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The Black Blood of New Spain by Martinez
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You guys have any good suggestions for books about the American frontier?
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# ? Nov 7, 2016 03:16 |
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Empress Brosephine posted:You guys have any good suggestions for books about the American frontier? The Revenant
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# ? Nov 7, 2016 03:19 |
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Isn't that fiction though
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# ? Nov 7, 2016 03:27 |
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Empress Brosephine posted:Isn't that fiction though reads like history,
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# ? Nov 7, 2016 05:07 |
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Empress Brosephine posted:Isn't that fiction though The Revenant's Hugh Glass was a real guy who was really mauled by a bear and left for dead, really! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass And anyone wanting to know about the American frontier should have Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown on their to-read list. Stuff I wrote earlier in the thread: PlushCow posted:You want to read Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, it's essential. PlushCow fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Cool thanks ill check out both, I think I already own both anyways
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# ? Nov 7, 2016 14:13 |
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Hi, any recommendations for books about the US security state since 2001? Like, going over all the various leaks and revelations that we've seen?
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 23:55 |
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There is James Bamfords series on the , which goes from the 1980s onwards. Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow Factory
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# ? Nov 10, 2016 06:21 |
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I'm sorry if this isn't exactly the right thread for this (if there's a better thread to ask this question could someone point me in the right direction?) Does anyone have good book recommendations on books with first hand accounts from the protest movements in the 60's in the U.S.?
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# ? Nov 12, 2016 02:16 |
Any recommendations on the Napoleonic Wars?
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# ? Nov 12, 2016 17:19 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:Any recommendations on the Napoleonic Wars? My standard recommendation is Russia Against Napoleon by Dominic Lieven, which is understandably focused on Russian involvement and the Russian campaign, but you really can't understand the Napoleonic Wars without understanding especially the 1812 campaign that ended Napoleon's empire.
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# ? Nov 12, 2016 18:10 |
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Any suggestions on books about radical Anabaptism? False Prophets and Preachers: Henry Gresbeck’s Account of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster by Christopher S. Mackay seems like an excellent place to start, but I'd love to learn more about what was going on in the Netherlands with people like the Batenburgers and their splinter groups as well.
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# ? Nov 12, 2016 20:31 |
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Anybody have good recommendations for nonfiction on gang activity in the mid-to-late 1800s? For my money, the best film of the 21st century is The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. I know that's based on a book, just curious if there's other stuff in the same vein.
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# ? Nov 13, 2016 02:13 |
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Gangs of New York The book, not the movie. The movie is good too tho. withak fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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withak posted:Gangs of New York Qikipedia posted:The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1933
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# ? Nov 13, 2016 02:59 |
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drat, that was fast. Thanks.
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# ? Nov 13, 2016 03:01 |
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Satan's Circus by Mike Dash is good. New York Tammany Hall and political corruption and cops and gangsters and stuff.
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# ? Nov 13, 2016 09:05 |
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Low Life, the Lures and Snares of Old New York is the single best work in/introduction to the genre. By Luc Sante.
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# ? Nov 13, 2016 20:03 |
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MeatwadIsGod posted:transcripts of recordings from the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Edit: I have asked but no one knew.
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# ? Nov 14, 2016 15:18 |
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EricD posted:Second, Alistair Horne's To Lose A Battle. This is the authoritative book on the Battle of France in 1940. It starts long before 1940, beginning in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles and France victorious over a broken Germany. It traces how the French Army stagnated and declined from the superb weapon of 1918 into the rusty implement of 1940, and traces how the German Army recovered from its collapse in the interwar period and laid the foundations for its future military success. When war finally comes, Horne covers the conflict from the quarrels in high command all the way down to the experiences of private soldiers on a day by day, sometimes hour by hour account of the Fall of France. Horne does not just address the how's but digs into the why's of French failure and German success. Anyone who wishes to understand that Fall, perhaps the most decisive of German victories and crushing of Allied defeats in the Second World War, would do well to read this book. EDIT: I totally forgot about Keegan's Intelligence in War, got it for 5 bucks at Borders (RIP) and couldn't put it down. Boomer The Cannon fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Borders (RIP)
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# ? Nov 15, 2016 04:16 |
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Any good books on art or architecture history. Either a broad one or one focused on a specific movement would do.
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# ? Nov 16, 2016 20:31 |
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Basically all of Will Durant's Story of Civilization stuff covers art and architecture history, along with lots of political and social history.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Basically all of Will Durant's Story of Civilization stuff covers art and architecture history, along with lots of political and social history. Will Durant is good. Semi related: his Story of Philosophy is excellent
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 00:29 |
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Suplex Liberace posted:Any good books on art or architecture history. Either a broad one or one focused on a specific movement would do. Emile Male - The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century Ramage & Ramage - Roman Art Neer - Art & Archaeology of the Greek World H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson - History of Art
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# ? Nov 17, 2016 08:58 |
I'm interested in a good history of the War of the Roses and would appreciate your recommendations.
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# ? Nov 19, 2016 23:52 |
Bilirubin posted:I'm interested in a good history of the War of the Roses and would appreciate your recommendations. Allison Weir and Dan Jones both wrote good popular histories on the subject, each titled The Wars of the Roses. Of the two, I prefer Weir's - she includes a lot of the little anecdotes that make the wars fun to read about - but hers has the odd downside of cutting off before Richard III bites it at Bosworth, whereas Jones' goes all the way to the accession of Henry Tudor. Having a halfway decent background in English history post-Conquest is, imo, pretty vital to understanding what the hell is going on in the Wars of the Roses, so if you don't feel strong in that area I'd recommend Dan Jones' The Plantagenets to start with. e: if you're in the UK, Dan Jones' book has the much more exciting title The Hollow Crown chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 20, 2016 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:Allison Weir and Dan Jones both wrote good popular histories on the subject, each titled The Wars of the Roses. Of the two, I prefer Weir's - she includes a lot of the little anecdotes that make the wars fun to read about - but hers has the odd downside of cutting off before Richard III bites it at Bosworth, whereas Jones' goes all the way to the accession of Henry Tudor. Awesome, thanks for the recommendations. My knowledge of English history is decent until around Stamford Bridge, other than what I recall from exhibits at the Tower of London, so I will start with the Plantagenets as you suggest.
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 01:15 |
it's a fun book. jones is a good writer and a great popular historian; he gives you the fun bits without dumbing down or making you feel like you're being pandered to. and, in between the wars and parliamentary revolts and whatnot, he really drives home what a dysfunctional soap opera the royal family was (is).
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Haven't read War of the Roses, but I've liked other stuff by Weir.
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 02:38 |
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I've been researching the Soviet-Afghan War. I'm sure some of the best stuff is in journal articles and state archives, but for now I'm just looking at English language books on the war. So far I have: - 3 books translated by Lester Grau: The Bear Went Over the Mountain, The Other Side of the Mountain, and The Soviet-Afghan War - Afgantsy by British diplomat Rodric Braithwaite - The Hidden War by Russian journalist Artyom Borovik So these 5 offer a look at the war from the Soviet side and often from the perspective of Soviet grunts fighting heroic, often useless operations against the mujahideen. Is there anything out there that brings in some other perspectives on the war and its effect on Afghanistan?
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 03:53 |
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What's a good book on the air war in world war 1?
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# ? Nov 20, 2016 04:49 |
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Suplex Liberace posted:Any good books on art or architecture history. Either a broad one or one focused on a specific movement would do. This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but Spiro Kostof's The City Assembled is a really cool book on the history of urban architecture--that is, the features of cities rather than of specific buildings, though Kostof was an architectural historian so his book also talks a lot about how specific building features affected urban developments. It's also beautifully printed and illustrated with literally hundreds of visual examples to demonstrate what he's talking about.
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Stairmaster posted:What's a good book on the air war in world war 1? Are you looking for colour or dry facts?
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vyelkin posted:This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but Spiro Kostof's The City Assembled is a really cool book on the history of urban architecture--that is, the features of cities rather than of specific buildings, though Kostof was an architectural historian so his book also talks a lot about how specific building features affected urban developments. It's also beautifully printed and illustrated with literally hundreds of visual examples to demonstrate what he's talking about. Its not what I was asking for but its extremely my poo poo so thank you.
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Trin Tragula posted:Are you looking for colour or dry facts? Leaning towards colour
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 03:33 |
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Peter Hart (the bloke at the Imperial War Museum whose job is to look after the poo poo-tons of oral history they get given) has written four books about British fliers; his stuff all tells a general high-level narrative, and then keeps dropping down to the memories of people who were on the ground (or in the air, hahaha) participating in it, so you've got context and can see what they were trying to achieve even if the blokes themselves don't have much of an idea. Tumult in the Clouds (general 1914-1918, no ebook, with Nigel Steel) Somme Success (the air effort over the Somme as they applied lessons learned and developed tactics invented in 1915) Bloody April (the kicking the RFC took at the Battle of Arras in 1917 after German innovation lapped them) Aces Falling (how air warfare came of age in 1918 with the development of All Arms Battle, and ended the days when fighter aces would string together 50 kills or more and fly until they died or were shot down). Pick any one of those and you'll have a good time.
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# ? Nov 22, 2016 14:29 |
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Is there a good, single-volume history of The Netherlands?
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Eddy Rickenbacker's autobiography is also really readable if you're looking for color. All the standard caveats about autobios written in the 20s apply but it holds up pretty well.
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