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Bullbar posted:Can anybody suggest a good book (or books) about the English civil war? Not a big Civil War guy but Trevor Royle's Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms is a good enough narrative account.
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I'm going to be teaching a course that covers Germany from 1919-1963. I'm not at all clued up about anything German post-1945. What are some quick-ish, introductory level things I could read?
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May 21, 2018 18:22
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Cyrano4747 posted:Jarausch’s After Hitler is my go to single volume work on that. Thanks for finding my post and recommending that, I'll definitely be checking it out. I'm currently re-covering the earlier period with Bracher's The German Dictatorship. I was fairly clueless about the intellectual roots of national socialism so it's really interesting to read. With regards to China, Jonathan Fenby's Penguin History of Modern China is easy to read as a narrative. If you're at all into cultural history then Cho-yun Hsu's China: A New Cultural History was interesting to me, although I remember my lecturer saying that she wasn't fully on board with the idea of making it 'A Cultural History' (as in one, singular history). She did however write an oral history of the Great Famine, based on interviews she just about got away with doing a few years ago, called Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine.
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Jul 1, 2018 18:31
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I think I might know the answer to this one, but I am going to read Chang and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story next. Why? Because it's been on my shelf for a long time and I'm aiming to read more history this year. Also, because my boss asked for 'honest feedback' from us employees the other day, and I used the Hundred Flowers Campaign as an example to colleagues to explain my concerns, which in turn got me thinking I should get around to reading this. Is it really bad? It won't stop me reading it if it is, but I do recall people saying it's something of a character assassination?
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Jan 14, 2021 16:49
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Thanks everyone. I will probably go ahead and give it a read with my critical lens in place. I like Frank Dikötter and read him at university. My lecturer, who I have mentioned ITT before, was an acquaintance of his. She has written a book this year which, by coincidence, happens to be on public health in China. Obviously she was researching and writing this before the pandemic but it's a timely book for sure, and an interesting one. One topic she discusses is the CCP campaign to eradicate schistomiasis. Her parents were involved in this campaign when she was growing up. One fascinating parallel with the modern pandemic is that, during the campaign to improve hygiene officials were trying to get people to stop spreading night soil (poo poo) on their crops. People pretty much straight up refused because they said that they couldn't grow enough food without it, so they'd rather take their chances with the disease.
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