Why was the last recommendation for good history books deleted, you know instead of archived?
Let us make this the new recommendation thread for history books.
Anybody have anything on Islamic Spain and the Reconquista.
Bumping for a book on pre- and post-Roman Spain.
>>435222
Why don't you just play Rome: Total War with realism mods?
>>435225
Because I want to read about what actually happened. There's a dearth of information on the subject because every Spanish historian can't resist writing about either the Reconquista, the Golden Age or the Civil War.
Besides, I already do that.
>>435379
If you know any good books on those subjects, please share.
>>436057
I haven't read any yet (currently working through the Greco-Roman history train), but David Howarth's The Armada is the best book about the 1588 Anglo-Spanish event I can think of.
I need a US history book pls ..
>>436186
1776 is fanfuckingtastic.
Interested in the American-Philippines War and similar. Looking for books turned up this. Any good?
>>435379
Europa Barbarorum has a wealth of information.
It's a very immersive and educative game, it really feels like you're in 270 BC. I personally learned alot of antiquity from it.
>>435222
>>435379
these books deal with the romanization of spain, and so will probably talk about how pre-roman populations changed their customs
Kulikowski, Michael. 2004. Late Roman Spain and its cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
>A reassessment of the transformations of cities in Spain in Late Antiquity.
http://bookzz.org/book/1206470/5846d8
Revell, Louise. 2009. Roman imperialism and local identities. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
>Examines Roman identity through urban public architecture in Spain and Britain in the first half of the 2nd century CE. Includes a clear explanation of structuration theory and its application by archaeologists.
http://bookzz.org/book/1071818/4ef409
Fear, Andrew T. 1996. Rome and Baetica: Urbanization in southern Spain c. 50 BC–AD 150. Oxford: Clarendon.
>Challenges the usual position that Baetica was heavily Romanized by the mid-1st century CE. Points to a mosaic of cultures in Roman Baetica.
Keay, Simon J., ed. 1998. The archaeology of early Roman Baetica. Papers presented at a session titled “Roman Baetica: A Reappraisal,” held at the Roman Archaeological Conference, University of Reading, Spring 1995. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 29. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
>Chapters on the pre-Roman background, monumentalization, epigraphy, archaeological projects, and the economy, examining the growing debates over identity and the interaction between history and archaeology.
Curchin, Leonard A. 2004. The Romanization of central Spain: Complexity, diversity and change in a provincial hinterland. London: Routledge.
>Problematizes the debates over “Romanization,” using the term as denoting a process of cultural exchange. Real cities appear from the early empire, although many pre-Roman settlements demonstrate continued occupation. Municipalization started with Augustus.
http://bookzz.org/book/699045/5b96ff
>>436836
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.
http://bookzz.org/book/824622/1e14fa
Abad Casal, Lorenzo, Simon J. Keay, and Sebastián F. Ramallo Asensio, eds. 2006. Early Roman towns in Hispania Tarraconensis. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 62. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology.
>Papers demonstrate both continuity and development in local cultures from the 1st century BCE into the 1st century CE. Urban environments show a mix of broad similarities alongside variation in the adoption of “Roman” ideas.
Hoyos, Dexter. Hannibal’s Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Western Mediterranean: 247–183 BC. London: Routledge, 2003.
>Hoyos strives to understand the Carthaginian perspective, concentrating on Hannibal, eminent members of his family (the Barcids), and Carthage’s investments in Spain. Lack of maps is very regrettable. Hoyos is a major authority on the Punic Wars whose works include Unplanned Wars (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1998), on the causes of the first two wars.
Lancel, Serge. Carthage: A History. Translated by Antonia Nevill. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
>A well-illustrated history of Carthage from its foundation to its destruction in the Third Punic War. Originally published in French in 1992 (Paris: Fayard), Lancel’s work is informed by the author’s extensive archaeological knowledge.
>>436855
Hannibal's Dynasty-
http://bookzz.org/book/1316606/c6bef7
Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000. 2d ed. London: Macmillan, 1995.
>Covers the Hispano-Roman period through the 10th century in both Christian and Muslim Spain, but has especially strong coverage for the Visigothic era, with a good discussion of sources. Originally published in 1983, this second edition offers significant new additions and revisions.
Collins, Roger. Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
>The first half of the book tracks the political narrative; the second concentrates on culture and society, with special attention to archaeological data. Much of the book summarizes work published earlier by Collins and other scholars, but usefully collected and summarized.
http://bookzz.org/book/1069963/8d3d14
>>436873
Koch, John T., ed. 2006. Celtic culture: A historical encyclopedia. 5 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
>Short accessible entries and suggested further readings on each of the modern Celtic languages. Entries also on historic languages such as Lepontic, Galatian, and Celtiberian. Introductions to Celtic linguistic concepts and terminology such as “Insular Celtic” and “P-Celtic.”
probably has some entries on celtic spain
http://bookzz.org/book/656700/181088
Cunliffe, Barry W. The Ancient Celts. London: Penguin, 1999.
>The most exhaustive account in a single work of pre-Christian Celtic civilization and settlements throughout Europe from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic fringe. Examining patterns of migration, the work is rich in illustrations of major Celtic settlements and artifacts from across Europe. It identifies important distinctions between tribes considered to be the original Celts and those tribes that were later “Celticized.”
http://bookzz.org/book/639320/7d7e79
>>435185
>Islamic Spain and the Reconquista
article on medieval spain
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0010.xml?rskey=Bgbn6M&result=1&q=reconquista#firstMatch
muslim spain
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0054.xml?rskey=Bgbn6M&result=5&q=reconquista#firstMatch
sephardic jews
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0066.xml?rskey=Bgbn6M&result=3&q=reconquista#firstMatch
an article on the Crusades, the section on "crusades in Spain"
http://pastebin.com/7h8fASgv
>>436438
This military article on "Spain after Reconquista" has several books on the Spanish American War if your interested, mostly written from the Spanish perspective and contextualized within their history
http://pastebin.com/0p8PFt0T
this is the only work I found on the Philippine-American Wars in the article, but maybe there are enjoyable entries to read?
Tucker, Spencer C. The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009.
>Essential reference guide for Spain’s last wars in Asia and the Americas, this encyclopedia continues two main volumes, with an additional volume containing primary sources, maps, and other ancillary materials.
http://bookzz.org/book/824961/a7ff26
Looking for non-meme books on Vlad the Impaler and on non-Templar crusaders. Any ideas?
Will also take books about the Swiss confederation. Not even sure if they exist.
>>436902
OP here.
Thanks for the links.
>>439546
Bibliography on the Crusades- sections on "Northern (Baltic) Crusades" and "Crusading Orders" have books on non-templar crusaders
http://pastebin.com/7h8fASgv
Switzerland
http://pastebin.com/WjiP2qcT
