking for a good book on neo liberalism that isn't bias, how difficult that may be.
>>1232944
>WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION: The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, daredevil - and Fascist. In September 1919 Gabriele D'Annunzio, successful poet and occasional politician, declared himself Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern-day Croatia. His intention - to establish a utopia based on his fascist and artistic ideals. It was the dramatic pinnacle to an outrageous career. Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the controversial life of D'Annunzio, the debauched artist who became a national hero. His evolution from idealist Romantic to radical right-wing revolutionary is a political parable. Through his ideological journey, culminating in the failure of the Fiume endeavour, we witness the political turbulence of early 20th-century Europe and the emergence of fascism. In The Pike, Hughes-Hallett addresses the cult of nationalism and the origins of political extremism - and at the centre of the book stands the charismatic D'Annunzio: a figure as deplorable as he is fascinating.
https://u.pomf.is/iwrmqi.epub
And here is this one >>1223339
https://u.pomf.is/wpgffe.epub
Does anyone have a good book on the Spanish-American war?
>>1235172
check this out, theres a couple books on it here:
http://pastebin.com/0p8PFt0T
>>1219532
i was thinking of reading this one, what exactly did you like about it?
>>1235250
not him, nor did i read that book... but lieven was the general editor of this book >>1225144, and he wrote the first chapter and several others. I liked his first chapter a lot [its like 20-40 pages] (i haven't gotten much further than that), so maybe you should check out what he writes there for a sample of his writing style and general ideas. If you see what you like you can continue on with that anon's book rec.
>>1235568
ah thx
this is freaking expensive but iirc i might be able to download it for free
(no libraries in the shithole where i live)
>>1235729
Not who you're responding to but I've been able to find everything I wanted itt on bookzz. The only problem I've had was a book that was in .epub or .mobi and I don't have a way to read it. I'm new to this stuff but I would recommend this
>>1235743
here's your pdf senpai
http://en.bookfi.net/s/?q=cambridge+history+russia+&t=0
I am reading "The End" Ian Kershaw and it's preety good.
>>1235765
I'm not sure which anon you think I am, the pdf I couldn't find was The Rise of the West by William H McNeill. If anyone has it I would appreciate it.
Thanks for the website recommendation though, do you know if is this one better or comparable to bookzz?
>>1225214
>Reading this at the moment. It's really interesting :)
I remember reading that in one sitting years ago.
Good times.
This book (originally in English) is like Guns, Germs and Steel, but shorter and less pushy in it moralism.
>>1235800
this site is russian - which is good bcs they have no copyright laws. their collection is really random, you might not be able to find a classic and then find an otherwise very rare book.
this one is not bad either
https://sites.google.com/site/themetalibrary/library-genesis
>>1235949
kek
//this post// is by me but thx anyway
i see pdfs as the very last resort, i usually try to buy for cheap on amazon *if* i know the book is worth it.
>>1235949
I googled and it said I would need to download something so I figured I would ask around one last time before getting calibre
>>1234434
Thank you so much, man. I really appreciate it.
What are some good books on the Yugoslav Wars? Also the Balkan Wars
>>1217296
Solid read. Shows how fragile monumental ideas are without the medium of mass communication. Education of the masses leads to results and change without widespread communication a great idea is as delicate as a butterfly's wings.
>>1213607
Forgotten soldier. It's the autobiography of a guy from Alsace Lorraine who joined the Wehrmacht and fought on the Eastern front. He may have made up or embellished his story but it's a fucking sweet read.
Any good stuff regarding the United States post-Civil War to around the time of TR or World War I? Mainly some higher level political-focused stuff on the big players of the era (Presidents, Conkling, Blaine, etc.) since the more social history stuff about class and the like seems fairly easy to come by. Reading Peskin's Garfield biography got me pretty into wanting to read more about that era.
Any good books on the 100-year war? I really don't know anything about it, other than it was France vs England. A good book on Joan of Arc would also be appreciated. Thanks!
>>1235743
hey senpai, i forgot to mention yesterday. if you have kindle or some other ebook reader you can reader all pdfs in mobi and read there it is very convenient.
if not you might consider getting one. it is not as good as the good ol fashioned book, but you can have literally hundreds of books for free. it is pretty if like me you have no access to a major library and need stuff for your research.
cheers
>>1237476
i had an autism attack while editing this message but im sure you get the gist of it senpai
>>1236411
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Yugoslavia
>>1237508
I was thinking about this documentary just the other day. It's great but I wonder if there's a follow up. Death of Yugoslavia was made in 1995 when the conflict was far from over.
>>1235172
War Lovers is pretty good. That's what I remember because it was one of the two books I referenced the most in my thesis about this war. Actually I'd even fucking recommend it too if it was available to read online anywhere. Just remember that USS Maine was inconsequential.
Anything about the British Empire? I know about the books by Ferguson and Brendon but I need more. I'm intersted in different opinions about its legacy.
>>1237538
The other was called The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century. Just skip the chapters about Czolgosz.
>>1237538
this one?
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=D5E27445E188AC7D5BFEEAB72AE39562
>>1237558
Yeah it helped me a lot. Of course one book isn't enough. I mean there are encyclopedias about the Spanish-American War but nothing with a narrative. War Lovers shows why some influential Americans were so eager to fight and it's quite fascinating.
Can anyone recommend any books on Scandinavian folklore? I'm especially looking for stories of folk heros. Also, I would love some recommendations for books on Germanic Folklore
>>1237548
>history book
>written by a journalist
That's almost always a thing that'll make me go "nope" and not even bother, same as when pople recommend Destiny of the Republic (regarding Garfield's assassination).
>>1228698
I wanted to know the most recent research and in what way older historians were wrong. None of that though.
>>1228018
It covers the war pretty well but he doesn't disclose what information is new or not. Also, he went a bit overboard while leapfrogging and tended to overuse his ground perspective
>>1237538
sweet, i'll check it out
>>1237447
'Conquest' covers the last 45 years when England was losing. It also covers the most recent research on Jean d'arc
Can't google now but I think it was by Julia Andrews
>>1238783
I don't know who he is but the book immediately peaked my interest among many others I had with lots of handy information, statistics, official acts, diplomacy and other stff necessary if you want to write about the reasons for this war which by the way had nothing to do with Maine, Hurst or Yellow Journalism although that probably helped to attract some volunteers.
I know it's pretty recent, but any Cold War stuff?
>>1225559
hey could you seed the torrent, the speed is atrocious
Master list of bibliographies:
http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
>>1239214
I'm seeding at 450kb/s right now, I don't think I can do any better
>>1221847
Norman Davies is great, and his language is often hauntingly beautiful. I found this to be very good and quite interesting, though I suppose much of it will be old news to people who read a lot of history. The chapters on Burgundy and Lithuania are superb.
>>1239435
He's well known in Poland (which gets kind of annoying when in his books about fucking history he stops to talk a bit about the current political situation and why he think party A is better than party B) but what about Britain? His book about WWII was pretty good and I'm gonna read The Isles soon.
What are some good books about the Mafia, Yakuza, and Triads?
>>1239417
thanks it's bretty good
>>1239435
that cover makes the book seem comfy as fuck. Will read soon
>>1239458
There's a chapter in there which is nominally about Alt Clud but talks more about the Celtic parts of post-Roman Britain overall. It's quite in depth and he comes across as very passionate about it, having traveled a lot to personally inspect burial sites and carved stones and such. I've head The Isles is terrific and I can believe it.
>>1237476
>>1237503
Thank you, I think I have an old nook (the Barnes and Noble ereader because for some reason my dad thought Amazon would go out of business soon so he didn't want to buy something from them that would screw us over if they went under) at my parent's house, I'll have to dig it out. It'll also be easier than reading books on my computer I bet
>>1239472
Well Tokyo Vice is the most popular one which is supposed to be a "non-fiction" book about Jake Adelstein's covering police/yakuza stories for the Yomiuri Shimbun but I've seen a lot of people call out Adelstein as a liar who constantly embellishes things, inserts himself in situations or outright makes stories up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/3lnpt6/is_jake_adelstein_a_good_source_for_investigative/cv8rz57
That goes into a pretty nice list of all the bullshit in the book that Adelstein tries to pass off as "non-fiction" but it's all very cinematic and plays into the "mysterious and culturall strange Asia" thing so of course people eat it up.
tl;dr Jake Adelstein is a delusional faggot who believes he lived in an Asian neo-noir film.
>>1237529
afaik this is the best documentary (and book) out there for the general public.
you can see they spent lots of money to do it because in the mid-nineties the Yugo wars were seen as a really big thing.
Fast forward a few years (911) and Yugo wars look like an irrelevant episode in Europe's past.
>>1235873
It also offers a much more measured argument for determinism as a factor in European success in the new world, rather than "Whites aren't special we just got lucky" it's more "Two ecosystems met each other when the continents did, and here's how that played with the civilizational struggles which followed."
The Measure of Reality is actually this author's best book, though. It's a history of measurement, whether that be time, weight, or accounting, over the course of the late middle ages and the early renaissance.
Anything by Dan Jones is really good. I read the books about the Plantagenets and the War of the Roses, they were very good
>>1239555
He prefers the older history. I guess his chapters about say 20th century is mostly ranting against Margaret Thatcher.
>>1239789
nvm got it thanks !
>>1239178
I have a few books about Cold War LatAm if you're interested.
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic and The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere are really good at outlining US cold war pressure on Latin America. The former also covers US Cuban relations before and after the CW, but it primarily focuses on Cuba after 1959.
>>1240002
Thanks friend, anything is appreciated.
>>1239985
op here, I can't atm, but will continue to seed tomorrow and until the thread dies, don't worry
>>1240015
many thx senpai, appreciated
>>1240012
If you're interested in the Eastern side of things, I also recommend anything by Ann Applebaum. I read both Gulag and Iron Curtain in college. Under a Cruel Star by Heda Margolius Kovaly is a good look at Czechoslovakia until 1968.
>>1237447
bibliography on hundred years war
http://pastebin.com/ajDGmXmg
>>1237544
these may not be to your taste but I found them on a bibliography:
Coombes, Annie E. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture, and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994.
>Museum exhibitions, which celebrated colonialism and portrayed Africans as primitives, served as the English public’s primary source of information about Africa during the period between the Benin punitive expedition of 1897 and 1913.
Lyons, Charles H. To Wash an Aethiop White: British Ideas about Black African Educability, 1530–1960. New York: Teachers College Press, 1975.
>Race thinking was already present in the 16th century and became a justification in the colonial period for educating an African elite to be British rather than educating African masses to be educated Africans.
>>1240154
i'll post more on the british empire soon if you can hold out
>>1240154
>http://pastebin.com/ajDGmXmg
is the pastebin from the oxford bibliography service?
>>1240220
I take them from the site, but it's not affiliated with them, I just post it here for my fellow /his/torians
>>1213607
Forgive me for being a retard but how do I use this link?
Is it like a torrent or what?
Best books on pre-1979 Afghanistan?
>>1240015
download complete, many thanks senpai
>>1242227
it's OK to be an autist on 4chan.
You download the torrent file. When you open it your torrent programme should open to, and asks whether you want to download. You answer yes.
>>1242718
It's not about pre-1979 but about the Soviet-Afghan war, but contains lots of info on society, traditions etc and I found it exceptionally good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Photographer_(comics)
>>1237544
>>1240161 here. back with books on british imperialism (though these pics focus on the middle east)
1/3
>>1244386
>>1244393
3/3
Anything good on the Spanish Succession? If any memoirs exist, that would be nice.
>>1245728
although this article is on the seven years war, it looks like it offers a few resrouces for 18th century primary sources.
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0055.xml
this as well:
Lynn, John. The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714. London: Longman, 1999.
>An excellent survey of the period.
Lynn, John A. Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610–1715. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
>Comprehensive study of the French army during the 17th century. Covers such topics as administration, recruitment, logistics, strategy, and weapons. Argues that the army was a successful example of absolutist state building; in fact, it grew faster than the state that sustained it.
>>1246405
also pic related is on english war machine in the 18th century
>>1236718
The only things I've got are these annotated bibliographies on:
Ulysses Grant (his generalship and his presidency post-civil war)
http://pastebin.com/6D7W0PML
The US presidency (which covers all the presidents but might cover the post civil war ones)
http://pastebin.com/yAPqX1bW
victorian travel writing (probably has travel writing from anglo and american perspective in exotic environments. might also have anglo travel writings in usa and canada)
![Leviathan_by_Thomas_Hobbes[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2zcRzaf.jpg "Leviathan_by_Thomas_Hobbes[1].jpg")
Recommending this to understand the historical outlook people had for authority and the state.
Also shared by some modern right wingers.
>>1213607
I read at least 6 history books a year, here are some selections I think are particularly good.
Bismarck: A Life
The Iron Kingdom
Lords of the Sea
Napoleon's Wars
The Eagles Die
Munich: The Price of Peace
Bitter Glory
Villa to Village
1913: The Year Before the Storm
Worlds At War
Orientalism
The Rocket and the Reich
History of Friedrich II Called the Great
>>1247139
Are you actually into history as a job (teaching, research, writing, etc) or is it just a hobby for you?
Your tastes seem very focused.
>>1219595
Holy shit, this is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. I've always had an insatiable interest in the turn of the century prior to WWI, and haven't been able to find anything covering it thoroughly.
Osprey books are always pretty interesting. Even if they'd rather spend 15 pages on military uniforms as opposed to battles and historical events.
>>1239132
Found this, thanks for the rec. It's by Juliet Barker, btw.
This is more about philosophy but it does cover the history of philosophy as well, what do you think of Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder? I had to read it in high school and recently I've been referring to it to get an overview about philosophers I'm not familiar with. Do you guys know how well done it is? I'm not super knowledgeable about philosophy
>>1247588
>Osprey
Can you guys tell me about some good books on:
>Easter Rising and/or Irish Independence Wars
>Korean war
>>1247455
I'm a man with a 160 IQ who is frequently unemployed.
What's some good book on the 30 year war for someone casually into history? I'm interested in the period and I'd like to do a d&d game with a 30 year war setting with my bros one day but I'm not that big of a history buff.
Thanks
>>1227051
I am reading that aswell right now. Very thorough and very good.
>>1249013
peter wilson
http://bookzz.org/book/1198377/26293d
c.v. wedgewood for a less "professional" and more romantic take on the war
http://bookzz.org/book/2592377/0cfcdb
geoffrey parker, is a short but comprehensive survey, but might be too dull for your taste
http://bookzz.org/book/1126744/28fbe7
>>1248375
the introductory books in the following links
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0110.xml?rskey=v8sTmi&result=7&q=irish#firstMatch
and
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0042.xml?rskey=v8sTmi&result=2&q=irish#firstMatch
as for korean war, youll find books on it in these annotated bibliographies (use ctrl f)
politics of south korea
http://pastebin.com/SpdZEiDK
cold war, 1945-1991
http://pastebin.com/eEbXk5kp
politics of north korea
http://pastebin.com/yTutJN0e
>>1228766
I read it, was recommended to me by my AP Euro Civ history, it was pretty decent. The first half is hella interesting then it just goes into Magellan's exploration and it gets boring.
bumping and reiterating my question
>>1248332
bump i guess
Im currently interested in the faroe islands and am having a really shit time finding books on its history, pic related being the closest ive gotten
1. does anyone know if pic related is any good?
2. any other books on faroese history
>Ctrl+F
>no "Alexiad"
disappointed lads
>>1256260
That book is mostly about Holland/Flanders in the medieval era.
Does anyone have a pdf version of one of these books:
Stalin’s Cold War: Soviet Strategies in Europe, 1943–1956
Russia’s Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall.
>>1256599
well fuck
>>1256260
The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History
>Stranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are part of "the unknown Western Europe" -- a region of recent economic development and subnational peoples facing uncertain futures. This book tells the remarkable story of the Faroes' cultural survival since their Viking settlement in the early ninth century.
>At first an unruly little republic, the islands soon became tributary to Norway, dwindled into a Danish-Norwegian mercantilist fiefdom, and in 1816 were made a Danish province. Today, however, they are an internally self-governing Danish dependency, with a prosperous export fishery and a rich intellectual life carried out in the local language, Faroese.
The only thing is, it's a fucking pdf, which I despise with all my heart. I can share it if you want.
>>1256590
excellent meme anon
>>1257646
Well, if you can upload it, do it, please.
>>1257646
I agree anon. Nothing it worse than searching for a book you want to read to find only one link to a PDF.
I'd rather just find nothing at all.
>>1257743
Jonathan Wylie - The Faroe Islands - Interpretations of History_Rebjl.pdf
>https://u.pomf.is/xlfgct.pdf
Anything good about Richard Nixon focusing both on his policies and his interesting character?
>>1256260
you can try this annotated bibliography on early modern scandinavia
http://pastebin.com/2gAMTL1t
there are books on iceland and other scandinavian countries, but not on the faroe islands itself it looks like. However, I'm sure that the bibliographies at least one of these books would contain some suggestions on the faroe islands (especially that of the cambridge history of scandinavia vol. 1).
free dl to cambridge history:
http://bookzz.org/book/660135/8d2d0d
>>1258656
one more thing, in the cambridge book the faroe islands are referred to as "Foroyar"
>>1257802
Thanks.
Anyone know any books reccomendations for the imperial period of Iranian history. If not any specifically on the Sasanian period.
Also book recommendations on the Caucasus region.
This is what I have been waiting for, would any of you gusy would recommend Ken Follet books? I don't really care for the literary value, if there are entertaining accurate books I'll get into them.
>>1257992
>Anything good about Richard Nixon focusing both on his policies and his interesting character?
maybe this book:
Hult, Karen M., and Charles E. Walcott. Empowering the White House: Governance under Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
>In this theoretically informed study, the authors examine how Richard Nixon changed the institutional presidency to augment the power of the White House and continues to influence how his successors have governed. More than any predecessor, Nixon expanded his staff and systematized outreach, legal advice, and policy formulation.
Greenberg, David. Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image. New York: Norton, 2003.
>Greenberg explicates key aspects of Nixon’s relationship to American conservatism, chronicling Nixon’s continuing popularity among some American conservatives. Greenberg explains the refashioning of American conservatism in the 1970s, between Nixon’s failure and Reagan’s success.
Mergel, Sarah. Conservative Intellectuals and Richard Nixon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
>Many historians have scrutinized the relationship between Reagan and the intellectuals. Mergel looks back to an earlier moment, to the 1970s. She makes the revisionist argument that conservative intellectuals gained valuable experience as allies of Richard Nixon and that they drew upon this experience long after Watergate and other scandals had faded into the past.
Qureshi, Lubna Z. Nixon, Kissenger, and Allende: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Coup in Chile. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2009.
>Qureshi argues that Nixon and Kissinger were more concerned about the threat to US hegemony posed by the election of Allende than about its threat to the physical security of the United States. They feared that Allende-like candidates would subsequently be elected in other Latin American countries, which would undermine the US hegemony.
>>1259467
see the introductory section of this article (the rest of which focuses on the relation between persia and the old testament)
http://pastebin.com/G8s9riZr
these are two primary source collections on sassanid-roman relations, but i think more focused on the perspective of the latter:
Dodgeon, Michael H., and Samuel N. C. Lieu, eds. 1991. The Roman eastern frontier and the Persian wars (AD 226–363). London: Routledge.
>On the relations between Rome and Persia from the foundation of the Sassanian Empire to the reign of Julian.
Greatrex, Geoffrey, and Samuel N. C. Lieu, eds. 2002. The Roman eastern frontier and the Persian wars (AD 363–630). London: Routledge.
>On the relations between Rome and Persia from the failure of Julian to the victory of Heraclius.
if you can get an encyclopedia kek:
Bowersock, Glen W., Peter R. L. Brown, and Oleg Grabar, eds. Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
>Offers encyclopedic entries on late Roman military subjects such as Alaric, Attila, barbarian settlements, bucellarii, comitatus, conscription, espionage, foederati, fortifications, Huns, Isauria, limes, Sassanians, and Vandals; see notitiae (p. 612) for the Notitia dignitatum. Brent Shaw’s intelligent essay on late ancient war (pp. 130–169) is highly recommended.
dunno if you're interested in the safavids, but I've got an annotated bibliography on them too, and there is a section called The Safavids as “Empire” which discusses the extent to which they were an empire and also their comparison to the ottoman and mughal empires.
http://pastebin.com/rWLhMrUv
>>1260338
also for caucasus:
http://pastebin.com/wkQfH6fL
>Qureshi argues that Nixon and Kissinger were more concerned about the threat to US hegemony posed by the election of Allende than about its threat to the physical security of the United States. They feared that Allende-like candidates would subsequently be elected in other Latin American countries, which would undermine the US hegemony.
...I was unaware that anyone disputed this theory. What scholar claims that Allende's Chile was a "threat to the physical security of the United States"?
Seems like the author is defending a position from an opposing theory that has no support.
Like
"Hey guys, in this paper I argue that the US invaded Iraq because Hussein threatened the stability of the region and our economic interests there, NOT out of fear that Iraq was going to attack us first."
>>1260857
not necessarily. historians engage with a historical tradition, or what they call historiography. So maybe then a historical tradition argues that Nixon was paranoid of communists or a marxist argues that the Chilean bourgeois appealed for US help and then exploited that assistance to overthrow Allende. These are just rough hypotheses I just thought up, but it's possible that there are more nuanced arguments that, if one reinterprets, looks closely at the evidence or uses new primary sources, casts a new light on the evidence that requires a revision of the original hypothesis/theory.
But yeah Qureshi's theory seems to just restate "domino theory" in other words. It still might be a good book nonetheless for those interested in the overthrow of Pinochet.
Does anybody have any good books on political radicalism and labor unrest in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
I got this book about the Bonus Army and it made me interested in politics during that time.
>>1261030
Kingfish is a good book about Huey Long who was involved in both until he was assassinated in the mid 1930's. There's also the book War is a Racket by Smedley Butler.
>>1260984
Oh I'm not arguing with the idea that historians ought to address previous theories that they intend to revise.
I just thought this theory in particular (that Chile "posed a threat" to the US) seems sort of incongruous. I've done a fair amount of research and reading with regard to latin american coups, regime changes and socialist movements, and never really came across evidence of the US actually fearing direct problems from LatAm Socialist governments. All our actions seemed more to be couched in the Domino Theory or a fear that socialism would negatively impact our economic holdings in LatAm.
Just seems like a weird theory to be "debunking" for a historian, rather than one of the more prominent ones that preceded the domino theory.
Prob an interesting read either way, everything about latin america fascinates me.
>>1261056
>and never really came across evidence of the US actually fearing direct problems from LatAm Socialist governments
What. This is inexplicably false after 1954, even more false after 1959 and even falser still after 1961. The U.S. saw ANY socialist influence from this point forward as a potential missile base for the Soviets, not just a pretense for Domino Theory. Allende didn't just have to go because he was a Socialist. Allende had to go because he was getting cushy the with Soviet Union. Do you even Cold War politik?
>>1261061
sorry, i misinterpreted what they meant by "threat". Was thinking in terms of attempts at actual direct action by chilean agents or the like.
I had assumed that the threat of soviet expansion was viewed as an aspect of domino theory, that the key reason for stopping the spread of communism was really stopping the spread of jump-off points for soviet missile/troop bases.
you prob know quite a bit more than me about the global scale cold-war politics, I am far more focused on the internal politics of LatAm states and their interactions with US (esp. regarding the spread of neoliberal policies)
>>1261090
>you prob know quite a bit more than me about the global scale cold-war politics, I am far more focused on the internal politics of LatAm states and their interactions with US (esp. regarding the spread of neoliberal policies)
Then you should still know better. LatAm was the U.S.'s Cold War playground. People always think of Western Europe or East Asia as America's playground, but really it was Latin America. Hell, there's a reason that Cold War Latin America classes focus instead on US-LatAm relations instead of LatAm alone.
Two requests:
>Ancient Mediterranean civilizations (Egypt, Phoenicians, Greeks, etc)
>15th-18th century eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, etc)
Looking for anything you got; extensive and in depth research, high school tier textbooks, even historical fiction if it's well researched
Who is the Dan Carlin of books?
>>1261169
Something like History Without the Boring Parts.
What are the best biographies of Stalin?
>>1261925
Stalin has no good biography.
All of them are either very limited, only looking at 1930-1945, or paint him as a caricature, a monster, manifestation of evil.
I don't remember the author, but I've skimmed through an otherwise academic looking book that argues he is the antichrist.
If you are anything like me, you are looking for a book that paints hm as a human who has an idea, a goal, and is ready to do anything to achieve it.
So an idealist sacrificing millions for his dream, rather than someone who enjoys signing documents that have whole towns starve and whole nations walking through the desert to relocate.
In that case, you are shit out of luck. All books about Stalin read like a cartoon script, or a D&D campaign.
>>1262028
>Instead of someone who enjoys signing documents that has whole towns starve
But that's who he was you retarded communist apologist. Go fuck yourself.
>>1262038
>if you don't think stalin is cartoon evil you are a commie
See, this is why there are no good books about the man.
Because if you want to know what he was like, you must be a communist, and if you are a communist, you should die.
No, he wasn't evil for evil's sake. He didn't enjoy murder or death.
He wanted to do something, and that something required many people dead, so he killed them.
It is the absolute in pragmatism and idealism, mixed with some incompetence. No evil to be seen, as is almost always the case.
People are very, very rarely evil. The only evil people are the severely mentally ill.
>>1262051
Your post said that you want him humanized yet you went on to describe him as romanticized.
He was not "human". He was a sociopath. He didn't have dreams. He was a narcissist. He killed millions not for a dream or for some kind of philosophical goal; he killed millions to make himself stronger.
>>1262058
>>1262059
>stalin wasnt human and didnt have dreams
Okay, I think we are done here. Next time you want to discuss history or literature, distance yourself from the material and be neutral and rational.
>>1262066
>Neutral and rational
It's neutral to say that Stalin was evil. He did evil things to accomplish an evil goal. It's rational to say this.
Trying to humanize and romanticize Stalinism is as biased and impartial as a historian can get.
>>1218300
Got thoughts or recommendation on The Doubter's Companion and On Equilibrium?
>>1261143
Bumping this
>>1262882
A man named Thompson wrote an extensive book on the History of Russia up through the Soviet Union. I didn't read the Soyuz part, because there are better books out there, but the Pre-Soyuz portion was well detailed considering the long period of time.
>>1261143
Here's a bib on hellenistic greek history
http://pastebin.com/JQKwB1GT
pic related is on archaic to classical greeks. also got one on republican rome (among other bibs on rome) as well, but I've got nothing on the phoenicians and egyptians, though earlier in the thread i made some recommendations on carthage
>15th-18th century eastern Europe (Poland, Russia, etc)
polish-lithuanian commonwealth
http://pastebin.com/r0ZTJbvK
kingdom of hungary (though most works on here look like theyre in hungarian)
http://pastebin.com/tXNWAiLH
Russia and Muscovy
http://pastebin.com/TDQppdcQ
Ottoman Empire (for the balkans)
http://pastebin.com/EqmE0f0g
>>1263634
also for the balkans
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0133.xml?rskey=SwM1nf&result=6&q=balkans#firstMatch
2/4
>>1263644
3/4
>>1263649
>>1213607
Not exactly a recommendation, but I've seen in a number of WW2 threads, this one guy (at least I think it's one guy) continually recommend this Douglas Porch book about the war in the Mediterranean. It's called the Path to Victory, IIRC.
Does anyone know if it's any good, or is this someone shilling?
Anyone know of a good book on Japan's Unit 731?
