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SuppressdPuberty93 posted:A Savage War is a military history of the American Civil War and also probably the best management book I have ever read. I have bought this, thank you for the recommendation.
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RadicalTranslation posted:Can you give a run-down on exactly what the hell it is? It's a nightmare to navigate through. I'm assuming it's not a forum right? So, it's divided into networks by topic with different contributors and such. Each network has its own review section and discussions. It is something of a nightmare to navigate at first glance.
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 01:05 |
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Cannot find an ebook edition of The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome by Gruen so I trundle to alibris and pick up a used copy, making sure to get the isbn number right for the one volume edition Gets the mail some weeks later It's volume 2 of the two book set. I swear I don't have this problem when I buy fiction, only nonfiction! And it seems that more nonfiction books don't have ebooks available - I'm going to have to pick up the Mystery of King Arthur by Elizabeth Jenkins as a physical book as well.
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 20:19 |
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SubG posted:In 1997 Foote said that if the Civil War was fought today he'd fight for the Confederacy: my hot take is that all scholarship done before 1980 is bad e: whoops I thought this was the Military History thread but the point stands
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 22:07 |
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Koramei posted:my hot take is that all scholarship done before 1980 is bad What precisely changed in 1980? Why that date?
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 22:11 |
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You're assuming a more thorough justification than the "wow people were still saying this in the 1970s?" reaction I get from time to time, but if I have to justify my needlessly sweeping statement, I'm gonna ascribe it to postmodernism having taken hold of the mainstream by around that point. Also purely coincidentally it's the time that my interest, Korean studies, became an actual thing.
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Koramei posted:my hot take is that all scholarship done before 1980 is bad The rule of thumb I got taught in university is that anything older than 20 years is to be read with caution. It’s not that older books are necessarily wrong or bad, they’re just outdated more often than not (depending on the field). For example, I wouldn’t read a book about the Etruscans that was written in the 1980s because they had absolutely no clue besides “they were really mysterious and obsessed with the dead”, but in Roman history there are plenty of good books written in that same decade.
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 22:22 |
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I still read the hell out of the Durants because I haven't found any contemporary historians that have their flourish
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# ? Feb 2, 2021 22:53 |
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I hate when I get an interest in something and the last comprehensive work in English was in like 1925. I still read it since but it's annoying.
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Koramei posted:You're assuming a more thorough justification than the "wow people were still saying this in the 1970s?" reaction I get from time to time, but if I have to justify my needlessly sweeping statement, I'm gonna ascribe it to postmodernism having taken hold of the mainstream by around that point. I like understanding the reasons behind sweeping statements, so thank you for answering! 9-Volt Assault posted:The rule of thumb I got taught in university is that anything older than 20 years is to be read with caution. Its not that older books are necessarily wrong or bad, theyre just outdated more often than not (depending on the field). I've been listening to Tides of History (podcast) and it's been mentioning some new science changing how we should view some of the ancient world as we can check DNA and genetics of communities and I bet that's going to shift some history books even more in the future, assuming the science holds up.
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# ? Feb 3, 2021 01:46 |
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Good books on the history of antisemitism in the Russian Empire? Works that delve into the revolutionary/civil war period are fine, too, though not top priority.
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Karenina posted:Good books on the history of antisemitism in the Russian Empire? Works that delve into the revolutionary/civil war period are fine, too, though not top priority. Its hardly a full scope thing, but "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" by Steven Zipperstein focuses on the Kishnev pogrom, the events leading up to it and the reactions to it.
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Karenina posted:Good books on the history of antisemitism in the Russian Empire? Works that delve into the revolutionary/civil war period are fine, too, though not top priority. I haven't read it, but there's a very recent book by one of the top scholars in the field: Laura Engelstein, The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism: Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. There are two good books on two famous cases of blood libel, one from the early 19th and one from the early 20th centuries: Eugene Avrutin, The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town and Robert Weinberg, Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis. If you decide you do want to go into the revolutionary/civil war period, the most recent work I know on the subject is Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution which looks at how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism and pogroms during the civil war.
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# ? Feb 3, 2021 02:45 |
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Man I wasn’t aware of those comments by Foote in the 90s. Yikes.
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# ? Feb 3, 2021 03:26 |
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Is there a good book on Economic and Finance History (as opposed to history of economics as a discipline). Stuff that looks into unemployment, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, and the policies and treaties that led to them? Maybe even regulatory history? It doesn't have to be global - a book on, say, 'Latin American debt crises in the 80s' or 'Kissinger and Saudi Treasury Bond purchases' would be just as interesting. I've read a lot of memoirs and commentaries on the GFC so I'm interested in history pre-GFC. There's lots of books that go into detail about that crisis and its aftermath, but there's not really the same body of work for pre-2000 events (except When Genius Failed). I have a History of the Federal Reserve (from 1913 to 1987), which is enormous and excellent. I don't mind dry academic works.
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# ? Feb 3, 2021 05:18 |
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I read "The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany" by Jonathan Zatlin in grad school and found it to be really interesting.
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# ? Feb 3, 2021 05:22 |
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give me a book about the French Revolution that isn’t written by Whigs or Conservatives. like something that is pro-revolution, or at the very least less biased
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PawParole posted:give me a book about the French Revolution that isn’t written by Whigs or Conservatives. I assume you don't want Schama's Citizens. How about The Oxford History of the French Revolution?
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PawParole posted:give me a book about the French Revolution that isn’t written by Whigs or Conservatives. Just a few days ago there was a new (though abriged) English translation of Jean Jaurès' A Socialist History of the French Revolution. The original work is from the first few years of the 1900s and was one of (maybe the?) first Marxist historical works on the Revolution as a whole. I'm sure it's dated now but it's an important work on its own.
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# ? Feb 4, 2021 22:53 |
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A New World Begins is the new definitive account. But if for whatever reason you want a solely Marxist interpretation of the Revolution I would hope it’s just for historiography reasons because scholarship has moved beyond that.
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# ? Feb 5, 2021 18:14 |
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i am reading history books again. Working on "Empire of the Summer Moon" because it was recommended to me a lot and because i don't actually know a ton about Comanche history aside from stereotypes in old westerns and whatever Cormac McCarthy mightve written.
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 03:16 |
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Epicurius posted:Its hardly a full scope thing, but "Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History" by Steven Zipperstein focuses on the Kishnev pogrom, the events leading up to it and the reactions to it. vyelkin posted:I haven't read it, but there's a very recent book by one of the top scholars in the field: Laura Engelstein, The Resistible Rise of Antisemitism: Exemplary Cases from Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Thanks!
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# ? Feb 8, 2021 04:51 |
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Anyone know a good biography of Diderot?
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# ? Feb 9, 2021 02:07 |
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Just finished Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs tonight and it was pretty drat great.
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# ? Feb 19, 2021 05:27 |
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Is there a consensus best single volume on the War of the Spanish Succession?
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# ? Mar 1, 2021 05:45 |
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Anyone know of/can recommend any cultural history books focusing on east/southeast Asia? Ideally I'd like to see something which picks up a modern cultural trend and traces the history of how we got to where we are but honestly just anything going deep into something that isn't the high level political or military history of the region would be great.
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# ? Mar 8, 2021 02:51 |
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I've never actually read it, but in terms of a general survey East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History has been on my radar for a while. It's an undergrad textbook but for such a broad topic I'm not sure that's a bad thing, and while I don't know the other authors, James Palais was basically the preeminent western language historian of Korean history before his passing. You might also look at Charles Holcombe's A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the 21st Century; I haven't read this, but I've read his The Genesis of East Asia (covering up to the end of the first millennium) which was fine and he's a generally well regarded historian, so I imagine this will be too. More narrowly focused on the philosophical bend to your question, Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History is basically about that transition from the perspective of the Confucian bureaucracies, which might be of interest. Tracing cultural trends back to premodern East Asia is gonna be kind of haphazard though; the sad reality is that they were pretty heavily broken by colonialism/modernization, or distorted in other ways in e.g. Japan.
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# ? Mar 8, 2021 03:47 |
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I've been notified I have four audible credits gathering dust so hit me with your favorite recent history books. Good pop history, academic is awful to listen to. I'm interested in most things but would prioritize ancient Mediterranean, pre-colonial Africa, pre-Columbian Americas, and East Asia at the moment.
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Grand Fromage posted:I've been notified I have four audible credits gathering dust so hit me with your favorite recent history books. Good pop history, academic is awful to listen to. I'm interested in most things but would prioritize ancient Mediterranean, pre-colonial Africa, pre-Columbian Americas, and East Asia at the moment. I'm most of the way through Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method which is depressing but good pop history about Indonesia and the Cold War.
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Let me clarify that recent history books means recent publish, not modern. Though Cold War is the one modern I'm into so I'll look that one up.
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Grand Fromage posted:I've been notified I have four audible credits gathering dust so hit me with your favorite recent history books. Good pop history, academic is awful to listen to. I'm interested in most things but would prioritize ancient Mediterranean, pre-colonial Africa, pre-Columbian Americas, and East Asia at the moment. I've recommended it before, but I'll recommend it again (and sorry if it's too old for you), 2015's "Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity", by James O'Donnell, which is a look at paganism in the Roman Empire and the conversion to Christianity.
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Grand Fromage posted:I've been notified I have four audible credits gathering dust so hit me with your favorite recent history books. Good pop history, academic is awful to listen to. I'm interested in most things but would prioritize ancient Mediterranean, pre-colonial Africa, pre-Columbian Americas, and East Asia at the moment.
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I return in search of East Germany. I've read Stasiland and have The People's State by Mary Fulbrook. Most of the stuff I find seems to be Berlin focused and I'm really looking for more about life in the DDR than Cold War politicking.
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Grand Fromage posted:I return in search of East Germany. I've read Stasiland and have The People's State by Mary Fulbrook. Most of the stuff I find seems to be Berlin focused and I'm really looking for more about life in the DDR than Cold War politicking. Hester Vaizey's Born in the GDR is a series of profiles and interviews of former East Germans about their lives. You might want to check that out.
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vyelkin posted:Yeah, I have The End of Tsarist Russia sitting on my bookshelf but I haven't actually read it myself, so I can't speak to that argument. I've enjoyed Lieven's other books in the past which is why I recommended it. I've read both Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod and Angel of Vengeance since your suggestions and found both to be excellent. Thank you for the suggestions.
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Minenfeld! posted:I've read both Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod and Angel of Vengeance since your suggestions and found both to be excellent. Thank you for the suggestions. Awesome, I'm glad to hear that!
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 20:07 |
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whats a good book on the early church, preferably up to and including Nicia and maybe a little later.
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Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea by Geza Vermes may be what you're looking for.
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The Triumph of Christianity by Bart Ehrman is another good, readable, book on that topic, although its not a comprehensive history. As the title suggests, its focus is on the growth of the Church, but in order to discuss that it has to also touch on most of the other issues in the Early Church.
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What are some good books on the peopling of [various regions of] the world? I realize early Homo sapien migration would fall into pre-history but I'm hoping you folks can help!
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