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Some people like Mary Roach but I absolutely can't stand her work. I think Mike Dash is my sweet spot for history book writing style. I've never seen an author who seemed more committed to having faith that the story will tell itself.
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I'm reading Crucible of War now and it's very interesting seeing how the dynamics of this world war playing into the US Revolution. I had no idea.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 06:17 |
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anyone got a book about the Arab conquests or German migrations? Basically any good books about the VolkerWanderung.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 06:37 |
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Stumbled over a war diary of a Lancaster pilot which might be interesting for those who hasn't seen it: http://www.lancasterdiary.net/index.php
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PawParole posted:anyone got a book about the Arab conquests or German migrations? Basically any good books about the VolkerWanderung. Before France and Germany: the creation and transformation of the Merovingian world by Geary is pretty solid. https://www.amazon.com/Before-France-Germany-Transformation-Merovingian/dp/0195044584/ref=nodl_ It’s not quite exactly about what your talking about but it deals with it heavily. The first third iirc is basically about that and then it gets into how it impacted the creation of early medieval Western European states.
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# ? Feb 2, 2020 22:45 |
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Can anyone recommend books about the papal interregnum between 1500-1700? The only book I can find is The Vacant See by John Hunt and it's like $200 and not available at any of my local libraries. I really want to read about crazy between-pope crimes!
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# ? Feb 10, 2020 21:48 |
Strange Cares posted:Can anyone recommend books about the papal interregnum between 1500-1700? The only book I can find is The Vacant See by John Hunt and it's like $200 and not available at any of my local libraries. I really want to read about crazy between-pope crimes! gonna need some clarification here bc the longest papal interregnum was only like three years and it was in the 13th century. there definitely was not a 200 year papal interregnum
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chernobyl kinsman posted:gonna need some clarification here bc the longest papal interregnum was only like three years and it was in the 13th century. there definitely was not a 200 year papal interregnum I mean the various papal interregnums that occurred in roughly that period. Sort of a book on the various interregnums and the things that happened therein, and the sorts of things that they meant for Italy more broadly, the politics around them etc.
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Thank you to whoever recommended The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple It's approachable for someone like me who knows very little about the subject and I thought it was an enjoyable read
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:25 |
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EoinCannon posted:Thank you to whoever recommended The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple I asked about that and I think it was actually given an anti-recommendation.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 01:30 |
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What are some good books about American electoral history? Something like Rick Perlstein (Nixonland), I mean. Something that captures the insanity of the whole thing.
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team overhead smash posted:I asked about that and I think it was actually given an anti-recommendation. I'd be interested to know what the criticisms are (I can't be bothered searching the thread), I don't know the history well enough to comment. It didn't seem to be pushing a particular viewpoint very strongly, it does have a general view that large corporations shouldn't be able to do whatever they want I guess
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 04:31 |
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I've recently seen Laura Engelstein's Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 start popping up on shelves, wonder where it stands in relation to the many other books on the Revolution.
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FPyat posted:I've recently seen Laura Engelstein's Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 start popping up on shelves, wonder where it stands in relation to the many other books on the Revolution. It's been reasonably well reviewed. It's a top-down study (whether you think that's good or bad is another issue), and a bit slight on modern scholarship. But no serious complaints.
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Mantis42 posted:What are some good books about American electoral history? Something like Rick Perlstein (Nixonland), I mean. Something that captures the insanity of the whole thing. For straight campaign books: What It Takes, about the 88 election. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (72) and Looking Forward To It (2004) for somewhat less serious (though not any less accurate) books. And of course Caro’s LBJ books.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 07:59 |
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All's Fair is a super fun campaign book. However, it's not written in a remotely academic style, for obvious reasons.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 08:05 |
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Mantis42 posted:What are some good books about American electoral history? Something like Rick Perlstein (Nixonland), I mean. Something that captures the insanity of the whole thing. Perlstein's Before the Storm is a similarly excellent book about Goldwater and the '64 election. There's no shortage of insane stories, backroom deals, and it talks a lot about the emergence of the modern conservative movement in terms that seem eerily prescient in the age of Trump. Pakled fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Feb 11, 2020 |
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I've read all his books, I was looking for something equally good for other time periods.
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# ? Feb 11, 2020 08:27 |
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FPyat posted:I've recently seen Laura Engelstein's Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914 - 1921 start popping up on shelves, wonder where it stands in relation to the many other books on the Revolution. It's fine and you won't go wrong or be led astray reading it. Probably one of the better centenary surveys.
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EoinCannon posted:I'd be interested to know what the criticisms are (I can't be bothered searching the thread), I don't know the history well enough to comment. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3458502&pagenumber=81&perpage=40#post501604268 I ended up buying it anyway when it ended up being on the Kindle Daily deals a few days later. I didn't find it great, but I was reading it when i was incredibly sick so I'm not sure how valid or even lucid my take on the book was.
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Strange Cares posted:I mean the various papal interregnums that occurred in roughly that period. Sort of a book on the various interregnums and the things that happened therein, and the sorts of things that they meant for Italy more broadly, the politics around them etc. Seems like I’m just getting crickets on this, so I’ll broaden- can anyone recommend a history of the papacy from 1500-1700?
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Strange Cares posted:I mean the various papal interregnums that occurred in roughly that period. Sort of a book on the various interregnums and the things that happened therein, and the sorts of things that they meant for Italy more broadly, the politics around them etc. I didn't read it, but I've heard good things about John Hunt's The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum. May or may not be your thing, as it focuses on how the people of Rome reacted to the pope's death. Here's a review: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7651/reviews/168244/michelson-hunt-vacant-see-early-modern-rome-social-history-papal Review posted:At the death of a pope, most people think immediately of the secrecy of conclave and the drama of the white smoke. The early modernists add interregnal violence. John Hunt, in this rigorously researched book, has opened up the last of these to detailed analysis. His vibrant account of the vacant see between 1559 and 1655 gives us the papal interregnum from the perspective of the Roman populace. The vacant see, a topsy-turvy intermezzo characterized by ritualized rumor, violence, vengeance, protest, and speculation, had its own importance. Hunt’s first argument is that the vacant see worked. The voice of the people was audible; it reached the pope and his associates, and influenced their immediate actions. More broadly, the vacant see provided a “regular check on the absolutist pretensions of early modern popes” (p. 265). His second argument, demonstrated in the body of his research, is that the vacant see should not be considered a period of simple chaos and disorder. Even at its most heated, Romans followed particular patterns of behavior, with varied but defined motives.
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Global Disorder posted:I didn't read it, but I've heard good things about John Hunt's The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum. May or may not be your thing, as it focuses on how the people of Rome reacted to the pope's death. Here's a review: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7651/reviews/168244/michelson-hunt-vacant-see-early-modern-rome-social-history-papal Haha that’s actually the book that led me here. I’d love to read it, but the only copy I can find is $200, and my local library doesn’t have it, so I’m looking for alternatives
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# ? Feb 13, 2020 12:11 |
Strange Cares posted:Haha that’s actually the book that led me here. I’d love to read it, but the only copy I can find is $200, and my local library doesn’t have it, so I’m looking for alternatives it’s on libgen
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it’s on libgen What is libgen? I’m afraid I’m unfamiliar
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Strange Cares posted:What is libgen? I’m afraid I’m unfamiliar It's a pirate website. Maybe don't talk about it here.
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Oh, yeah. I’d prefer to get my books from a legal source. I appreciate you trying to help though, Chernobyl
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StrixNebulosa posted:It's a pirate website. Maybe don't talk about it here. people drop links to it and sci-hub all the time on SAL. its essential for academic work. calling it "a pirate website" is taking Elsevier's side lol
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Strange Cares posted:Haha that’s actually the book that led me here. I’d love to read it, but the only copy I can find is $200, and my local library doesn’t have it, so I’m looking for alternatives Did you try asking the reference desk if they can get it on inter-library loan? They might be able to get a copy from an academic library.
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The_Other posted:Did you try asking the reference desk if they can get it on inter-library loan? They might be able to get a copy from an academic library. I’ll try that! I kind of gave up after it wasn’t in the general library system. Thanks!
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chernobyl kinsman posted:people drop links to it and sci-hub all the time on SAL. its essential for academic work. calling it "a pirate website" is taking Elsevier's side lol Wait, really? I had no idea, and I have no idea who elsevier is. I just want to be sure you don't get folks in trouble here with SA's no piracy rule.
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Strange Cares posted:Oh, yeah. I’d prefer to get my books from a legal source. I appreciate you trying to help though, Chernobyl that sort of thing is pretty essential for out of print books that aren't easily obtainable, especially more academic stuff if you don't have access to a university library.
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StrixNebulosa posted:Wait, really? I had no idea, and I have no idea who elsevier is. I just want to be sure you don't get folks in trouble here with SA's no piracy rule. Elsevier is a predatory academic publisher (but I repeat myself) that makes tons of money off monopolizing research that should be freely available to the public. They're the reason if you go to a random academic journal page it wants you to pay $35 to read a four-page PDF.
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vyelkin posted:Elsevier is a predatory academic publisher (but I repeat myself) that makes tons of money off monopolizing research that should be freely available to the public. gently caress them then. Thanks for the info.
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# ? Feb 14, 2020 03:17 |
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I am going to Berlin in March for the first time as an adult. What’s a good book to read about the wall/postwar Berlin?
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# ? Feb 21, 2020 03:06 |
Starks posted:I am going to Berlin in March for the first time as an adult. What’s a good book to read about the wall/postwar Berlin? stasiland: stories from behind the berlin wall by anna funder
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# ? Feb 21, 2020 07:43 |
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Are there any solid texts about the lead up to the Cuban Revolution or post-Revolutionary Cuba?
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A Dapper Walrus posted:Are there any solid texts about the lead up to the Cuban Revolution or post-Revolutionary Cuba? I enjoyed Edward Boorstein's "The Economic Transformation of Cuba".
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# ? Feb 25, 2020 05:57 |
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Any good books on Audible about Frederick the Great and/or the Seven Years War in Europe?
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Looking for some recommendations on books that focus on architecture and art on Rome and another more specifically focusing on The Vatican. Might be taking a trip next year to visit and like to read up to be familiar. Anything else recommended to read prior to a trip there is welcomed as well.
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