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I could go on all day about good history books but one that remains evergreen is Mark Blyth's Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. It's all about the history and contemporary politics of fiscal austerity as a concept: where the idea came from, why it became economic orthodoxy, and how it has consistently failed to achieve the goals of the people implementing it wherever and whenever it's been tried in the modern world.
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vyelkin posted:I could go on all day about good history books but one that remains evergreen is Mark Blyth's Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. It's all about the history and contemporary politics of fiscal austerity as a concept: where the idea came from, why it became economic orthodoxy, and how it has consistently failed to achieve the goals of the people implementing it wherever and whenever it's been tried in the modern world. on the topic of austerity i enjoyed The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism a lot, it discusses its genesis as tool of undermining workers' power historically. i enjoyed it a lot.
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Apr 2, 2023 20:11
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they probably don't pass muster for real historians but i really enjoyed reading Germania and Danubia
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Apr 2, 2023 21:56
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Gone Fashing posted:they probably don't pass muster for real historians but i really enjoyed reading Germania and Danubia Same op! Reading lotharingia at the moment. I thought the hopping around between time periods would drive me mad but they just read like an enjoyable jaunt round central europe with interesting stories about random villages and churches
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Apr 2, 2023 22:02
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oh sweet I didn't realize there was another one. just ordered it 
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Apr 2, 2023 22:30
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For the history of the U.S. film industry, I greatly enjoyed Movie-Made America by Robert Sklar. It covers a lot of material for such a compact, single-volume history and I've seen it cited favorably by other authors as well. Donald Richie's A Hundred Years of Japanese Film is an interesting counterpart for the Japanese film industry (I enjoyed learning about the popularity of narrated silent films). Both books have made me much more curious about the early development of silent films.
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Apr 2, 2023 22:38
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anyone have a good book on the 1920s?
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Apr 3, 2023 00:09
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vyelkin posted:I could go on all day about good history books but one that remains evergreen is Mark Blyth's Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. It's all about the history and contemporary politics of fiscal austerity as a concept: where the idea came from, why it became economic orthodoxy, and how it has consistently failed to achieve the goals of the people implementing it wherever and whenever it's been tried in the modern world. This sounds good and I think reading the Klein book probably primed my brain for a deeper more specifically economically focused work. I always want contemporary books to go up to the present moment which I know is impossible, but by bookend I'm always left yearning for the author to continue their analysis into the present day.
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Apr 3, 2023 01:06
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I enjoyed Empire Express by David Haward Bain. It describes the building of the transcontinental railroad and the experiences of the people who built it. Does anyone have a recommendation for a book about the Battle of the Atlantic in WWII? I recently read The Good Shepard and I'd like to learn more about it.
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Apr 3, 2023 02:57
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Dapper_Swindler posted:anyone have a good book on the 1920s? It's not non-fiction as such, but Remarque's sorta-sequel The Road Back is an underappreciated tale of German society following WWI.
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Apr 3, 2023 04:14
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I read shattered sword this year op.
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Lawman 0 posted:I read shattered sword this year op. that ruled so hard. proving out how the airplane elevator significantly contributed to Japanese carriers being outclassed was wild. and the attack of the torpedo bombers was harrowing with how many people just got owned immediately after flying into their airspace.
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Apr 3, 2023 18:55
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My favorite part of Shattered Sword is when they go into the Combined Fleets battle plan for Midway and the Aleutians, and the authors start off by telling you to go pour a tall glass of spirits first so it all makes some kind of sense. Because  at the entire plan.
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Handsome Ralph posted:My favorite part of Shattered Sword is when they go into the Combined Fleets battle plan for Midway and the Aleutians, and the authors start off by telling you to go pour a tall glass of spirits first so it all makes some kind of sense. Because I genuinely didn't realize that the Aleutians was part of the plan and when it dawned on me thar this was all one operation that they had wargamed out and then threw out a losing game as being impossible I put the book down for a bit and walked away.
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One of my favorite history books is My Thoughts Be Bloody by Nora Titone - essentially a long biography of the famous actor Edwin Booth and his jealous failure of a brother John Wilkes Booth. By exploring their lives and their relationship to each other, the book gives us a much bigger picture of the assassination of Lincoln and why it happened. It's just good stuff. I also like E.R. Chamberlain's The Bad Popes, a very chonky look into the lives and popedoms of eight of the worst medieval and Renaissance popes. Looking this up for the thread shows me that Chamberlain's written five more books about Italian history, so I'm gonna get started on those now!
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