Thread 17753342

Post your books that you've read and a brief summary of it.

Microhistory of Morelos in the Mexican Revolution.

Easy read of World War 1. If you don't know much about WWI, this is an easy read.

Detailed book on US history from the end of the War of 1812 to the end of the US-Mexican War

Very dense, but very detailed book about how the wars of German Unification happened.

Basically one explanation of why the parties in the US flipped.

Prohibition book. Main point is that the enlargement of US law enforcement can be traced to here.

Book about why the Saudis are fucking nutters

Old history book on the Vikings. It's funny when you read the word Mohammedan.

Book trying to show that Booker T Washington wasn't cooning for the white man

Why conflict will always happen between great powers

As the title says, book about Europe from WWI to after the founding of NATO

Talks about the different hegemonic times since colonial times. Says China is next hegemon

Decent book about the emperors of WWI

Great book on 30 Years War

Most comprehensive book on the outbreak of ww1.

Book about the most evil dictator's regime in history

>>17753516
>t. four eyes

Early years of the Golden Horde

Argument basically saying why the Napoleonic Wars were the first total war.

Title says it all

Basic explanation of economics. Gets a little frustrating at times.

I enjoyed this one. Comfy and fair read about the settling of Massachusetts and King Philip’s War.

>>17753450
Mearshimer is a great writer.

About American foreign policy from the Spanish-American War to the War on Terror

Famous book on objectivity in history. If you've been in grad school you've read this.

Good book on Timur the Lame

Pretty famous book. MLK called it the Bible of the Civil Rights Movement

Why unionism died in America

Great book on the Sengoku era

How slavery was a big part of Americans moving to Mexican Texas

Best book on the Reformation I've read

How the railroads shaped America

How America got over the Civil War

Whole history of Prussia

History of the first progressive movement

>>17753896
Forgot summary. Basically why some people were more supportive of the government during the Cristero rebellion in Mexico and why others joined the Cristeros.

>>17753557
Looks interesting. Here’s a book on the Napoleonic Wars I quite enjoyed. It flufds Russia quite a bit because the author’s ancestor was an aristocrat in the Tsar’s service, but it goes into good detail about the economy, logistics, strategy, and tactics of the from one perspective.

Basically the argument that the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal India shouldn't be called Islamic India, but more Persian India

The Persian and Greek wars as told by Spider-Man

How the Populist Movement worked in Texas

Afonso de Alburquerque was a fucking lion

Detailed history of the Armenian genocide and material/political events surrounding it.

Very detailed book on The Peloponnesian War. You can actually see the author lecture at Yale on youtube.

History of the papacy

What North America was like before whitey showed up

>>17753532
>shows hands with calluses
>shows sexy farmer tan
>passes vision test
Thank you for the visit comrade commissar. Long live the Party!

How Chicago came to be the second city of the US

One of the many biographies of Napoleon

Pretty good book on how diseases shaped conflicts between colonial powers

About the border patrol and some of the fucked up things they did.

Currently reading this. Pretty comfy, despite some long tangents on the leisure events and gossip. Metternich was a pathetic simp btw.

Best books on the Mexican Revolution

Bio of Mao

Basically how colonial empires progressed medical knowledge

>>17753516
On this:

"Brother number one" and "year zero" are also fantastic. Highly recommend. Will be starting "the tragedy of Cambodian history" at some point this year. Currently going through a book on tibetan history.

Interesting book about the Jacobite Rising of 1745 from the incomplete perspective of the government forces.

Story about the toxic dump site at Love Canal

Lincoln's relationship with his generals

Good bio on Lenin. Made me think that Marxism became a religion.

Best presidential bio I've read. Longest too.

Showcases how the Indian Wars happened

Spanish conquest of Incas

Good book on the kingdoms of pre-colonial Africa

Book about the history of the English language

Book about the Congo Free State. There was a documentary on Youtube based on this book

German colonization of German West Africa

>>17762734
Southwest, not West. Specifically, Namibia, not Togo or Cameroon.

Book about the military history of Germany, from just before the Thirty Years War to the present

Story of the rise and fall of slavery in the Trans-Atlantic world

>>17754886
The biggest problem I have with this book is that it seems to downplay the atrocities committed by Muslims in the conquest of India, when that same benefit of the doubt or contextualization would never be given to say colonialism, or what white people did in America.

Does /his/ do charts like /lit/?

Would love to find a Chinese history /lit/ chart.

>>17764405
https://imgur.com/a/his-reading-lists-7YLKv

Haven't gone through the whole thing, but a lot of charts here.

>>17760929
BASED
Caro needs to get the fifth one finished already

>>17764470
He's going to die like George R. R. Martin before he finishes.

>>17764483
So be it, but he better have at least written enough that his publisher can get something of a last volume out. Besides, everything from Johnson announcing he wouldn't run to Humphrey losing because he flopped around like a fish out of water could be a volume in and of itself, so there's no way he's going to be able to get the same level of detail for the entirety of the administration years

>>17764493
Not unless he does another Master of the Senate level book.

>>17764457
Thanks, found some.

Book about the American Indian Movement

Good book on the history of India

Book about the pogroms that happened in Eastern Europe during the Reds vs Whites war.

>>17765885
>In the the Pogroms of 1918-1921 Midst of and the Onset of the Holocaust Civilized

>>17765889
Yeah, could have done better on the cover design.

What's /his/'s thoughts on this one? If you got a graduate degree in history I know you read it.

>>17766427
I haven’t read it; I’m not a historian by profession or degree. What’s your synopsis?

>>17766633
It kinda makes sense. Basically saying nationalism were basically making communities when historically they weren't there. That a Prussian wouldn't necessarily have much in common with an Austrian.

Basically the story of old-school imperialism US

Story of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

Forgot the book name. Homo sapiens kidnapped other humans species and basically domesticated them.

What's happening now is the natural process of women selecting for de domestication.

>>17753701
There's really no good books that cover the 1970s in America and that's kind of a shame.

>>17753719
His entry in the Oxford History of the US is fucking abysmal and I wish they'd get someone else to do a replacement book for it. The Gilded Age is interesting and it's a stain on an otherwise great series to have a book that bad as part of it.

I have a lot of down time at work so listen to history audiobooks. Grabbed this on a whim despite not knowing much about Canadian history and thought it was surprisingly engaging. It's part dual biography on two of the biggest politicians of their time and the shaping of a sense of Canadian national identity in the post-World Wars. If anyone has any recs for Canadian history that'd be cool. Maybe something covering Pierre Trudeau's time.

Best biography of Hitler I've ever read

This was the first book on philosophy I ever read. It's pretty detailed, but it can make your brain hurt at times.

Great book about the Holy Roman Empire. More concepts than linear, which would be hard to do about a fragmented political entity that last a thousand years.

This famous book

covers 20th century china. doesn't really look at historical events but instead focuses on key figures and their lives

Covers essentially the period of the George H.W. Bush presidency and the 1992 election. Goes a lot into the idea of how the middle class getting fucked over in the Reagan years caused a ton of discontent that was then amplified by the end of the 1990 recession and how those economic (and foreign policy) concerns led to disillusioned people turning to populism and how those were able to be harnessed by rising figures of the era like David Duke, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot. It's essentially about the roots of MAGA and obviously more liberal but I don't think it comes off as being overly preachy and the stories that it covers—like a lot of time spent on the development of policing, police attitudes and the LAPD's history as lead up to the LA Riot, the Weavers and the rise of the militia movement, the Vietnam POW movement and such—is fairly interesting. I'm kind of hoping he does a follow up focused on Clinton's first term. I feel like we're at the point where we should start getting proper histories, examinations and surveys of the 1990s.

Does anyone know of Perelstein's books covering the rise of the conservative movement in the 1960s and '70s are worth reading at all?

>>17753624
This and the volume that preceded it by the same author (Years of Peril and Ambition) got combined into one mega-volume called From Colony to Superpower. Well worth reading.

Biography of Grant. Basically makes Grant into this good guy who was naive, and not as much of a drunk as people think. He blames other people for the corruption in Grant's administration.

Best book on American Revolution I've read

Best book I've read of the Kaiserreich and it talks about the 3rd Reich too. So if you want to know about the 2nd and 3rd Reich, here you go.

Explaining why Germans started to turn to the Nazis.

Oxford history of the US entry for FDR's time in office.

>>17753342 (OP)
A book about the two of the most famous swedish fascists/communists of the 20th century. Very interesting to anyone who like politics or history

>>17753516
He had good ideas about adulterers and city folk and academics but went too far

>>17766427
Finished it last month and I'm not even college educated (not yet that is, I'm 43 its about time). I think its a good book aside from the "noble savagisms" he throws in towards the end (Marxoids can't seem to help themselves can they?) 4/5

>>17753420
>>17753426
>>17753701
Wish listed these

>>17753450
Own this

Decent biography of Frederick the Great. Let me know if you have a better one.

Explaining the theory that the New Deal happened because the US worked with unsavory characters.

One volume biography on FDR

I had to read this with one hand because Barb's writing is just straight historical porn.
True /his/tards will know what I mean

>>17771459
QRD? Considering getting it but I’m curious as to what “a view of the American Revolution” means.

>>17771487
The roles, and history of said roles, that the Dutch, French, etc. played. Forget about the usual characters, you're not getting Howe, Washington, Clinton, etc. in this. You're getting Admiral Rodney's full story, you're getting the British Navy like nowhere else, an incredible painting in words of the Dutch Republic from beginning to end, the Carribean angle of this 'first world war', AND you're getting this all with a birds eye view of the century at large as it pertains to Louis XIV's land grabbing.
If you're a true /his/tard, you'll understand why Napoleon had such a raging hate boner for Britain and simultaneously be kneeling to Lord Chadtham (rest in power, king) after reading this book.

This one was mid. Anybody else got a really good book on what the Enlightenment was?

>>17753420
Good book about the same topic

Good book on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a little pro-Palestinian.

>>17771825
I liked this.

>>17772037
Based
Well worth the page count

>>17772037
I bought this a few weeks ago

>>17769254
This looks interesting

Probably not the best place to ask but what's a good political history of the AIDS epidemic?

>>17769254
>Does anyone know of Perelstein's books covering the rise of the conservative movement in the 1960s and '70s are worth reading at all?
The Goldwater one definitely is. I read Nixonland before that years ago and don't remember it well enough to give an opinion though. There's no lack of depth in his writing, to say the least. Would recommend

>>17768612
I have his book on The Thirty Years War on paperback. Also, has anyone read picrel?

Pretty good book about the Comanche people and their role in Texas history. He doesn't make the Comanche noble savages, and the white people blood thirsty rapists.

>>17753401
>why the parties in the US flipped.
That never happened.

>>17772523
>it didn't happen because... BECAUSE IT JUST DIDN'T OKAY!?!?

>>17772528
This myth was invented in the 1990s and has never survived under the slightest historical scrutiny.

>>17772547
This book with a lot of historical scrutiny will disagree with you

>>17772547
>and has never survived under the slightest historical scrutiny.
An objectively false statement

Oxford history of US from just after the Constitutional Convention to the War of 1812 ending.

History of relations between US and Mexico

History of Islam

>>17772863
The entire Oxford History series is great with the exception of The Republic For Which It Stands. I have no idea how that was vetted and approved.

Why is the thread no longer bumping?

History of how Lee and Davis lost the Civil War

>>17772953
Because nobody but you reads on r/his

>>17773000
Yeah but even after a post it's no longer bumping.

>>17772953
It's an actual good thread and not Abrahamic shit flinging and haplogroup /pol/ sperging thus it's bad.

Have we hit bump limit?

>>17772863
I enjoyed Wood's "Radicalism".

>>17773614
Yeah I don't get it either

>>17773969
>>17773614
The only good thread on this entire board and this bullshit happens.