Thread 18082191

Ask for recommendations and leave a recommendation.
Start reading, faggots.

Book charts are welcomed. I’m a retard and don’t have any.

/his/ is full of illiterate zoomers, they literally can't read
Anyways, just started this

>>18082197
>Napoleon isn't part of Revolution
Fail

>>18082199
Yeah, but it’s worth a try.
>Antonia Fraser
I’ve got some of her books on my reading list. Pic rel is one. Any thoughts on her work?

>>18082208
Probably too much kino to fit into one volume.

>>18082208
The Durant's were midwits
>dude history of everything lol
Never fails to be an underwhelming joke

>>18082209
Her and Tuchman are better writers than a lot of men, for one thing. Planning on reading that one after I finish with Oliver

>>18082240
>The Durant's were midwits
I just posted them to post something. I’ve never read them though. Why do you think they’re midwits? I don’t know anything about them except that some people don’t like them.

>>18082197
Aren't these outdated and more casual for laymen

>>18082874
Probably. Post better stuff.

>>18082191 (OP)
This site is sleeping on this book. It explains the rise of Rome and why its collapse caused the great divergence between europe and the rest of the world

>Bart van Toilet
Lol

>>18082933
Let me guess, the collapse was caused by <insert niche political talking point that by pure coincidence is exactly what the author believes is a serious problem for the modern world here>?

>>18082940
The Frankopan endorsement is a problem.
>>18082933
The reviews I read claimed that Rome was bad and that the West (but somehow not Byzantium or the Semitic-Egyptian east) was better off without it. Not primarily about the rise.
Why should we read this book and not Peter Heather's books (arguing for the postRoman institutions)? or Bryan Ward-Perkins (arguing that the fall of Rome was a postapocalyptic hellhole for the survivors)? or Pirenne (you know Pirenne)?

>>18082975
[samefag] John Hall's review
https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/S0003975620000405

>>18082191 (OP)
Bumping as I like seeing other people's recommendations. have a list!

libgen back...por favor...

>>18083348
anna archive, pleb

>>18083358
No new (decent) uploads desu

>>18083360
?? Who cares? there's books from 5 thousands years ago that you haven't read

>>18083363
I need them all anon

>>18083369
Not a single book posted in the thread so far has been published after 2020

>>18083371
grim

contributing

Azar Gat - War in human civilization
Azar Gat - Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism
Jeffrey Zvengrowski - Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology
Peter Liberman - Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies

Any good Japanese history books in English? I've read a fair bit but always up for more and my moon isn't good enough to read in that language

>>18082191 (OP)
This, also this one is highly recommendable

>>18083371
Here's one published in 2024

>>18083371
>after 2020
Because academia is dead and only puts out mainstream, pop-history-tier slop or really fucking niche works
Picrelated, 2019 and a great read but miles above the intellectual capabilities of this shithole

>>18082191 (OP)
Brotherhood of Kings. It's about Near Eastern Diplomacy from the Old Babylonian period to the Bronze Age collapse.
>>18082975
>Not primarily about the rise.
nta but I've read it. About 120 pages are about the Rise of Rome, and another 150 on why other empires failed to be like Rome. About half the book is about why Rome was unique.

>>18082191 (OP)
What's some good stuff on China

>>18083371
And that’s a good thing. Here’s one of the best biographies ever on Elizabeth I.

>>18084456
Yes i agree. You can read a book every day for the rest of your life and probably never get through every book published in the 1790s alone.

Bump

>>18083865
>or really fucking niche works
You will read about the economics of rice agriculture in the Po Valley in the 19th century and you will like it, chud

>>18082240
>Durant's were midwits
They said the same about Gibbon and were wrong

>>18085846
>simps for the cathars and presents them as dindu angels
>abruptly stops after the siege of montsegur even though the inquisition continued into the 1320s to root out the cathars
>makes the mistake of assuming the current castle built centuries later is the medieval version
Why are you posting this dogshit

>>18085888
>>simps for the cathars and presents them as dindu angels
It’s been a while since I read it, but I don’t think that’s a fair characterization.
As for the other things, okay, thanks for letting me know. I read it without any foreknowledge.
But also, why don’t you post something or a recommendation, you fucking nigger.

>>18085958
>It’s been a while since I read it, but I don’t think that’s a fair characterization.
It is because the cathars weren't pure angels against the evil catholic church. Some of the most well known cathars we know about were cunts. One was the village priest whose brother was the village headman and both abused their power slept with other men's wives, disappeared people, and expelled them from the village. The other was a Cathar perfect who abandoned his lover after she got pregnant and tried to pass off the kid as his friend's kid by making the friend marry the woman. We know so much about them because the inquisition kept good records. They werent any different than the papal legates they were fighting. The book ignores this.

>But also, why don’t you post something or a recommendation, you fucking nigger
Ive grown tired of people posting poorly written slop

Thought this book was pretty decent. Thought the last two chapters about Bingham and Savoy were kinda drags and wasn't what I was reading the book for. Not a super academic work of course, but it was my first book on the subject and I think it works great for that.

Someone give me German books about German history written by GERMANS AND NOT A BRIT
Anyways I recently bought this

>>18082191 (OP)
looking for something similar to this.

>>18086226
she's pretty cute too

Does anyone have any recs for books on the British Empire I'm looking for accounts from a soldier or officers perspective as their served in the various campaigns and conflicts.

Birley's the Restless Emperor is a great look at a great man, Hadrian. It's presented in the style that allows even those not so knowledgeable about the Roman empire to follow along and doesn't shy away from him being a colossal homo. He may or may not have sodomised men he owed money to for hunting dogs.

Wouldn't mind something on Ungern Von Sternberg, the Estonian madman turned Mongolian messiah and buddhist wargod.

>>18085975
>Ive grown tired of people posting poorly written slop
I appreciate anyone pointing if a book is bad or not. But post a better recommendation on top of it. I’m sick of people crying and not posting any books that are good.

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