Recommend me /lit/-approved books on history. Both literature and non-fiction are welcome.
Tragedy and Hope by prof Carroll Quigley
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Mein Kampf
Decline of the West
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Arthur Conan Doyles Boer War and Crime of the Congo also really enjoyable.
Iron Kingdom (Prussia)
And everyone loves Napoleon the Great
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Reasons of State by Carpentier
No idea why but i find south american authoritarian rule fascinating
Everything by Fernand Braudel.
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and for modern scholarship
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Archibald Alison - History Of Europe
August Neander - History Of The Christian Religion And Church
Charles Warren Hollister & Judith M. Bennett - Medieval Europe: A Short History
Colin Wilson - The Occult
Fr. Jose de Acosta - Natural and Moral History of the Indies
Frederick Lewis Allen - Only Yesterday
Jack N. Rakove - Revolutionaries
Jorge Bancroft - History Of The United States Of America
Konrad Heiden - History of National Socialism
Robert Hughes - American Visions
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Dont be an idiot.
If you want to read a really well researched book about the holocaust that actually shits on the narrative read The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans. While he certainly doesnt deny camps and killings, he points out that a HUGE amount of killing of jews was by Balkans, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Lithuanian, and Polish militias guided by individual SS liason officers, and very much relieves the Wermacht of blame. And its you know. A real book.
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Maybe in 1998
Pic related and Fukuyama, Political Power and Political Decay address him and his flaws directly.
Also if you have access to peer reviewed documents, consult the article:
Capitalism Nature Socialism, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2013
F**k Jared Diamond by David Correia
"Jared Diamond is back at it, once again trading in the familiar determinist tropes that earned him a Pulitzer Prize for his 1999 book Guns, Germs and Steel. That dull book was chockfull of the bad and the worse, the random and the racist. At best it is just silly, as when he offers unsupported, and unsupportable, assertions such as his get-off-my-lawn grouse that children today are not as smart as in the recent past and television is to blame. At worst, it develops an argument about human inequality based on a determinist logic that reduces social relations such as poverty, state violence, and persistent social domination, to inexorable outcomes of geography and environment. Arguments such as these have made him a darling of bourgeois intellectuals, who have grown tired of looking meanspirited and self-serving when they make their transparently desperate efforts to displace histories of imperialism back on its victims. They need a pseudointellectual explanation for inequality in order to sustain the bourgeois social order that guarantees their privilege. This they found in Guns, Germs and Steel."
Not to say it isnt enjoyable, but it is out of vogue
May I ask what the best /lit/ approved non-fiction books are on Russian history? Specifically the Russian revolution?
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E.H. Carr.
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>all that assdevastation ad hominem and not a single argument
Why is the Anti-Diamond meme so weak?
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>reduces social relations such as poverty, state violence, and persistent social domination, to inexorable outcomes of geography and environment
your reading comprehension is weak. Diamond ignores institutions and individuals. By his logic, there is no way that Botswana and Costa Rica can POSSIBLY be functional states, and Argentina would be the strongest most economically and politcally vibrant state in the Southern Hemisphere. Not only that but he doesnt take into account "great men" like Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Caesar, who fundamentally changed the societies they burnt down and rebuilt. It wasnt environmental determinism that burnt the silk road in the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Ive seen criticism like "pop history" and "jew" pop up about this work, but in reading peer reviews of this work his scholarship and presentation are praised by ivy typesand it was really fun to read
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kek
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Second Page
>In India, as in China, two civilizations have followed one another. Although we know relatively little about the earlier of the two, the later (as in China) culminated in a Universal Empire ruled by an alien and peripheral people. Indie Civilization, which began about 3500 B.C., was destroyed by Aryan invaders about 1700 B.C Hindu Civilization, which
emerged from Indie Civilization about 1700 B.C., culminated in the Mogul Empire and was destroyed by invaders from Western Civilization in the period 1500-1900
Hmm. Only about a dozen blunders so far, three or four in this paragraph alone.
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I don't know if he said it in Guns, Germs, and Steel, but he claims that agriculture is the worst mistake in human history, which is fucking ridiculous.
The guy is a pseud.
Shirer is not a historian and the book is mostly a journalist's account of WW2 but I still found it an enjoyable entry-level read in to Nazi germany
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Gore Vidal`s "Julian" and "Creation"
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His entire body of work stems from Imperialist ideology.
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Wasnt the moghuls persian muslims who conquered and ruled the hindus?
How was Hindu civilization destroyed by the europeans? Seems to me hindu civilization/culture is still very much alive, only of course heavily influenced by the west and modernized.
It sounds terribly wrong.
Albert Speer's memoir, written during his 20 year sentence at the Spandau prison. Highly recommended.
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Seconding.
Recommending Burr as well.I'm happy that Tubman will take Jackson off the $20, but I'm still hoping to get Hamilton of the $10 -I vote Paine.
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My dad had that for years. It's on my to-read list
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Due to the show Hamilton is untouchable for another 50 years
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all these annotated blbiographries
http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2/1
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>Broadway
So lets just get a cat on there since that play was far more popular.
Tarle-Napoléon (non-fiction)
Graves-I, Claudius (fiction)
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Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization.
Hit me with some ancient history books please
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Herodotus
Thucydides
Xenophon
Polybius
Sallust
Strabo
Livy
Josephus
Plutarch
Suetonius
Appian
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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"no"
Someone rec'd this in another thread. Just started it and am getting a lot out of it.
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So, he's an anarcho-primitivist?
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If you only ever read one history book, read Thucydides.
Cardinal De Retz, La Rochefoucauld have some awesome memoirs, as does Caesar.
Montesquieu for political science synthesized with historical analysis.
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reading 1919 in international relations and i love Carr
