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Dreylad posted:until the Stellaris thread started accusing Wiz of racism over immigration mechanics lol To be pedantic, it was the United States Army Air Service at the time.
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paging joementum
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 09:20 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1440026928329723905 suck it spanish flu wooo
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Weka posted:To be pedantic, it was the United States Army Air Service at the time. sir or madam this is the modern history thread being pedantic is essential. i stand corrected.
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# ? Sep 25, 2021 15:07 |
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and the oil industry has been saving the environment ever since
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# ? Sep 25, 2021 15:14 |
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Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from.
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. I really like The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire by John Newsinger for an overview of British imperialism and resistance to it between 1750 and the modern day
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. Frantz Fanon "The Wretched Of The Earth" and Walter Benjamin's "Arcades"
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. Killing for Coal A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear A Nation Under Our Feet These two I wouldn't say are good, but they're like hit pieces on the long dead for the most petty reasons and are in that way hilarious. American Sphinx is an attack on Jefferson by a guy who studied Adams and is jealous Jefferson gets all the love. The French Renaissance Court (Robert Knecht) is how about the great and amazing and good and cool monarchy Francis I created and how Henry III destroyed it and was gay.
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. killing hope battle cry of freedom before the storm nixonland maybe the invisible bridge, this where perlstein's lib brain really begins to take over albion's seed making of the english working class suburban warriors eric foner's reconstruction the half that has never been told shake hands with the devil wages of destruction i remember liking figes' history of the russian revolution and his crimean war book but there was some scandal involving his academics iirc foote's civil war trilogy stayin' alive us capitalist development since 1776. a political economy of the US by david dowe any of max hastings books. he's a british tory but his history is quite good and you can lol at him grinding his teeth as the communists rack up victory after victory unfortunately the other 2/3 of my books are in storage and my memory of which ones they are is terrible
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Not just whales but all kinds of marine mammals were slaughtered in huge quantities for oil. Svalbard and the arctic coast of Russia used to be teeming with seals and walrus, but to the Norwegians, Russians, Dutch and others those were just walking oil containers. Hunters would come up on a beach armed with lances, they'd start spearing the walrus up close and kill so many next to the shore that their bodies formed a wall to prevent the rest of the herd escaping, then they'd continue slaughtering them for hours, stopping now and then to sharpen their lances or eat. They could kill hundreds at a time. If there were too many bodies for them to take along they'd leave the rest behind to rot.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i remember liking figes' history of the russian revolution and his crimean war book but there was some scandal involving his academics iirc he was writing negative amazon reviews for his competitors' books using his wife's account lol also he's a horrible liberal but that isn't cause for scandal among pop historians
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. war and peace
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"1491" & "1493" by Charles C. Mann. "Mohawk Saint" by Allan Greer "Late Victorian Holocaust" by Mike Davis "The Great Leveler" by Walter Scheidel "American Slavery, American Freedom" by Edmund Morgan
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. Age of Napoleon by Will and Ariel Durant Age of Revolution, Age of Capital, and Age of Empire by Eric Hobsbawm Huey Long by T Harry Williams Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed The Paris Commune of 1871 by Frank Jellinek Seconding Killing Hope, Eric Foner's Reconstruction, and The Half has Never Been Told Che - A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson Command & Control by Eric Schlosser
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Thanks! Its hard finding decent history books to bring into a book store and I can stock lots of these.
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I also like a lot of stuff by C.V. Wedgewood, although more for the fact that I think she's a good writer and can really tell a compelling story, and less for contributions to contemporary historiography as she was writing about 70-80 years ago.
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# ? Sep 26, 2021 01:09 |
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in addition to what's already been posted: The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins Russia in Revolution by S. A. Smith The Baron's Cloak by Willard Sunderland Former People by Douglas Smith The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad (also The Global Cold War, by the same author) Segregation by Carl Nightingale King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
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It’s a popular story, but just a story. quote:You may be interested in this paper by Ugo Bardi. While not strictly speaking history, it is an ecological economics study of the history of the whale industry and the process of substitution. Bardi's conclusion is that the end of the whale industry was largely caused by depletion of the whale population which caused whalers to travel further and longer for less reliable catches and less about the birth of the oil industry. There's a few important take aways. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5lh07z/when_america_was_switching_from_whale_oil/
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Did Lincoln have backers in the oil industry?
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# ? Sep 26, 2021 03:12 |
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oh also shattered sword, a history of the battle of midway and an lesson par excellence in the important of cross-lingual research
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Platystemon posted:It’s a popular story, but just a story. thank you i posted it because of the funny title but i did suspect this might be one of those wet streets cause rain kind of stories and was hoping someone more knowledgable than me could explain why
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# ? Sep 26, 2021 04:15 |
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oh no i was duped
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# ? Sep 26, 2021 04:29 |
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Ok but the poop shortage one better be real. The guano islands being scraped bare.
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Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee.
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Weka posted:Did Lincoln have backers in the oil industry? in 1862, there were big tax increases on just about everything, due to a sudden pressing need to fund a certain very expensive war the North American oil industry barely existed in 1862. the first oil wells on the continent had only been built a couple years prior
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Main Paineframe posted:in 1862, there were big tax increases on just about everything, due to a sudden pressing need to fund a certain very expensive war let's talk about the dupont family, then
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the dupont grounds in delaware was the first time i ever saw broken glass embedded into mortared brick walls, and that was a historic monument lol
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. the long twentieth century by g. arrighi
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Suplex Liberace posted:Hello I have a request I need everyone's favorite/good history books. Topic is not super important I just need the biggest list possible to pull from. liberalism: a counter-history
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MonsieurChoc posted:Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. And also the Earth Shall Weep. The HBO adaption of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is also really good, if Incredible depressing.
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# ? Sep 26, 2021 12:38 |
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i liked "facing east from indian country" but everyone i know who's read it detested the prose
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if you'd rather read about Canadian indigenous genocide, Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk is good
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thinking about it a little more i would also add ramp hollow, hammer and hoe, and montaillou and to depart from the theme a little, why not food: a culinary history and words on fire: the unfinished story of yiddish
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oh another good book i forgot is company aytch: or a sideshow of the bigshow. its the biography of a confederate private who was at more major civil war battles than he wasn't e: also if you watched the civil war you've probably heard half of it already lol Raskolnikov38 has issued a correction as of 20:19 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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yo can i get a fact check on this
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you should NOT belive that
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HootTheOwl posted:Ok but the poop shortage one better be real. That has to be one of the worst jobs on this planet. Read a description of it in 1493 and dear god
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