Time to try this again. What are some good history books?
>>484269
Blood, Goats, and Children: A History of Modern Pornography.
>>484302
>>484269
Have you actually fucking just sat down and read the making of the english working class?
Recent haul got after lurking /his/ threads.
Susan Wise Baur-History of Renassance
Dan Jones- The Plantagenets
Dan Jones- The War Of Roses
C.V. Wedgewood- The 30 Years War
David McCullough- 1776
Andrew Roberts- Napoleon A Life
Robert Massie- Catherine the Great
Eric Larson- Devil in the White City
Sarah Vowell- Unfamiliar Fishes
Eugene Rogan- Fall of the Ottomans
Mark Kurlansky- Salt
Plus Guns Germs and Steel and Howard Zimms History of the American People to see why /his/ rages so much about them.
His Basque book is worthwhile as well. He discusses a lot of the myth surrounding them without dismissing the ideas completely, but I mean it's not hard to do that as an individual. It gets a bit dry if you're not interested in cultural history but I thoroughly enjoyed it
>>484269
David Graeber - Debt
The history of debt from around 5,000 BC until the modern day, pretty unique for what it is.
Czeslaw Milosz - The Captive Mind
Czech intellectual discussing why he and other eastern euro intellectuals were attracted to the soviet regime.
Should I try posting this on /lit/ instead?
>>484380
>Czeslaw Milosz
>Czech
m8..
>>485835
how about you state your interests first. otherwise, people will post the same books they always post, for which there is a thread already
For more pop history stuff I really like Roger Crowley's books. Haven't read 1453 yet but Empires of the Sea and City of Fortune are both excellent (Empires' account on the Great Siege of Malta is cinematic as fuck). Just picked up Conquerors which is about the establishment and early dominance of the Portuguese Empire but I've got some other books I want to read through first.
