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/his/ approved reading list 2016-05-30 14:32:48 Post No. 1214786
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/his/ approved reading list Anonymous 2016-05-30 14:32:48 Post No. 1214786 [Report]

Is their a reading list that somebody compiled similar to /mu/'s 'essentials' list?

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Anonymous 2016-05-30 14:35:51 Post No.1214799
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Anonymous 2016-05-30 14:35:51 Post No.1214799 [Report]

It would be a bullshit list filled with generalised pop-history.

Ask for books on a topic on /lit/ or /his/; pray someone who know their shit will respond.

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Anonymous 2016-05-30 14:36:12 Post No.1214801
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Anonymous 2016-05-30 14:36:12 Post No.1214801 [Report]

>>1214786
I dislike essential readings, they are most often meme books

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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:15:44 Post No.1214976
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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:15:44 Post No.1214976 [Report]

>>1214786
About the only field seminal texts I can think of are Whig Theory, Carr's What is History, and Thompson's Making.

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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:42:24 Post No.1215129
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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:42:24 Post No.1215129 [Report]

>>1214801
This.
Nothing is essential.

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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:50:16 Post No.1215184
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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:50:16 Post No.1215184 [Report]

>>1214786

>historically important tier

Herodotus - Histories
Thucydides - History of the Peloponesian War
Plutarch - Lives
Caesar - Gallic War
(this list could go on and on but you get the idea)

>historiography/philosophy of history

What is History? - E.H. Carr
The Philosophy of History - Hegel

>meme tier

Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond

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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:54:45 Post No.1215215
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Anonymous 2016-05-30 15:54:45 Post No.1215215 [Report]

Just read Herodotus, Thucydides, and Polybius