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bowser posted:I'm looking for a book on the historical development of anti-communism and the Red Scare. I'm not intimately familiar with the literature but here are a couple suggestions: American Midnight from Adam Hochschild is new and is fun to read because Hochschild is a great writer. The American Liberals and the Russian Revolution by Christopher Lasch is a bit more subversive and a great read, but a bit more of a potted take. This is not directly on the red scare, but I love Christopher Lasch so obviously I think you should read this, if you are gonna read anything. Spider Web The Birth of American Anticommunism by Nick Fischer is a more comprehensive overview but maybe spends a bit too much time on right anticommunism and not enough on liberal anticommunism. Beverley Gage has some stuff that might be up your alley. Andrew Hartman has a book on American marxism that is coming out soonish, so that would also be something to check out. I would also note that there was also a mini red scare in the united states following the Paris Commune, so you might want to start your journey earlier than the ww1 red scare.
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Looking for a book to read as a prelude to Caro's LBJ books, it turns out the most comprehensive-looking JFK biography has no ebook available. Here comes another delivery...
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In college, I read We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free and Founding Faith, which gave context and history to the first amendment (original conditions which led to its development, and major rulings after). Are there a similar history books about the second amendment?
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NuclearEagleFox!!! posted:In college, I read We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free and Founding Faith, which gave context and history to the first amendment (original conditions which led to its development, and major rulings after). Are there a similar history books about the second amendment? You could do worse than reading some of the historian briefs from Heller/McDonald and the primary and secondary sources they cite. (Public copies of a number have been lost to bitrot, unfortunately, so you'd have to use a legal research service to pull them.) https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/08-1521_amicus%20Legal%20Historians.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20100703...LegScholars.pdf One of the better legal history articles (shorter than a book, if that's of interest) on the topic is Carl Bogus's Hidden History of the Second Amendment. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1465114 . If you read it, you'll note that obviously things have changed in the law since it was written 20+ years ago, but you'll also see hints in Bogus's piece about what eventually happened.
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Feb 15, 2023 20:50
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Put in a request for shattered sword this week.
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Feb 16, 2023 20:38
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Kalman posted:You could do worse than reading some of the historian briefs from Heller/McDonald and the primary and secondary sources they cite. (Public copies of a number have been lost to bitrot, unfortunately, so you'd have to use a legal research service to pull them.) Anything less academic?
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a broad history of Mongolia, prior to the appearance of Mr Khan? I'm particularly in anything that delves into the pre-Mongolian Empire social and cultural behaviours - how the people saw the world around them (and their place in it); how they interacted with each other; what they saw as the role of men and women; what did they believe, etc.
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Feb 17, 2023 14:01
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Picked up shattered sword from the library today and good god is it dense.
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It was the first history book written for adults I ever read in my life. For my part I found it incredibly breezy and approachable despite knowing little about the course of the first six months of the Pacific War.
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Lawman 0 posted:Picked up shattered sword from the library today and good god is it dense. It's definitely thick, very good though.
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For my whole life beforehand I had been too intimidated by the adult histories' thickness and afraid that they would be full of arcane economic and political theory concepts to try them. So the book really opened a whole new world for me.
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FPyat posted:It was the first history book written for adults I ever read in my life. For my part I found it incredibly breezy and approachable despite knowing little about the course of the first six months of the Pacific War. Yeah it's well written but there is just alot to absorb on every page.
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My knowledge of the battle previously came from Battlestations: Midway on the Xbox 360, so there were quite a many revelations. I will however say that Roland Emmerich's Midway movie does benefit from having read the book.
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I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and they had two big rear end hardcover books about Waco in the new releases section. Waco by Jeff Guin and Waco Rising by Kevin Cook Are either of those any good?
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Can anyone suggest a good book on the planning of the D-Day landings? Not so much the landings themselves or the Normandy campaign just all the planning and logistics involved?
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Neptune by Craig L. Symonds has decidedly more to say than the books focused on the land warfare.
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Thanks, that looks like exactly what I was hoping for.
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Just got to the part where the Japanese were wargaming midway. One word: lol
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fuf posted:Can anyone suggest a good book on the planning of the D-Day landings? Not so much the landings themselves or the Normandy campaign just all the planning and logistics involved? Speaking of absurd logistical miracles, anyone know of a good book on the logistics of the war in the pacific? I've seen some bits of what the US did to fight a war across a few thousand miles of ocean and it looks nuts (see here for an example), so I'd love to learn more.
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My local library did have a copy of the volume of the official history of the war in the pacific dedicated to logistics. Unfortunately, I think it was the kind of history that goes "we built a base here, and moved some ships about, and so on."
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Lawman 0 posted:Just got to the part where the Japanese were wargaming midway. Is that in Shattered Sword? This page suggests that the only source for the existence of that war game was Fuchida Mitsuo, and I'm pretty sure I've heard Jonathan Parshall say that he thinks Fuchida is generally full of poo poo, so I'd be surprised to see it repeated uncritically...
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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FPyat posted:My local library did have a copy of the volume of the official history of the war in the pacific dedicated to logistics. Unfortunately, I think it was the kind of history that goes "we built a base here, and moved some ships about, and so on." As opposed to the "a person did this, then they did that, and so on" type of history?
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PittTheElder posted:Is that in Shattered Sword? This page suggests that the only source for the existence of that war game was Fuchida Mitsuo, and I'm pretty sure I've heard Jonathan Parshall say that he thinks Fuchida is generally full of poo poo, so I'd be surprised to see it repeated uncritically... They do have an account of it in Shattered Sword, but I don't think they cite Mitsuo at all for their description of how the wargame transpired.
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withak posted:As opposed to the "a person did this, then they did that, and so on" type of history? You have clearly never read any military logistical histories. Those things are extremely focused on when new shipping depots opened and how much tonnage of materiel could be moved through them, and how much that affected the overall tonnage reaching the front, and how much was being held back for the push on this island for a battle that ended up not happening, and so on.
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PittTheElder posted:Is that in Shattered Sword? This page suggests that the only source for the existence of that war game was Fuchida Mitsuo, and I'm pretty sure I've heard Jonathan Parshall say that he thinks Fuchida is generally full of poo poo, so I'd be surprised to see it repeated uncritically... I thought he was drawing on another source since the entire thing of this book is that "oh man guys I got the personal papers of the general staff" and I thought he was getting handed new stuff from his Japanese colleagues.
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Moreau posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for a broad history of Mongolia, prior to the appearance of Mr Khan? I only read the sections on ancient history so I'm not sure how far it directly covers the groups that would become the Mongols, but The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia is about the broad region's pre-Mongol Empire history. It's archaeology heavy but that's going to be inevitable for anything pre-Genghis. Conversely if ancient stuff is actually your jam, I'd heartily recommend Ancient China and its Enemies, which goes pretty comprehensively over the formation of a lot of the steppe/sinic cultural divides that would go on to define most of the histories of the two regions for most of their history. Worth noting there's also a 2-part Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire out this July that I imagine will be a lot closer to what you're looking for (it'll doubtless have a bunch on pre-Genghisid stuff); their recent volumes make a conscious effort to pay attention to social/gender histories even where evidence is thin in a way they did not back in the 1990s. Koramei fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Feb 22, 2023 |
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withak posted:As opposed to the "a person did this, then they did that, and so on" type of history? As opposed to explaining on a higher level of abstraction things like management techniques, technologies, planning methods.
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Finally reached the part of Peter the Great where he sets off on his grand embassy. 900 page books really are something - making you read a whole novel's worth and only scratch the surface.
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FPyat posted:Finally reached the part of Peter the Great where he sets off on his grand embassy. 900 page books really are something - making you read a whole novel's worth and only scratch the surface. Honestly I don't really know about that other than he like stole the Dutch ship designs.
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Turns out the Dutch were very eager to share everything they knew about shipbuilding, in order to improve trade relations with Russia. Edit: But Dutch design by intuition was of limited use to teaching Russian shipwrights, so he turned to England instead. FPyat fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Mar 1, 2023 |
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Massie spends 250 pages building up a picture of a friendly, curious young man, then boom, he hits you with the purpose built facility with fourteen torture chambers for mutineers.
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Well he was still a Russian autocrat
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I've read Imagined Communities (Benedict Anderson) and The Discovery of France (Graham Robb), both were very interesting despite the difference in style. Would love any recommendations of readable histories of nations coming into being as nations.
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distortion park posted:I've read Imagined Communities (Benedict Anderson) and The Discovery of France (Graham Robb), both were very interesting despite the difference in style. Would love any recommendations of readable histories of nations coming into being as nations. I recommend Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 as a classic example of the genre.
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https://twitter.com/ClementsAustinJ/status/1631353029495758848?s=20
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distortion park posted:I've read Imagined Communities (Benedict Anderson) and The Discovery of France (Graham Robb), both were very interesting despite the difference in style. Would love any recommendations of readable histories of nations coming into being as nations. "Peasants into Frenchmen" is a very good book about this topic
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a general survey of Soviet history?
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Minenfeld! posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for a general survey of Soviet history? If you want a thick expensive in-depth textbook, Ronald Grigor Suny's The Soviet Experiment. If you want a short, readable, cheap survey, Sheila Fitzpatrick's The Shortest History of the Soviet Union.
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I'm looking for some books about Tbe Franklin Expedition and stuff about Artic and Anarctic exploration in general
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