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That looks pretty neat. I've been reading through the book Richard Overy just released on the birth of the RAF for its centenerary. Looks mainly at the politis of creating a national air force. A lot of people seem to have been of the conviction that the country would never need one.
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Is there something akin to Selwyn Raab's Five Families but that covers Yakuza?
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Seconding this audiobook recommendation. Learned a ton. I loved that book - so much insane poo poo went on to make the canal what it was, and the characters are largely absurd.
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May 11, 2018 18:23
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StrixNebulosa posted:Hey, this post sold me on checking out the first volume and drat, this is some fine writing and a lot of information. I've now got a strong image of what France was like to govern and live in in 1328 just from the first chapter, and it's surprisingly easy to read? For once, a history book that is dense and actually interesting instead of being dry. Which series is this?
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May 13, 2018 16:01
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sbaldrick posted:Which series is this? First quote in that thread is this: Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:Has anyone read The Hundred Years War series by Jonathan Sumption? Got a good recommendation on it, looking for any other books around the 1300-1500 european era
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May 13, 2018 16:21
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sbaldrick posted:Which series is this? The Hundred Years War series by Jonathan Sumption, just to confirm what cloudchamber said. Tis good!
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I'm reading Six Days of War and I'm looking for more 1920-80s middle east history. Bio's, single country history's, wars I'll take anything good.
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clean ayers act posted:Just finished Red Famine and while there isn't much more to be said in praise of the book than what's out in the press, I was really blown away by the scope of the Soviet responsibility that Applebaum outlines. There's also some interesting discussion about what constitutes "genocide" and the political implications for modern day Ukraine. I do not trust Anne Applebaum and would take anything she says with a pinch of salt. She's deeply embedded in the military-industrial complex and looks at things from a highly biased perspective. She's similar to Zbigniew Brzezinski in that she's a Polish ex-pat in America who takes her (to some extent justified) fear of Russian expansionism and tries to stir up Russophobia in the United States with it.
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May 14, 2018 03:14
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For some reason I follow her on twitter and she is always posting polish stuff so suddenly this all makes sense now.
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May 14, 2018 05:36
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ExecuDork posted:The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln Paine was pretty good. There's certainly a good long chapter about the Polynesians, and a whole bunch about the Age of Exploration. It covers the whole drat planet from sitting on a log in a river through Panamax. Maybe Food: A Culinary History? I've had my eye on it for a while but haven't actually had a chance to read it yet
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algebra testes posted:For some reason I follow her on twitter and she is always posting polish stuff so suddenly this all makes sense now. She is a Polish citizen and is married to a former Polish Defence Minister/Foreign Minister, so she's pretty heavily invested in Polish politics.
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May 14, 2018 13:40
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Looking for recommendations for books on the Sengoku warring states period in Japan
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May 16, 2018 04:59
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Can anybody suggest a good book (or books) about the English civil war?
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May 19, 2018 13:16
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Bullbar posted:Can anybody suggest a good book (or books) about the English civil war? I haven't read any of these, but I like listening to the Revolutions podcast and it has a bibliography of what he used to prepare for the podcast, so! quote:English
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May 19, 2018 15:40
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Bullbar posted:Can anybody suggest a good book (or books) about the English civil war? Not a big Civil War guy but Trevor Royle's Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms is a good enough narrative account.
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May 19, 2018 20:33
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Anyone have any book recommendations on Belarusian history? Looking for anything from the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to the beginning of the Russian Civil War, though anything up to modern Belarus would be welcome too.
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May 20, 2018 17:43
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I'd suggest anything by Svetlana Alexievich. While her books are Russia based, you can easily see her Belarusian ancestry.
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May 20, 2018 19:35
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Her books can't really be taken as non-fiction either. See: https://newrepublic.com/article/135719/witness-tampering (Not that she isn't worth reading, obviously)
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Bullbar posted:Can anybody suggest a good book (or books) about the English civil war? Braddick, Michael J., God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars Braddick, Michael J. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution (2015) Gentles, Ian, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 (2007) Harris, Tim, Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 (2013) Holmes, Clive, Why was Charles I executed? (2006) Peacey, Jason (ed.), The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I (2001) Woolrych, Austin, Britain in Revolution, 1625-1660 (2002) Worden, Blair, The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 (2009)
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May 21, 2018 05:48
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Looking for recommendations for books on Teddy Roosevelt or MLK Jr. if they have quality audiobooks it would be appreciated.
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May 21, 2018 15:26
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I'm going to be teaching a course that covers Germany from 1919-1963. I'm not at all clued up about anything German post-1945. What are some quick-ish, introductory level things I could read?
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May 21, 2018 18:22
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crazyvanman posted:I'm going to be teaching a course that covers Germany from 1919-1963. I'm not at all clued up about anything German post-1945. What are some quick-ish, introductory level things I could read? You may already have this for the earlier part, but I found Eric Weitz's Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (Princeton, 1997) to be a very useful exploration of the roots of the GDR's particular brand of communism in earlier German history.
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May 21, 2018 18:42
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Looking for recommendations for books on Teddy Roosevelt or MLK Jr. if they have quality audiobooks it would be appreciated. The Edmund Morris Roosevelt trilogy is quite readable and informative. Roosevelt is one of the American presidents who was as interesting before he was president than during or after, so concentrating on his early life is quite rewarding.
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May 21, 2018 19:47
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Looking for recommendations for books on Teddy Roosevelt or MLK Jr. if they have quality audiobooks it would be appreciated. Taylor Branch's three volume biography of King is fantastic (start with Parting the Waters). Looks like there is an audiobook version as well.
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I'm after a book about really early civilisations. I don't have a specific place in the world in mind, just the earlier the better. I know "civilisations" is a vague word, but I guess peoples who had something resembling cities, agriculture etc. An easy to read history of the cities by the Euphrates maybe?
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May 22, 2018 00:46
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I remember quite liking this book about Ancient Egypt: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Ancient-Egypt/dp/0553384902 Could be useful.
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Chas McGill posted:I'm after a book about really early civilisations. I don't have a specific place in the world in mind, just the earlier the better. I know "civilisations" is a vague word, but I guess peoples who had something resembling cities, agriculture etc. An easy to read history of the cities by the Euphrates maybe? Marc Van De Mieroop - A History of the Ancient Near East is good, although perhaps a bit too textbooky?
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Chas McGill posted:I'm after a book about really early civilisations. I don't have a specific place in the world in mind, just the earlier the better. I know "civilisations" is a vague word, but I guess peoples who had something resembling cities, agriculture etc. An easy to read history of the cities by the Euphrates maybe? I haven't actually read it, but I flipped through Eric Cline's 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed once and it looked really interesting, and I hope to return to it someday.
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vyelkin posted:I haven't actually read it, but I flipped through Eric Cline's 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed once and it looked really interesting, and I hope to return to it someday. It's good, I have read it and can recommend.
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CountFosco posted:I remember quite liking this book about Ancient Egypt: I recommend this. It's one of my favorite books.
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I’d recommend https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0300182910/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527003693&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=against+the+grain. It puts ancient civilizations into a context that’s not often apparent from a recitation of their recorded histories - it makes the case that states were often were a detriment to their citizens, to the point where they expended considerable effort simply keeping people in the state.
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vyelkin posted:I haven't actually read it, but I flipped through Eric Cline's 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed once and it looked really interesting, and I hope to return to it someday. Stop reccing books my library doesn't have 
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StrixNebulosa posted:Stop reccing books my library doesn't have Interlibrary loan is your friend.
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Aerdan posted:Interlibrary loan is your friend. https://catalog.ncls.org/client/en_US/nclscat Every single one of these stupid libraries DOESN'T HAVE WHAT I WANT TO READ
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Awesome, thanks for all the recs. I've added them to my to-reads - I think Against the Grain is what interests me most at the moment.
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Prairie Bus posted:I’d recommend https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0300182910/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527003693&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=against+the+grain. It puts ancient civilizations into a context that’s not often apparent from a recitation of their recorded histories - it makes the case that states were often were a detriment to their citizens, to the point where they expended considerable effort simply keeping people in the state. james Scott is really good and this one especially
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jagstag posted:james Scott is really good and this one especially I was pretty surprised by his arguments but they make total sense when you think about it. The early states were brutal as hell and overly self aggrandizing in their histories. That said, it’s hard to imagine a world where history doesn’t have a bias towards them. They’re the closest thing to a record we’ve got.
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Prairie Bus posted:I was pretty surprised by his arguments but they make total sense when you think about it. The early states were brutal as hell and overly self aggrandizing in their histories. That said, it’s hard to imagine a world where history doesn’t have a bias towards them. They’re the closest thing to a record we’ve got. well he is an anarchist and the grand majority of written history is commissioned by states after all. this also doubles as a pretty good introduction to anarchist thought imo as well
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StrixNebulosa posted:https://catalog.ncls.org/client/en_US/nclscat "Inter-library loan" where the librarians will request things from completely different library systems, sometimes even academic / university libraries. I poked around on the site you linked and didn't find anything, possibly because I don't have an account there. Try calling / emailing them and asking about it.
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Chas McGill posted:I'm after a book about really early civilisations. I don't have a specific place in the world in mind, just the earlier the better. I know "civilisations" is a vague word, but I guess peoples who had something resembling cities, agriculture etc. An easy to read history of the cities by the Euphrates maybe? Ancient Iraq, by Georges Roux, maybe?
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