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I enjoyed People's Tragedy when I read it, but Figes really is such a catastrophic fuckup that it overshadows everything positive about his work. I thought Mark Steinberg's Oxford Histories entry was a good general replacement.
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Foote's weird. He's definitely writing with one hand when it comes to the Confederacy, but A) he's pretty good at creating a fluent historical narrative and B) his books dominated the field of study for a good couple of decades, so he's an important read for the historiography of the Civil War. That said, if you're just looking for material on the war itself, pitch Foote into the trash and pick up McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. It does everything Foote's books do better, in a single volume, and without the abiding love of slavers.
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Any general recommendations about the Russo-Japanese War? I realized most of what I know about it comes from histories of the 1905 Revolution and felt real dumb for a bit there.
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Global Disorder posted:I can't help you with the military side, but Japanese historian Masayoshi Matsumura has two books about Japan's public diplomacy during the conflict: Baron Suematsu in Europe During the Russo-Japanese War and Baron Kaneko and the Russo-Japanese War. Very readable histories of two Meiji leaders attempting to convince Americans and British that Japan represented the West in a war against Asian barbarism. And their troubles dealing with the yellow peril idea that was spread around the time. Nah, that's great. If you've got any recommendations for social histories of Japan and Korea around that time, that'd be even better.
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Jun 30, 2021 17:07
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You must be a virgin, because you just found Suny's The Soviet Experiment.
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Smoking Crow posted:Hello, I'm looking for an overview of the French revolution. I don't care about readability, I just want the best I'd say the choice is between A New World Begins or Peter McPhee's Liberty or Death. Popkin does a better job covering Haiti, McPhee wants to show you his Jacobin trading card set.
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Feb 23, 2022 02:41
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Did Figes ever recover from exploding his divorce out in public and the review sockpuppet thing? I liked People's Tragedy and it'd be nice to be able to recommend it to folks again.
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Apr 5, 2022 16:17
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Any recommendations for a history of currency that isn't by goldbugs or crypto bros?
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Thanks for the recommendations, y'all. I'm always down for recommendations that are related but not necessarily dead on, and it's one of the reasons I like asking for recs in this thread.
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