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Post and discussion about any type of history book.

>Mark Twain by Ron Chernow

>Before he was Mark Twain, he was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But when the Civil War interrupted his career on the river, the young Twain went west to the Nevada Territory and accepted a job at a local newspaper, writing dispatches that attracted attention for their brashness and humor. It wasn’t long before the former steamboat pilot from Missouri was recognized across the country for his literary brilliance, writing under a pen name that he would immortalize.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219158332-mark-twain

Previous Thread: >>24534219

In Flanders Fields: Passchendaele 1917 by Leon Wolff

>In this account of the Flanders campaign, Leon Wolff graphically describes the whole terrible from Haig's initial plan; his determination to carry it out despite constant opposition from the Cabinet and the muddle of doubts and disagreement among the military staff; through the early stages of the 'great offensive'; and to the scene of the battle itself - the Flanders fields which will 'forever haunt Western civilization'.

>Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan is a book by Herbert P. Bix covering the reign of Emperor Shōwa of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito_and_the_Making_of_Modern_Japan

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1494804.Hirohito_and_the_Making_of_Modern_Japan

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles

>The devastating struggle to the death between Rome and Carthage was one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World.

>In an epic series of battles, both mighty empires vied for supremacy of the Mediterranean before the Carthaginians finally buckled and their great capital city was razed to the ground, burning for 6 days and nights, its inhabitants slaughtered or enslaved.

>Carthage Must Be Destroyed tells the story of this lost empire - from its origins in Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest sea-power of its age - and brings to life legendary figures such as the military genius Hannibal, who almost toppled Roman power, but would ultimately lead to his people to disaster.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141536270-carthage-must-be-destroyed

looks like you picked a more attentiony op image last time, or something. anyway, i really like this book. i read it years ago and then bought it again from a thrift store cause i'd forgotten i had it. it seemed familiar when i started reading it, but i just assumed i'd read excerpts on wikipedia or something...but then i was like ok i definitely have read this before and then eventually found it on my shelf. it was a hardcover and the 2nd was a paperback copy so that's probably why i didnt recognize it as something i had from the cover.

>>24593197 (OP)
What is the best Abraham Lincoln biography? Hopefully one that isn't overt hagiography.

>>24596549
There Was Light for his character and early life, Team of Rivals for his leadership qualities and a primer on the Civil War

>>24596549

A series not a book but the Concise Lincoln series is several short, topic-centered volumes on specific aspects of Lincoln or issues he dealt with. Its great if you want to know about a particular area of his life.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/80264-concise-lincoln-library

>>24594450
I have this book and its well narrated. It does show the interaction carthage/the phoenicians had with the other peoples of the mediterranean

I can't read shit about the ancient world desu it's just so detached from what life is today. I feel like our age begins with world war 1 and everything before that is impossible to relate to.

>Want a good book about Aztec sacrificial practices
>Get a copy of City of Sacrifice because it's one of the highest recommended books on the subject supposedly
>It's absolute, utter dogshit.
*SIGH* into the trash it goes.

>>24597091
Maybe read Plato? I find that discussions tend to be more engaging for anybody. Though I can’t really help with it otherwise, I hate modern history because of how partisan and frankly boring it is. Exact opposite problem, it’s too close to today to be meaningful history

>>24597091
There are plenty of good books about the ancient world out there. Have you read David Howarth?

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal

>Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” But these perceptions are not quite true, as Tim Jeal shows in this biography. With unprecedented access to previously closed Stanley family archives, Jeal reveals the extent to which Stanley’s public career and intimate life have been misunderstood and undervalued.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1724560.Stanley

https://www.amazon.com/Stanley-Impossible-Africas-Greatest-Explorer-ebook/dp/B00267SW32

Above the Ground: A True Story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland by Dan Lawton

>the true story of the murder of British prison official Albert Miles by Irish Republican Army assassins and the best efforts of former IRA men and the British government to keep hidden the secrets of their dirty war during the Troubles in Northern Ireland

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214982976-above-the-ground

https://www.amazon.com/Above-Ground-Troubles-Northern-Ireland-ebook/dp/B0D7F8PWJX

>>24593705
Anybody got a good book on the history of the monarchy in Japan like pic related, a one volume, or several volumes on the history of the monarchy.

>>24593197 (OP)
Shit I just saw this thread. Anyone read picrel before? I just got a copy.

>>24598819
Can someone recommend this fella something better? I'm interested too

>>24593197 (OP)
Is Picrel a good book on the less covered aspects of the German Government during the third Reich?
Also, do you guys have any reccs for good books about German post war projects in the east, Urban rebuilding of cities, etc?
I'm researching something.

>>24596283
I love this book too

>>24593197 (OP)
Best biography of Paul Revere or a book that details his ride.

anyone familiar with this? worth adding to the books-to-read list?

>>24599940
Shit forgot picrel before going to sleep.

It's time for /history/ to take the anglopill
Peasants vs. capitalistic farmers:
- The peasant "owner" cannot legally sell family land without permission of children
- A peasant must divide land equally between children; there is no real last will and testament
- Peasants marry young, have children young, and use the children for farm work
- Multiple generations live in the same household
- Poor subsistence farmers

Capitalistic farmers:
- A living man has no heirs and can buy and sell land freely
- An Englishman was free to give his children as much or as little as he wanted, meaning they were at risk of being disinherited if they disappointed him, but land must never be divided; it has to go to only one heir
- Englishmen married late and hired labor instead of using their own children for work; this led to a cash economy
- The nuclear family was the norm as far back as records go
- Rich market traders

tl;dr:
> The English have never been peasants as far as records can reliably show, going back as far as ~1250, according to "The Origins of English Individualism"

>>24600958
The accounts of foreign views of Englishmen are great as well
From the account of Emmanual Van Meteren, Antwerp merchant
>"The people are not so laborious and industrious as the Netherlanders or French, as they lead for the most part an indolent life...They keep many lazy servants, and also many wild animals for their pleasure, rather than trouble themselves to cultivate the land...The people are bold, courgaeous, ardent and cruel in war, fiery in attack and having little fear of death; they are not vindictive, but very inconstant, vainglorious, light and deceiving, and very suspicious, especially of foreigners, whom they despise."
From a Venetian Vistor in the 1400s
>Agriculture is not practised in this island beyond what is required for the consumption of the people ; because were they to plough and sow all the land that was capable of cultivation, they might sell a quantity of grain to the surrounding countries. This negligence is, however, atoned for, by an immense profusion of every comestible animal, such as stags, goats, fallow-deer, hares, rabbits, pigs, and an infinity of oxen, which have much larger horns than ours, which proves the mildness of the climate, as horns cannot bear excessive cold ; whence, according to Strabo, in some northern countries, the cattle are without horns. But above all, they have an enormous number of sheep, (6) which yield them quantities of wool of the best quality

>>24600954
Well at least it's going to be good for learning a bit about the historeography of the Nazis.

mark sykes was a dumbass lol

and françois georges-picot was literally the stereotype of the arrogant frenchman

>>24600958
>this led to a cash economy

>>24600958
>The English have never been peasants as far as records can reliably show
how is englishman defined here? norman nobility? anglo saxon? celts?

>>24601057
Are you retarded? Everyone but you knows what an Englishman is.

>>24601046
Quiet raj

>>24600958
Racist book

"Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945" by Richard Overy reinterprets World War II as the culmination of a century of global imperial expansion, where nations like Germany, Japan, and Italy sought to challenge the existing imperial order. Overy argues that the war's origins lie in the "New Order" states' ambitions for territorial control and resources, mirroring the earlier scramble for colonies. The book expands the traditional timeline, beginning with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and emphasizes the global nature of the conflict, including the Asian theater and the war's impact on the imperial system itself.

>Female author writes a history book about ancient civilization
>Chapter about how women were poorly treated in said ancient civilization
This is exactly why I don't read history books if the author is a woman.

>>24601085
why can't you just answer the question though?

>>24601980
I mean, so long as it's accurate and everything else is good, who cares about their inclusions of private indulgences and personal flights of fancies?

>>24601405
I was always interested in military and political culture, thanks

>>24601980
I was reading a history of Quebec and several chapters were devoted to "the role of women" and "the empowerment of women" and it's at that moment how desperate this writer (and perhaps Canadian men in general) was/were for nice guy simp points.

>>24602512
So I guess there's nothing wrong them being a 51st state after all.

>>24597091
Really? Isn’t it fascinating that the ancients were so similar to us? Petty intrigues, trying to figure out the world with early natural philosophy, the seasonal feasting, the battles about meaning and gods (read some early skeptics and it’s like stepping into atheist debates today). Sure, the casual acceptance of slavery or set social classes can feel alien, but it’s not that far removed from us. Indentured servitude was with us through the agricultural revolution. Industrial society created new horrors of exploitation. In that sense you’re right that it looks more familiar past the world wars. Similar politics, values. But the fundamental humanity doesn’t really change. We do ourselves a disservice playing up the differences.
Go read some roman graffiti and tomb dedications to animals and they feel very similar again. Go look at the artifacts from games, dice, dolls. Even the earliest finds from Sumeria have board games. The flood tablets have the same Noah’s ark story predating israelites that most of the world pretends to believe in still.
Much of the alienation comes from the sources being primarily rich fuck concerns. Like if all that was left of today was Elon Musk tweets about brain chips and Zuck talking VR and people thought that’s what everyone was concerned with in our era.

>>24601980
I’ve found one woman who actually makes the woman focus interesting. She was on that experimental archaeology historical show as well. Different books cover different eras and you get a surprising amount of insight into life from how household chores are set up. What changes (like coal in this case) and oven technology do to reorient society. The first sparks of a textile industry changing everything is something you sort of get in regular history, but the changes between woodcutting to coal for heating and cooking, or washing technologies enabling new types of clothes and hygiene standards is pretty interesting.
If you’re not interested in the book check out the show, it covers both the home and daily work life.

>>24596549
Ronald White's A. Lincoln

>>24593197 (OP)
Good books on Ancient American Indian culture?

>>24602798
The Indian Heritage Of America

>>24593197 (OP)
Best modern Roman historian?

>>24602960
Adrian Goldsworthy, Anthony Everitt and Peter Heather.

>>24601057
English society as a whole

Books on modernization, industrialization of states and Stalin's reign?

>>24593197 (OP)
Best History of the Byzantine monarchs?

>>24596283
in the last thread I posted fifteen reccs and took a personal interest in the thread thriving but now I am gripped by malaise and can't summon the wherwithal

History is good thoughever, read history

>>24603709
R.W. Davies ''The Industrialization of the Soviet Union'' is pretty much considered the paramount text in academic circles; it's 7 volumes and it covers a decade (1929 to 1939)

>>24605174
Looks pretty decent, thanks

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT, WHAT'S THE BEST BOOK ABOUT THE MOTHERFUCKING AZTECS!?! ESPECIALLY IN REGARDS TO THEIR FUCKING SACRAFICIAL PRACTICES!? I DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT THE FAGGOT MAYA OR THE FAGGOT INCA!!!!

>>24605438
Here ya go

>>24603791
Norwich.

He is also utterly outdated

>>24606014
Then what's more up to date?

>>24593197 (OP)
Good papal history that goes into the personal ideologies of the separate popes?

>>24606378
This one>>24599487

Sparta's Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC by Paul Rahe

>When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up their navy, focused on the conflict at hand, and refrained from wasting their resources on ulterior objects, they would "win through" – and Thucydides believed him. After Pericles' death, however, to the historian’s dismay, the Athenians pursued risky adventures tangential to their struggle with the Spartans and their allies; and, in Sicily, thanks in large part to domestic strife, they squandered not one, but two great armadas. Then, in the aftermath of that catastrophe, they found themselves bereft of triremes and short of manpower – as a coalition formed against them including their Lacedaemonians rivals, their longtime allies in the Aegean, and the Great King of Achaemenid Persia.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207589187-sparta-s-third-attic-war

>>24602600
>be me
>new private in the US Army
>First Sergeant (E-8) conducts a room inspection with my section chief (E-6)
>1SG sees this book in my room
>demands to know if I'm taking college courses
>no
>1SG says go ask my chief why I'm not enrolled in college
>okay
>chief smokes the dogshit out of me while 1SG laughs
>gotta love the Army

Good book though.

>>24605438
It's fiction but Aztec by Gary Jennings is absolutely brutal and unforgettable. A truly epic novel that will teach you everything about the Aztecs.

>>24607414
Any more good grand strategy/history hybrid books?

>>24602798
Book of the hopi by frank waters, really doesn't get much better

>>24608114
The guy who wrote this teaches at Yale.

i've been looking for some books for a while about napoleon, specifically about his psychology before and after the invasion of russia
it's the strangest thing, the way he behaved before russia is almost like he was a different person when it came to planning and execution of those plans, to the point that he was making amateur mistakes that he literally warned people not to make earlier in his career
what changed in his head? anybody got anything?

>>24608283
I strongly recommend his memoirs from his exile.

>>24607793
I was eyeballing that recently desu

>>24608511
You'll love it.

>>24608202
Thanks

>>24608202
Got any more?

>>24593197 (OP)
>chernow
I remember reading his Washington biography and laughing when he basically wrote “the institution of slavery is a vile, disgusting institution in which Washington unfortunately participated. It was obviously wrong. BUT… Washington was a very *good* slave owner :3”
I’m patriotic, but it’s sometimes silly how much we lionize these people.

>>24608532
Added to which, it's not some sanitized feel-good account, it's the Aztecs in all their brutality and their glory. Parts of this will make you put the book down in awe and disgust.

>>24608552
what do you find wrong with that statement?

>>24608552
>his Washington biography
That book is very much hagiography. Not nearly as good as his books about Hamilton and Grant.

This is the best book I've ever read on the Civil War.

>>24608800
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom is a great appendix to it. Removes around 10% of the main text in favor of photos and captions. Both very well worth reading.

>>24608571
Wrong? Probably nothing. But it was funny.

Enjoyed the dry description of how the world was up to the section where she seethes at Marx's opium of the masses quote. The last part about modernity just reads like yes the European liberal steady state will continue forever.

>>24609583
this is the lady that went on about rural zoroastrians

old grumpy lady named crone hehe

>>24593197 (OP)
Looking for a list of the best historiography

Any books for the history of botany or something similar? Plants biology or ecology? I enjoyed Alexander von Humboldt selected writings from Everyman's library something like that would be nice.

>>24610800
You talking about the science of botany, or environmental history? This is one of the better environmental histories I've read.

>This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for the vector mosquitoes of yellow fever and malaria, and these diseases wrought systematic havoc among armies and would-be settlers. Because yellow fever confers immunity on survivors of the disease, and because malaria confers resistance, these diseases played partisan roles in the struggles for empire and revolution, attacking some populations more severely than others. In particular, yellow fever and malaria attacked newcomers to the region, which helped keep the Spanish Empire Spanish in the face of predatory rivals in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late eighteenth and through the nineteenth century, these diseases helped revolutions to succeed by decimating forces sent out from Europe to prevent them.

>>24611342
More

>>24611344
>In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that emerged is our own.

>For most people Bismarck is the man of "blood and iron"; he coined the phrase himself and he lived up to it. But he was much more; he had an itellectual ascendancy over all the politicians of his day, and his superiority was acknowledged not only by his own people, but by all European statesmen.

The unification of Germany, the defeat of Austria, the fall of the Second Empire, the defeat of France, the alliance of the German Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy, the dismemberment of Denmark―these are his most obvious achievements; no less important was the transformation in the national consciousness of the German people, for which Bismarck was also responsible. Dr. Eyck has analyzed not only the personality but also the accomplishments of a statesman whose influence on Europe in the latter half of the nineteenth century was more far-reaching than that of any other man in his time.

This edition contains minor corrections and a new foreword by the author's son Frank Eyck, also a nineteenth-century historian, evaluating some of the important publications in the field since the book appeared and illuminating his father's attitude to Bismarck.

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky

>Tsar Nicholas II was executed under mysterious circumstances by Russian revolutionaries in 1918. Using diaries, letters, testimonies, and thorough research in the Russian state archives, Radzinsky reconstructs this murder and sketches the life of the last Romanov.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1544176.The_Last_Tsar

Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman

>Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/899609.Iron_Silk

I've read Ancient Iraq from Georges Roux and got Assyria from Eckart Frahm. Any other rec to complete those two?

>>24612527
Honestly that's a pretty good two for an idea of ancient Mesopotamia. Brotherhood of Kings is my personal favourite, it's about letters in the Ancient Near East, turns out ancient kings are also very petty and passive aggressive to each other. Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites is also nice, it's a book with short sections explaining one bit each

>>24612755
Brotherhood of kings could be nice not sure about the other thank you Anon.

The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin by Jonathan Phillips

>In 1187, Saladin marched triumphantly into Jerusalem, ending decades of struggle against the Christians and reclaiming the holy city for Islam. Four years later he fought off the armies of the Third Crusade, which were commanded by Europe’s leading monarchs. A fierce warrior and savvy diplomat, Saladin’s unparalleled courtesy, justice, generosity, and mercy were revered by both his fellow Muslims and his Christian rivals such as Richard the Lionheart.

>Published Yale University Press

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44174507-the-life-and-legend-of-the-sultan-saladin

>Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.
Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography
Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and women
Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial development
Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies

>>24593197 (OP)
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus

>Primarily known as the accuser of Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers was a commanding, complex figure who was center stage during many of the public events of his time, yet remained intensely private. This book covers Chambers' personal life, as well as his emergence as a dominant voice in the postwar ant-Communist movement.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1070642.Whittaker_Chambers

>>24601980
>Blocks your path

>>24613915
The Crusades, 1095-1204 by Jonathan Phillips

>covers the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, along with greater coverage of the Muslim response to the Crusades from the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to Saladin’s leadership of the counter-crusade, culminating in his struggle with Richard the Lionheart during the Third Crusade. It also examines the complex motives of the Italian city states during the conquest of the Levant, as well as relations between the Frankish settlers and the indigenous population, both Eastern Christian and Muslim, in times of war and peace.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18316103-the-crusades-1095-1204

Any recommendations for the history of Southern Italy, particularly after the Normans and covering the early modern period until unification? I’m already aware of Julius Norwich’s book, and I plan to read that.

>>24611662
Amazon link goes to a biography of Robert E. Lee

>3 months from turning 90
Caro bros, are we ever getting Book #5?

>>24616753
Hopefully he handed off his notes like the guy who did this one on Churchill. But like Martin, he won't finish it.

>>24616403
Runciman's The Sicilian Vespers is a classic

This was a surprisingly good description of 16th century English life. What are the best books about 16th century English which are like it?

>>24617671
I quite enjoyed Buddy Levi's book about the first European expedition down the Amazon River.

>>24616753
I actually hope he doesn't so LBJ fags will finally shut up

>>24619172
He got less harsh about LBJ as each book came out. I wonder how he would be on the last one, with the Vietnam shit. Motherfucker was writing for so long, he started out when it was politically correct to call black people Negroes.

>>24593197 (OP)
Do any of you know the source for this excerpt?

>>24593197 (OP)
Any history books which employ literary theory?

Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I by Hans Delbrück

>analyzes the military tactics and strategies used by the great warriors of antiquity. >reconstruction of celebrated battles stretching from the Persian Wars to the Peloponnesian War, Alexander's campaign to conquer Asia, the Second Punic War and Hannibal's crossing of the Alps, and the triumph of the Roman legions and Julius Caesar

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1180521.Warfare_in_Antiquity

>Woodworth argues that Davis and Robert E. Lee, the South’s greatest military leader, had sharply conflicting views over the proper conduct of the war. Davis was convinced that the South should fight a defensive war, to simply outlast the North’s political and popular support for the war. By contrast, Lee and the other eastern generals—notably P.G.T. Beauregard, Gustavus Smith, and Stonewall Jackson—were eager for the offensive. They were convinced that only quick and decisive battlefield victories would prevent the North from eventually defeating them with its overwhelming advantage in men and materials.

Davis and Lee, Woodworth shows, shared a mutual respect for each other for most of the war. But it was respect mixed with a stubborn resistance to the other’s influence. The result of this tense tug-of-war was Davis’s misguided pursuit of a middle ground that gave neither strategy its best chance for success. The war finally ground to a bloody conclusion with Davis as indecisive as ever and virtually blind to how little confidence his generals had in his leadership.

Drawing extensively upon the papers of Jefferson Davis and the works of leading Civil War historians, Woodworth places the eastern military campaigns in an entirely new light and expands our understanding of Davis as leader of the Confederacy.

>>24619461
79% today BTW.

>>24620132
Davis is a very sympathetic figure, he's so pained and prickly and trying so hard not to be self-interested or venal

>>24620141
[New Moon Face Emoji]

>>24603709
>>24605174
Anything more brief? As good as this is it is insanely long. Wouldn't mind books on more standard industrialization and evolution of statecraft in the 18-19th century.

>>24616403
I studied Norman Italy in depth in the past year. Alex Metcalfe and Jeremy Johns are good starting points. Graham Loud also but I'm not sure how accessible all of these are outside a university setting. Norwich is a must read.

Other recommendations? David Abulafia - Frederick II, Norman Sicily - Donald Matthew

>>24608114
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

Almost finished picrel. On part 3 and I just got to H-Hour when the Americans land on Omaha. Shit's awesome. What really stands out to me though is just how many things went wrong for Allied troops on D-Day.

I've gotta pick picrel back up soon. I haven't touched it in like 2 months.

>>24593197 (OP)
some fascisms

>>24621534
anopther

>>24621031
I tried listening to that on audiobook and got bored halfway through

>>24593197 (OP)
Just got picrel

Thoughts?

>>24619788
How is it? I picked up volume IV a while back, but haven't got around to reading it yet.

>A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's.
I feel like there are so many gaps in my knowledge of history that I'm trying to fill them with some more "big-picture" surveys. Enjoying this book so far; I think I'm about 150 pages in.
>>24600958
Anonymous delivers. Just started reading this and really enjoying it so far.

>>24593649
>forever haunt western civilization
outside of britain nobody cares about this desu

>>24623947
I'm English-descended so I refuse to read it. As far as I'm concerned its a psyop.

books on the history of trade, commerce and capitalism?

>>24624320
>Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialized from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by sophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequent divergence can be attributed to different competitive and ecological pressures that in turn produced varied state policies and economic outcomes. This account breaks with conventional views, which hold that divergence occurred because Europe possessed superior markets, rationality, science, or institutions. It offers instead a groundbreaking rereading of global economic development that ranges from India, Japan and China to Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and coal industries to the roles of science, technology, and the state.

>>24624670
>Prasannan Parthasarathi

>>24624320
>The Ascent of Money reveals finance as the backbone of history, casting a new light on familiar events: the Renaissance enabled by Italian foreign exchange dealers, the French Revolution traced back to a stock market bubble, the 2008 crisis traced from America's bankruptcy capital, Memphis, to China's boomtown, Chongqing. We may resent the plutocrats of Wall Street but, as Ferguson argues, the evolution of finance has rivaled the importance of any technological innovation in the rise of civilization. Indeed, to study the ascent and descent of money is to study the rise and fall of Western power itself.
Your mileage may vary.

>>24624872
I thought this book was informative but towards the end it became a bunch of grumbling about current events style drivel. I finished it however.

>>24624926
I haven't finished it yet, so thanks for the heads up. I know Ferguson has an uneven reputation as a historian, but I don't know enough to know if it is because he is conservative, because he is popular, because there are serious issues with his books, or a combination of all three.

>>24596283
I heard a lot about this book. Is it historically still viable or is it outdated? Last time I read a old history book was Marie-Antoinette by stefan zweig, I was told that book was wrong on lots of stuff.

>>24608800
>the best book I've ever read on the Civil War
It's a solid enough book, but I still prefer the trilogies by Foote and Catton. I personally don't think you can really do justice to the subject in one volume.

>>24624320
Civilization and Capitalism (vols. 1,2,&3) Fernand Braudel
>>24624670
>Why Walmart Grew Rich and All the Small Towns They Infected Did Not

>>24593649
>>24624035
>average modern westerner

Any non-pozzed books on the Spanish Civil War or the Glorious Revolution and 17th Century England?

>>24625803
Can't help you on the Spanish Civil War but Hugh Trevor-Roper's "Crisis Of The Seventeenth Century" is good. Drags on a bit at the end, but its good nonetheless.

On another note, I decided to pick up some stuff on the Byzantine Empire, one by classical scholar Anthony Kaldellis and another one by Judith Herrin, is there any other perspectives on the period worth checking out? Thanks in advance.

>>24621534

>kill comies stamp
>written by a communist

Looking for a good book on chinese history

>>24627180
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt

>>24627180
>>24613854

>>24627180
This is a solid primer on modern Chinese history, starts basically with the Century of Humiliation but spends most of its time post-WWII.

>>24596283
>Barbara Tuchman
Which books by her are worth reading?

>>24627552
Sounds like propaganda honestly

>>24624931
(Same anon) i don't mind conservative historians but I tend to avoid Marxist (with some very notable exceptions) and any and all feminist history. What other books would you recommend on financial history? Ill check and see if I have them already.

>>24628226
All history books are propaganda. Being more overt about the policy goal makes it easier to filter and check bias.

>>24593197 (OP)
Good histories of city planning that aren't Robert Caro's book? The further back in history the better.

>>24628249
Great Streets by Allan B. Jacobs
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof

>>24628290
Out of print bub

The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980 by Steven F. Hayward

>The Age of Reagan brings to life the tumultuous decade and a half that preceded Ronald Reagan's ascent to the White House. Based on scores of interviews and years of research, Steven F. Hayward takes us on an engrossing journey through the most politically divisive years the United States has had to endure since the decade before the Civil War. Overseas, we were embroiled in a war we couldn't win; at home our streets had become battlefields; and in Washington, the old liberal order was collapsing under the weight of a long string of failed policies. "It seemed that an era of American optimism and progress had come to a close," Hayward writes. "The concatenation of Vietnam, Watergate, the recurrent energy crisis, the swooning economy, the increasingly disorderly world scene, and the failed presidencies associated with these events robbed Americans of their native optimism for the future."

>Meanwhile, from out of the West arose a new conservative movement led by Ronald Reagan, a one-time Hollywood actor whose speech in 1964 in support of the doomed candidacy of Barry Goldwater not only electrified a national television audience but also created a political star who would change the course of history.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209541.The_Age_of_Reagan

>>24628445
lmao, what a cuck response

>>24628474
I didn't ask for your input, nigger.

>>24628569
You got it anyway, cuckold.

>>24628626
Takes one to know one, pal

>>24628631
I don't generally have serious trouble sourcing out of print books when I wish to read them. There's usually some library or bookseller willing to make it happen.

>>24628649
Well in any case ill just probably use annas-archive in case I have to

>>24625860
there is not much written about fascism tho

>Looking for general history about human sacrificial practices (around the world preferably)
>>>Get "City of Sacrifice" it's just hundreds of pages of schizobabble about shit nobody cares about.
>Get "The Highest Altar" focuses on the fucking Inca specifically (even though it's billed as a general history of the practice)

I've thrown two books away now. I'm getting sick of this shit.

>>24628880
Arktos released something very recently.

That aside, what are some good biographies of cities? Anyone?

>>24629582
>be me
>want to get a book on the medieval inquisitions
>every fucking book is about the spanish inquisition

>>24629639
Shut up, jerk.

Hadrian by Anthony Birley is an interesting read about the mentioned emperor, and a nice counter part to Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

>>24629639
gaygpt is a friend use it

>>24610660
Absolute garbage. Takes the foundations laid by previous, more esteemed historians and adds nothing further of value.
A colossal waste of time.

>>24624984
Can central banking be defensible? Well in USA guy on 20 dollar bill cancelled the bank which caused economic crash. Can we live without it I wonder.

>>24593197 (OP)
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor

>The American Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s colonies, fueled by local conditions and resistant to control. Emerging from the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, the revolution pivoted on western expansion as well as seaboard resistance to British taxes. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. The war exploded in set battles like Saratoga and Yorktown and spread through continuing frontier violence.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30833531-american-revolutions

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 by Alan Taylor

>The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European empires and other independent republics on the North American continent. Native peoples sought to defend their homelands from the flood of American settlers through strategic alliances with the other continental powers. The system of American slavery grew increasingly powerful and expansive, its vigorous internal trade in Black Americans separating parents and children, husbands and wives. Bitter party divisions pitted elites favoring strong government against those, like Andrew Jackson, espousing a democratic populism for white men. Violence was both routine and the United States invaded Canada, Florida, Texas, and much of Mexico, and forcibly removed most of the Native peoples living east of the Mississippi. At the end of the period the United States, its conquered territory reaching the Pacific, remained internally divided, with sectional animosities over slavery growing more intense.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56987990-american-republics

American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873 by Alan Taylor

>The outbreak of the Civil War created a continental power vacuum that allowed French forces to invade Mexico in 1862 and set up an empire ruled by a Habsburg archduke. This inflamed the ongoing power struggle between Mexico’s Conservatives—landowners, the military, the Church—and Liberal supporters of social democracy, led ably by Benito Juarez. Along the southwestern border Mexico’s Conservative forces made common cause with the Confederacy, while General James Carleton violently suppressed Apaches and Navajos in New Mexico and Arizona. When the Union triumph restored the continental balance of power, French forces withdrew, and Liberals consolidated a republic in Mexico.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200124486-american-civil-wars

>>24630645
Goodson argues in favor of nationally controlled central banks banks (like the Central Bank of Libya under Gaddafi) and against independent central banks (like the Federal Reserve).

>>24630963
How would you characterize Mr. Taylor's bias through this series?

Has anyone read this? I've been wanting to get it for a while now.

>>24631134
Wouldnt nationally control central bank would just endless print money? In countries with independent banks, they generally resist the call to print more monies (turkey,USA) at least on surface level.

>>24630620
>early modern world
Retard

>>24632125
You are right hommie. Check this one out.
The System of the Inquisition in Medieval Europe

>>24628127
Henry Ford was called traitor to his class too for paying more than others. Really interesting.

>>24596549
This only covers one aspect of his life, but I thought Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial was good. It examines his political relationship to slavery and how his views shifted over time. Also gives a good look into how slavery in general influenced American politics in the early/mid 19th century.

>>24631857
>Wouldnt nationally control central bank would just endless print money?
The argument against this is inflation. You have to keep the masses in check so the ruling class will not print infinite money.

>>24608800
>>24623725
>Oxford History of the United States
These are some nice looking hardcovers.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/308899-the-oxford-history-of-the-united-states

Just read history textbooks. Look up a syllabus for a history class you find interesting and read the sources and follow the class.

>>24627180
pic related

>>24629639

Just read anything about him (if you like political intrigue look up his interactions with the Aragonese Crown)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_D%C3%A9licieux

Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution by John Ferling

>Setting the World Ablaze is the story of the American Revolution and of the three Founders who played crucial roles in winning the War of Independence and creating a new nation: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127785120-setting-the-world-ablaze

Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling

>Almost a Miracle offers an illuminating portrait of America's triumph, offering vivid descriptions of all the major engagements, from the first shots fired on Lexington Green to the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, revealing how these battles often hinged on intangibles such as leadership under fire, heroism, good fortune, blunders, tenacity, and surprise. Ferling paints sharp-eyed portraits of the key figures in the war, including General Washington and other American officers and civilian leaders. Some do not always measure up to their iconic reputations, including Washington himself. The book also examines the many faceless men who soldiered, often for years on end, braving untold dangers and enduring abounding miseries. The author explains why they served and sacrificed, and sees them as the forgotten heroes who won American independence.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/745364.Almost_a_Miracle

A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling

>"It was an age of brilliant leaders and agonizing choices, of soaring ideas and passionate conflicts. Even as it was happening, those who lived through the American Revolution knew it was an event that would change the world." We meet Samuel Adams, the Bostonian whose common touch enabled him to mobilize the laboring classes; Benjamin Franklin, a loyal British subject who realized his heart - and political opportunity - lay with America; and others who tried in vain to stem the tide of revolution, like Philadelphia's Joseph Galloway and Boston's dour Andrew Oliver. Here is the fire and tactical skills of patriots like Patrick Henry and John Adams, the difficult and doomed middle course of men like John Dickinson, and the titanic contest between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson to shape the early republic. The political stakes, this book demonstrates, were extraordinary; first to carry out a revolution against a mighty empire, and then to determine that revolution's meaning.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/607413.A_Leap_in_the_Dark

>>24634896
I really liked almost a miracle as somebody who knows nothing about the US. Are his other books just as good?

>>24593197 (OP)
What are some good histories of gender dynamics other than De Reincourt's "Woman And Power In History"? Or general histories of sex that aren't completely gross with the descriptions?

>>24635914
>In this pioneering study of the ways in which the first settlers defined the power, prerogatives, and responsibilities of the sexes, one of our most incisive historians opens a window onto the world of Colonial America. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Mary Beth Norton tells the story of the Pinion clan, whose two-generation record of theft, adultery, and infanticide may have made them our first dysfunctional family. She reopens the case of Mistress Ann Hibbens, whose church excommunicated her for arguing that God had told husbands to listen to their wives. And here is the enigma of Thomas, or Thomasine Hall, who lived comfortably as both a man and a woman in 17th century Virginia. Wonderfully erudite and vastly readable, Founding Mothers & Fathers reveals both the philosophical assumptions and intimate domestic arrangements of our colonial ancestors in all their rigor, strangeness, and unruly passion.

The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave

>Who were the Soongs? They were descendants of a Chinese runaway who grew up in America under the protection of the Methodist Church in the latter part of the nineteenth century and took the name of Charlie Soong. When Soong returned to China, he made a fortune printing and selling Western Bibles, and secretly backed the republican revolution of Sun Yat-sen against the Manchu dynasty.

>Of his six children, one daughter, Ching-ling, married Sun Yat-sen and later supported the Chinese Communists against the nationalist until her death in 1981. But all the other Soongs cast their lot with Chiang Kai-shek. One, May-ling married H.H. Kung, a lineal descendant of Confucius and the principal banker of nationalist China, and the eldest son, Harvard-educated T.V. Soong, became the economic wizard of Chiang's rise to power and at various times served Chiang as economic minister, foreign minister and premier. All of them, except Madame Sun Yat-sen, amassed enormous wealth while millions of Chinese starved or were killed in the long fight against Japan and the equally bitter struggle with Mao.

https://www.amazon.com/Soong-Dynasty-Sterling-Seagrave-ebook/dp/B01NCN6NWQ

>>24635909
>Are his other books just as good?
Yes. His military histories and biographies of George Washington and John Adams are quite good.

>>24593197 (OP)
meta history

>>24593197 (OP)
case histories

Anyone read picrel? Just got it and it seems pretty thick.

>>24636664
I have a paperback version sitting on my shelf

>>24636044
Thanks but I'm still a tad skeptical

>>24619162
Is this actually worth reading?

William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague

>biography of abolitionist William Wilberforce, the man who fought for twenty years to abolish the Atlantic slave trade

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3071114-william-wilberforce

so this chernow character is a ny jew who apparently wrote the book that became hamilton the musical...and now he's taken on another american hero? what's the catch? what anti american delusions came with this book?

>>24608552
gotta love shitheads with zero american ancestry prancing around like american's and rewriting our history

>>24639015
The catch is that he’s cashing in on writing these “definitive” biographies for the modern age in massive doorstopper single volume form when in reality people like Washington and Twain and Hamilton have already been written and discoursed about endlessly and often have more detailed multi-volume biographies published about them already. Chernow “discovers” (his research team does most likely nowadays) like 4-5 previously unused letters or journal entries or newspaper articles and justifies writing a new bio around them while adding “modern” perspectives when 99% of the biography is based on the old familiar well trodden sources. He is maybe a more skillful arranger than previous authors and writes in a more modern way (because god forbid the modern reader read prose written before like 1970), but I think at this point it’s just a way for him and his publishers and promoters to cash in on these American names with huge intrinsic recognition like Washington while attaching his name to it, because as long as America exists obviously books about Washington will always sell and bookstores will always want to be stocked with the most up-to-date and heavily advertised versions of those biographies. The previous ones after all are “out of date” and could potentially contain wrongthink, and think about it why rely on old books whose cashflow streams are drying out when you can issue a new one with more or less the same content (but with more “modern” editorializing) that will generate a whole new income stream? It’s the famous American names who sell, though personally I’d be interested in an updated biography of someone like Albert Gallatin written by a competent author, but hey he just doesn’t have the same name recognition so it won’t be done unless it’s by some academic autist deeply sequestered in some uni or something. All that said I think Chernow has previously done good work and original research early in his career like with his JP Morgan or Warburgs histories. Shame he’s become less original in his topics with time

>>24638945
Funny how the author of this book became potentially one election away from becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He just looked too funny though if I have to be honest, and since he was essentially the Tory sacrificial lamb in the early days of Tony Blair so he realistically had little chance. These British politicians seem to make rather good historians though, Roy Jenkins having written full length bios on Asquith, Gladstone, Churchill etc, and another Leader of the Opposition Michael Foot writing a 2 volume bio on Aneurin Bevan.

Bumping. I still haven’t finished this, but I’m working on it. I love Lizzie so much you have no idea. I want to be her Leicester so bad…

>>24593197 (OP)
How about something written by actual historians and not jewish journalists?

>>24639094
Shame we don't have academics as our presidents in the US. The last two that were high up that I can think of were Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger.

Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph by Alan Palmer

>No ruler in modern times reigned in full sovereignty for as long as Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slavonia. Titular master of central Europe from 1848 until 1916, he was center stage in Europe throughout the dramatic era in which Italy and Germany emerged as united nation states. His personal decisions were vital both to the outcome of the Crimean War and to the onset of World War I, sixty years later.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/730964.Twilight_of_the_Habsburgs

Still working through the Short History of WW2. Current takeaway is that Hitler's ideological fanaticism and general inability seriously hurt the Nazi war effort. Not recruiting the Ukrainians to fight against the Russians because they weren't "Aryan" was retarded. The closest I've come to a chronological overview of the entire event is playing one of the old Call of Duty games, so it's been eye-opening to read about the entire thing from a bird's-eye view.
>>24630963
Just borrowed American Revolutions from my dad the other day.

>>24641296
The Destruction of Lord Raglan a Tragedy of the Crimean War by Christopher Hibbert

>In March 1854, a British army of 30,000 men sailed for the Crimea to defend the crumbling Turkish empire from Russia. It was led by Lord Raglan, a veteran of Waterloo. The campaign quickly degenerated into a series of military disasters caused by incompetence at the highest level, bitter personal rivalries among the divisional commanders and inadequacies of transport, clothing and military and medical supplies. To enable to the British government to survive, Raglan was made the scapegoat. This text presents the story of the tragic campaign.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2035865.The_Destruction_of_Lord_Raglan_a_Tragedy_of_the_Crimean_War

The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Bart Van Loo

>At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57613369-the-burgundians

Love these threads.
I found Robert K. Massie's Peter the Great unputdownable. It strikes a perfect balance between scholarly depth and popular readability.Consistently engaging without ever feeling dry. Of course, Massie also had the benefit of an endlessly fascinating subject.
I was going to move onto something else now I finished it but I think i might read Massie's book on Catherine the great next

>>24642330
is this book any good? i've always been interested in the duchy of burgundy and especially charles the bold

Hello, has anyone written a book about white flight or the takeover of American cities by nonwhites during the 20th century

>>24643233
the unheavenly city by edward banfield?

>>24640780
Woodrow Wilson was an academic political scientist who wrote quite a few books, you can check them out if you're interested.

>>24643233
Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities by Jack Cashill

>>24593197 (OP)
How true is it that Mark Twain was basically a proto just be a decent fucking human being redditor

>>24643567
I never trust a book that has to tell me they are the "true story". Let your evidence and sources do the convincing.

>>24593197 (OP)
Good cultural history of Brazil?

>"Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire" by Peter H. Wilson offers a comprehensive examination of the Holy Roman Empire, challenging the traditional view of it as an ineffective and archaic entity. Wilson argues that the Empire, despite its decentralized nature and internal conflicts, played a crucial role in shaping European history and its legacy can still be seen in modern political structures like the European Union.

>The book provides a detailed account of the Empire's thousand-year history, from its origins under Charlemagne to its dissolution by Napoleon. Wilson explores the Empire's key aspects, including its political structures, religious dynamics, and social fabric, highlighting its unique characteristics and contributions to European civilization. He delves into the Empire's complex relationship with the papacy, the concept of imperial rule, and the diverse identities of its inhabitants, demonstrating how these elements shaped the Empire's development and its eventual decline.

>>24643748
He kinda is but just without the vulgarity. Also worth pointing out he joined the Confederate Army during the Civil War though he never actually fought, so I think it’s remarkable he developed into who he became in life because he clearly didn’t have the same beliefs when young, if he had any at all. The thing that sets his apart is that he was a first rate humorist, and especially for that era when everyone seemed so dour. The Innocents Abroad is some of the best travel writing to come from the 19th century mainly because of the tongue in cheek aspect of it while still being able to discourse on culture and history and all that, though of course Twain never pretends to be an intellectual. His coverage of traveling in the Holy Land in the 19th century is particularly good because of how honest it is

>>24628213
The Proud Tower is also a good read, and generally holds up fairly well, especially relative to A Distant Mirror (which, from a layman's perspective I get the impression medievalists have pretty thoroughly torn apart).
Stillwell and the American Experience in China is also good if you're interested in that period.

I've read a book in Italian that deals with esotericism and the risorgimento, is there something similar for Germany, ie from Napoleon until 1914?
Also what are the best books about 19th century esotericism in the anglo sphere? I'm especially interested in spiritualism but theosophy is also good.

>>24606311
Treadgold's History of the Byzantine State and Society

>>24630963
>>24633484
>>24634896
>>24642821
>American Revolutions
>Almost a Miracle
>The Glorious Cause
Very happy to see some histories of the American Revolution getting some love here, I've sampled a number of them over the years and I've been pleasantly surprised at how well written and interesting they usually are.

Back before /his/ turned into /pol/ 2.0, m00t was right that would happen, we use to do these threads all the time. Somebody made a huge imgur album that collected a lot of these topics if you're interested in this shit.

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

>>24646420
thanks for sharing

>>24646800
One of the definitive biographies on Hitler. This and Part I are very thorough and very well done.

bump

>>24629582
Sell them to a used bookstore to get store credit so you can get good books desu

>>24649928
Sounds a bit like Jewish drivel

>>24646800
Is this a Hitler biography for ants?

>>24649928
I think all of its proxy states are more convincing evidence of it being an empire than some islands.

>Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI’s first cases.

>But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world’s first social revolution of the twentieth century.

>Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas’ story integral to modern American life.

>>24593197 (OP)
Anyone got any good books on the ancient/medieval lmiddle east/central asia

>>24649928
I don't think the imperialists wanted to hide their conquest.

>>24652882
>In the the Pogroms of 1918-1921 Midst of and the onset of the Holocaust Civilized Jeffrey Veidlinger Europe

>>24598819
>>24599508
Just go to the closest to primary source that we have, The Florentine Codex assembled by Sahugún. In particular, I think Book 2 on ceremonies is the one that's most detailed on sacrifices

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

>In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century.

>Published November 30, 2021 by Yale University Press

https://goodreads.com/book/show/57615568-collapse

>>24651646
>In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.

>>24653866
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-BZ3r5_KEfU&pp=ygUMcmVhZ2FuIHNtYXNo0gcJCa0JAYcqIYzv

>>24601980
>This is exactly why I don't read history books if the author is a woman.
Same, unless it's Barbara Tuchman.

Any good books about the Gilded Age?

>>24655799
Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons is quite good although a little biased, you might guess which way from the title.

>>24598819
>>24599508
seconding what >>24653580 said, while nothing that there's some differences between the Spanish and Nahuatl texts in the book, so you should try to read both.

>>24598819
>>24599508
>>24657416
oh, and the pictures in them are also pretty important due to Mesoamerican pictographic traditions, so you should make sure to study them too.

I found a David Irving book in a thrift store once. Unfortunately the spine was badly broken and the pages were starting to fall out so I didn't buy it of course. Still, cool find anyways.

Best books on American protestantism? Books that steelman it?

Finished picrel a week or so ago. Very good.

Any good books on the most advanced technology pre electricity? So like late 1800s/early 1900s?

>>24658920
>so I didn't buy it
You did yourself a favor

Got a good deal on this set. Been wanting to read it since I watched the Ken Burns documentary.

>>24603202
Reading this right now. It's rather boring. Lacks narrative. But maybe World War books aren't for me. I still have John Keegan's "The First World War" and >>24601937 to read and I hope they are better.

>>24659045
Seconding.

>>24659846
Shelby Foote is well worth reading, he strikes a good balance between a narrative and academic historical style. Sometimes it gets a little melodramatic, but it was easy enough to get through.

Prelude to the Revolution: The Murder of Rasputin by Ronald Moe

>This is the story of the dissolution of the mighty empire of the Russian Tsars and of the man, Grigory Rasputin, whose murder sealed its fate. The murder of Rasputin and the dissolution of the Romanov monarchy were events of extraordinary significance during the early Twentieth Century with consequences continuing to the present day nearly a century later.

>The author, Ronald Moe, describes Russia under Nicholas II (1894-1917) with its fascination for mysticism, commitment to the fine arts, especially ballet, rapid industrial growth, and the political struggles and progress toward achieving a working constitutional monarchy. All this was placed at risk by Russia's involvement in World War I and especially by the presence of a staretz ("holy man") near the throne bringing it into disrepute. When all the efforts to remove Rasputin from the Imperial presence failed, the rich, handsome, Prince Felix Yusupov, married to the Tsar's niece, determined to organize a conspiracy to murder Rasputin.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13263808-prelude-to-the-revolution

A few threads ago there was a chart on books about Medieval and Renaissance Italy, can anyone who has it saved post it please?

>>24633484
>>24656738
>What hath God wrought
—1844.

>>24661705
This?

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

>>24662118
That's the one, thanks anon.

Swords Around A Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armée by John R. Elting

>Elting examines every facet of this incredibly complex human machine: its organization, command system, logistics, weapons, tactics, discipline, recreation, mobile hospitals, camp followers, and more. From the army's formation out of the turmoil of Revolutionary France through its swift conquests of vast territories across Europe to its legendary death at Waterloo, this book uses excerpts from soldiers' letters, eyewitness accounts, and numerous firsthand details to place the reader in the boots of Napoleon's conscripts and generals.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18890420-swords-around-a-throne

Why are you just spamming random book covers along with back cover summaries?

>>24658262
Doe he talks about the white slave trade or just brownoids?

>>24644040
>The Innocents Abroad is some of the best travel writing to come from the 19th century
Agreed. A Tramp Abroad, Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It are also excellent.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53

>>24662987
It's the Transatlantic one, but he does mention some of the Barbary pirates.

>>24619461
Still haven't figured this out but I've sourced two of the citations if anyone is interested:
[137] Rev. FB Zincke. "Last Winter in the United States"
https://archive.org/details/lastwinterin00zincrich/mode/2up?q=%22lowest+and+most+vicious%22
[138] William A. Bell. "New Tracks in North America"
https://archive.org/details/newtracksinnorth00belluoft/page/14/mode/2up?q=%22like+mushrooms%22

I've readen "Le Morte d'Arthur" so besides "Matter of Britain", how exactly should I start with the Arthurian myths due to the many convergences between stories? I know Chrétien is a good start, but I don't know who else should I pick

>>24664696
play ace combat 0

Had to drop this halfway through when the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century was derided as not real because “history isn’t just white men doing white men things”

Fucking shame too because I really loved the concept, there were little slips here and there where you could tell the authors were very postmodern but I appreciate how they (tried) to treat medieval people like people and not retarded grubby chimpanzees.

Any good general medieval histories? I need one that isn’t Whigs dunking on stupid unenlightened Papists or wokies over correcting to dunk on the Whigs

>>24665261
Looks like I won't pick that up then. Try Annales School histories

>>24596977
>Team of Rivals
Good recommendation.

>>24663392
Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It are superb, no caveats required. I guess maybe that the early part of Life is a little dry. Innocents Abroad is sometimes charming but mostly dry. He spends an unconscionable amount of the book describing how he hates Arabs. I need no encouragement, and would have preferred more time spent educating the layman on hatred of the French.

>>24667989
Is that where us Burgers get our dislike of Frogs? Seems apt.

>>24628213
>>24645065
Guns of August and Proud Tower are superb. Distant Mirror is a bit of a failure IMO. It has a nominal "main character" but falls into an unhappy medium where it neither focuses in on his life enough to sufficiently dramatize it or draws back to the larger picture to provide a sense of the times.

The First Salute was quite good. There's a line in it which I love, gonna paraphrase from memory...

> As [French Admiral] DeGrasse [who was coming to support the decisive Yorktown campaign] neared the harbor, he saw a tall man on the dock, jumping up and down "as though he had taken leave of his senses." When he landed, he discovered that this was General Washington."

>>24667997
No, we get it because we're descended spiritually (and sometimes literally, even for the muttiest) from the English, who hate the French as a direct result of substantial past experience.

>>24596549
David Herbert Donald

>>24654012
very interesting subject matter, but female author

>>24667989
>would have preferred more time spent educating the layman on hatred of the French
How I feel about most modern novels.

>>24593197 (OP)
Thoughts on the Teddy Roosevelt novels by Edmund Morris?

>>24667997
I was under the impression the memes started when they didn't enter Vietnam with us (they warned us against getting involved) and were reinvigorated when they didn't go into Afghanistan with us ("freedom fries" era).

>>24669554
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt was excellent. haven't read the whole series yet.