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chernobyl kinsman posted:lost Christianities is great but it's really only concerned with the first few hundred years of christianity at most; you're not going to read much (anything?) about its spread into Europe It deals with up to like 400-800 AD so it gets into schisms between Rome and, say, France, but this quote:i would recommend richard fletcher's the conversion of europe, which is about exactly what it sounds like. runs from some of the earliest missionary activities to conversion of the Lithuanians in the late 14th century Sounds like something I would also be interested in reading, thanks
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Bilirubin posted:It deals with up to like 400-800 AD so it gets into schisms between Rome and, say, France, but this really? man i do not remember that. i'll have to re-read it
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chernobyl kinsman posted:really? man i do not remember that. i'll have to re-read it Well now you have me hauling it off the shelf because its been some years since I last read it. Definitely goes through at least 400 AD though since that is when orthodoxy really firms up and we have our oldest manuscripts. I had misremembered Irenaeus as having lived more recently than he did though.
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My younger brother has been on a bit of a History bent for the last two weeks, and has been asking me for recommendations. Right now he is looking for something "like with Aztecs and poo poo" in his own words. So, can the thread recommend any decent history texts for the layman, especially around the Mexican area? EDIT: Actually, any and all decent layman texts might be good, especially if they have a "hook" like Stephen Clarkes books on British History being fairly funny.
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OscarDiggs posted:My younger brother has been on a bit of a History bent for the last two weeks, and has been asking me for recommendations. Right now he is looking for something "like with Aztecs and poo poo" in his own words. So, can the thread recommend any decent history texts for the layman, especially around the Mexican area? How old is he? I'm kinda drawing a blank between Cartoon History of the Universe at the young end and 1491 at the more adult end.
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OscarDiggs posted:My younger brother has been on a bit of a History bent for the last two weeks, and has been asking me for recommendations. Right now he is looking for something "like with Aztecs and poo poo" in his own words. So, can the thread recommend any decent history texts for the layman, especially around the Mexican area? This has nothing to do with the Aztecs and isn't even the same part of the world, but I really like Douglas Smith's Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy as a layman history book.
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He's just turned 18. ^^Didn't see this as I was posting but that looks like it could be a good fit.
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Maybe this https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Azt...the+aztec+world
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Thanks! This is pretty much exactly what he was after.
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Glad you found a recommendation that fits what you were looking for, but let me add another vote for 1491 as an eye-opening, accessible popular history book for a young person looking to read about cool history poo poo and hopefully spark an interest in further reading.
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Lewd Mangabey posted:Glad you found a recommendation that fits what you were looking for, but let me add another vote for 1491 as an eye-opening, accessible popular history book for a young person looking to read about cool history poo poo and hopefully spark an interest in further reading. Who's the author?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:How old is he? cartoon history of the universe is dope
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StrixNebulosa posted:Who's the author? (and seconding the recommendation, both for 1491 and the Cartoon History books)
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Lewd Mangabey posted:Glad you found a recommendation that fits what you were looking for, but let me add another vote for 1491 as an eye-opening, accessible popular history book for a young person looking to read about cool history poo poo and hopefully spark an interest in further reading. I'm going to add a third recommendation for this one; not only is it an excellent read, it's also an introduction to a part of history in the Americas that just isn't going to get covered in school until you dig in to history classes in college. Probably the only real criticism I have about it is that it was written before the 'land bridge' theory's started to collapse, and it doesn't mention that there was some colonisation of South America from the Pacific as well.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Who's the author? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=1491
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Lewd Mangabey posted:Glad you found a recommendation that fits what you were looking for, but let me add another vote for 1491 as an eye-opening, accessible popular history book for a young person looking to read about cool history poo poo and hopefully spark an interest in further reading. I put this in the Book of the Month poll since it seemed to be a consensus pick (and I liked it when I read it). Go vote for it if you want it to win!
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For young people who want entertaining reading on the Aztecs The True History of the Conquest of New Spain By Bernal Diaz is a great read. Its the first person account of a conquistador so its basically nonstop ultra-violence. Not recommended for the faint of heart, there's a lot of gross out stuff. For example after every battle the Spanish stop to build a fire and render the fat from the flesh of their enemies and then slather the man-fat over their bodies and wounds, as some kind of medicine?
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Squalid posted:For young people who want entertaining reading on the Aztecs The True History of the Conquest of New Spain By Bernal Diaz is a great read. Its the first person account of a conquistador so its basically nonstop ultra-violence. Not recommended for the faint of heart, there's a lot of gross out stuff. For example after every battle the Spanish stop to build a fire and render the fat from the flesh of their enemies and then slather the man-fat over their bodies and wounds, as some kind of medicine? hieronymous make this botm it sounds badass
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chernobyl kinsman posted:hieronymous make this botm it sounds badass
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chernobyl kinsman posted:hieronymous make this botm it sounds badass It is. Then read Broken Spears after to complete the journey.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:hieronymous make this botm it sounds badass Look you already voted for sex bear
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Look you already voted for sex bear yeah i posted this before i saw sex bear. my votes for sex bear now. sorry for the confusion e: vot esex bear
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Any good surveys of Chinese history? I'm interested in titles which cover periods up to and including the Qing dynasty.
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Boatswain posted:Any good surveys of Chinese history? I'm interested in titles which cover periods up to and including the Qing dynasty. My personal favourite is Mountain of Fame, by John E. Wills, Jr. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9858.html
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Boatswain posted:Any good surveys of Chinese history? I'm interested in titles which cover periods up to and including the Qing dynasty. I enjoyed John Keay's China: A History.
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What I liked about Keay's book was that it didn't suffer from time compression the further back in history you went. The book has just as much to say about ancient China as it does the 20th century.
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Minenfeld! posted:What I liked about Keay's book was that it didn't suffer from time compression the further back in history you went. The book has just as much to say about ancient China as it does the 20th century. If anything, Keay compresses time in the other direction a bit, a decision he explicitly justifies: https://books.google.com/books?id=D...ulching&f=false
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What's a good survey on the growth of rail in the US/the transcontinental railroad? Started playing 18xx games and now I'm a little train obsessed.
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I've heard good things about Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White. I just finished his book on the gilded age in general and really enjoyed it.
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Are there any good books about the Seven Years War / Gustav Adolf / Frederick the Great / Wars of Austrian Succession / that sort of era on Audible? I have a gnarly commute and I listen a lot more than I read.
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PatMarshall posted:I've heard good things about Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White. I just finished his book on the gilded age in general and really enjoyed it. Thanks I'll check it out!
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This isn't exactly what you're looking for but a lot of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West has to do with the expansion of railroads tangentially (the short version is that the reason why Chicago became so prosperous is because its location means all the railroads from the Western United States met up there to cross the Mississippi and transfer their goods to eastern railroads or ships on the Great Lakes), and it owns.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower devotes at least a chapter to it. The whole book is great though. A bit late, but thank you for the spectacular recommendation. Great overview of the Dreyfus affair on top of everything else.
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What's a good book on the Haitian Revolution? I just finished Revolutions coverage of it and am looking for something more detailed.
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He's got a bibiliography up on the website showing his sources. You'll find good works there. The classic is The Black Jacobins.
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Where's a good place to start to read up on the Hussites? They came up in a discussion and I realised I knew absolutely nothing about them.
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I picked up Lost Christianities and it's extremely my poo poo, so thanks to those that mentioned it in this thread! I've recently picked up a fascination about the historical development of geographical maps, so if anyone has a "must read" about such things, then feel free to point me in that direction.
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BigglesSWE posted:I picked up Lost Christianities and it's extremely my poo poo, so thanks to those that mentioned it in this thread! This is much more specific than you were probably asking, but Valerie Kivelson's Cartographies of Tsardom is a really incredible (and beautifully-printed) book about maps in early modern Russia.
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