What /his/ books are you reading?
What /his/ books do you recommend?
History and other humanities both welcome, we're all brothers here.
I'm currently reading the Landmark Herodotus, a big fat brick of the Histories with annotations from historians, translators and geographers, crammed full of maps and with a good inch of appendices explaining the historical context of every facet of what Herodotus talks about, along with his inaccuracies. Apparently there are equivalent editions of Thucydides and Xenophon as well.
Along with this, I recommend David Howarth's The Voyage of the Armada, which details the Spanish side of the Anglo-Spanish conflict of 1588. It's the best book I've read on the subject, but also the only one, so I welcome any objections to it.
I've just ordered Polybius' Histories (Oxford World's Classics Edition) and I'll soon order Plutarch's Lives (Complete Modern Library Edition). Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War (Oxford World's Classics Edition) arrived yesterday.
>>317553
Nice! Are you doing the Greek history train too?
Also, how are those Oxford editions? I've got a copy of Tacitus I haven't yet opened.
I haven't read much history but Anthony Everitt's Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician was excellent
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Well-written, balanced, informative, albeit a little bit dated by now, it's still a great introductory book for Ukrainian history. I'm on 19th century and Galicia now (and my edition is different too but whatever).
Fuck me is it depressing in a lot of places, though, but that's not the author's fault.
>>317665
Do you think it would be better to read a good history on Russia before tackling this?
>>317633
I've 'Started with the Greeks' and I've read A Brief History of Ancient Greece by Pomeroy and others, Herodotus' Histories (Oxford version, not as good as Landmark but it was a great experience), Thucydide's Pellopenesian War (same as Oxford in terms of Oxford/Landmark), and I've just ordered Kagan's Pellopenesian War. I read their /lit/ as well, still reading through Plato (he wrote a lot).
Oxford Edition's are great tho mate, good intros, notes etc -- Landmark are better for the histories however, but more expensive.
Just started this (inb4 /pol/)
>>317769
What's supposedly /pol/ about it?
>>317778
Its central thesis is that darwinian selection during the middle ages made western europeans better than everyone else.
>>317761
I've got Thucydides, Xenophon, Arrian and Polybius lined up after Herodotus, and then I'm unsure if I should switch to the Romans or look into Greek history within the Roman Empire, which would take me up to Byzantium one way or another.
Persian history also seems worth looking into, are there any central texts as far as that goes?
>>317785
I can see how that would rustle feathers. I'd argue that political strife is largely what propelled the region to dominance, as each little kingdom and nation-state was in constant competition with their neighbors.
>>317542
Just finished The Ottoman Centuries a while ago, while it does have a certain pro-british outlook and a massive boner of Lord Stratford Canning its a pretty good history of the ottoman empire from start to finish
>>317721
Definitely no if you want to learn Ukrainian history specifically; and even with the history of the region Subtelny gives just enough background for you not to get lost.
Ukraine in pretty much all Russian history books is written in a completely fucking ridiculous fashion:
>Kievan Rus
>Then the small principalities broke up
>Then Kingdom of Halych-Volhynia is covered in brief
>Then out of nowhere cossacks
>Then literally fucking nothing, even Ukrainian Independence War of 1917-1920 isn't covered at all
That, and Subtelny gives a lot of the time to disprove some of the more popular Soviet historical myths. One can think it's useless and outdated by now but they're still clearly present in Russian mind and pop history.
>>317816
>popular Soviet historical myths
Example?
>>317816
i get a lot of history books free on Librivox, listened to A History of Russia from the Remotest Period to the Present Time a while back and found it pretty interesting. the early history of the region and constant backstabbing and betrayal can get old after a while
>>317810
>I'd argue that political strife is largely what propelled the region to dominance, as each little kingdom and nation-state was in constant competition with their neighbors.
Actually, Europe if anything was more peaceful than other parts of the world.
>>317827
>Unified Kievan state
>Three East Slavic nations being the same in the beginning and only gradually starting to have differences (this is the big one, the pillar of Russian imperialism)
>Normanism and antinormanism
>Cossacks wanting to join Muscovy because of "reunification" or whatever reasons
I'd imagine all of the 20th century period is also radically different and less retarded, obviously, but I haven't got to that part yet.
>>317800
No idea I'm afraid--I'm not much of a Historian myself. Try this site: https://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook05.asp
>>317800
that's a solid run bro; enjoy it!
i just picked up an out of print copy of The Life of Themistocles by AJ Podlecki, which i'll start sometime this week
>>317800
>Persian history
check pic related
bookzz.org
to dl some free
Im a byzantine empire pleb who only knows what everybody else does about this niggas. Recommended books?
>>317913
Based on a quick wikipedia of the guy, sounds like you've got a fun read ahead of you.
Ostracization is an interesting custom desu
>>319886
heres some Bibliographies. they have narrow titles but they actually provide a wide range of books from byzantine history
Fall of Constantinople
http://pastebin.com/gAC5YNgp
Battle of Manzikert
http://pastebin.com/9n4tJeUU
Byzantine Art and Architecture
http://pastebin.com/TwY3hxSF
What's a good starting point to learn about general history of ancient Greece with next to no knowledge about it?
>>320940
pic related
bookzz.org to download some free
Can anyone recommend a few good scholarly, introductory texts to medieval Europe? Preferably with nice, fat bibliographies.
>>318060
Sauce Of that jpg?
>>322127
from a oxford bibliographic article called "greek history: archaic to classical age." Its on my kindle so I can't post it all at one, but if you're interested ill post any of the sections in pic related that pique your interest
>>321942
Check out the following bibliographies
Chivalry
http://pastebin.com/0Z2sRXMs
Charlemagne
http://pastebin.com/4RFAw6NU
The Crusades
http://pastebin.com/EfRXp01Y
Feudalism
http://pastebin.com/QFBFY9dL
Medieval/Renaissance Italy thread
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S6933866#p6936614
exhaustive thread on ancient/late antique/early medieval europe
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S6849002
>>317785
>darwinian selection during the middle ages made western europeans better than everyone else
That sounds like a pretty retarded and dated hypothesis tbqh
>>322206
Dude, fuck yes, thank you.
>>320940
A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Society, Politics, and Culture
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, has anyone else heard of this? it's pretty good.
>>322738
>a social history of Ancient Greece.
pic related
also these:
Lee, John W. I. 2007. A Greek army on the march: Soldiers and survival in Xenophon's Anabasis. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press.
>A social and cultural history of Xenophon's mercenary companions.
Powell, Anton. 2001. Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek social and political history from 478 BC. 2d ed. London and New York: Routledge.
>A highly accessible study that also has detailed footnotes for those who approach the book as scholars.
Fitzhardinge, L. F. 1980. The Spartans. London: Thames and Hudson.
>A cultural and social history of Sparta, with extensive illustrations and a useful time chart.
>>322763
>>322769
lastone
>>322763
>>322769
>>322773
>historical materialism
>>322773
Is there one of these for 20th century Russian history?
>>322841
sort of
Cold War, 1945-1990
http://pastebin.com/nxkmpsMm
Comparative Politics in Eurasia
http://pastebin.com/0n3jCCgM
also you can see some introductory works to soviet military history here:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0052.xml?rskey=ciKXYB&result=6&q=russia#firstMatch
>>322831
i don't comprehend
>>322923
one more
Soviet Union in World War II
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0077.xml?rskey=28vhE8&result=43&q=russia#firstMatch
Just finished Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and I'm currently reading Copleston's History of Philosophy coupled with the one by Anthony Kenny because I'm that much of a entry level pleb
>>322955
Maggee's Story of Philosophy is a good one aswell
Read Euthyphro as well, it's a great start to logical thinking
