What was the last actual, physical, published, written by someone who actually did some research, work on a historical subject that you read, /his/?jewtube, wikipedia, et. al. need not apply. This board is dead anyways, so I'm killing a Gervais shitpost thread to see if any of you faggots actually know how to read.
/his/ doesn’t read.Pic related is the last book I read. I thought it was well done. Now I’m moving on to a book on Slovakia; I’m excited to start it later today.
>>17414286Based and comfy-pilled. Currently reading picrel. They just don't make writers like Mapp these days.
>>17414267I highly recommend Lockley!
>>17414267I don’t read books all my historical knowledge comes from Crash course
>>17414499The average /his/tard, unironically
>>17414267Rabbi Marc Lee Raphael is impressive. His sources were systematically rounded up by jewish congregations, and the remaining copies restricted to private libraries. He might be the Rosetta Stone of trans-Atlantic slave studies, given how many primary sources and great secondary research was redacted. Same reason many of the same groups have been trying to take down Wayback Machine and archive.org
>>17414267David Irving's work (if it survives the censorship bonfires of the 21st century) will be regarded as exceptional for uncovering original sources in government archives and interviews of historical individuals.
>Origins of the Late War by George LuntBest Civil War research, most of it from original sources, written immediately after the war by a man who lived through it. Very much like modern investigative journalism, but written by someone with encyclopedic knowledge of political "inside baseball" at the time. Given the author's sympathies, sort of a minority report countering the victor's narrative.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lunt
One of the best sources of Colonial Era history, especially for understanding how private capital rode "stealth" on top of government policy. Author served in various governments, so knew where the "bodies were buried" and filled his longer works with a lot of valuable original source materials. Another great work by JA Hobson is "Imperialism: A Study" where he breaks down "rentier capitalism" in the context of colonial policy, showing how loan capital and stock manipulation drove many significant events (especially wars) in colonial history.
Currently reading. Very complete and erudite.
Great source for understanding how unregulated colonial banking cartels drove the slave economy, and exploited both sides for profit during the American Civil War. Also great source for understanding politics during the Jacksonian era, especially the struggle to reduce the power of the banking cartels. Relevant to understand the emergence of the Federal Reserve later, and the transformation of politics during the 20th century.
Great work on Umayyad Era (caliphate of Cordoba) Spain.
>>17414267I forget the journal, but it was about how animal trials were used in medieval France and England.
Picrel should be required reading here
>>17414677>complete and unabridged in one volumeWhat the fuck is wrong with you?
>>17414677>should be required reading>The Conquest of Mexico and the Conquest of PeruI can’t think of a topic that interests me less. Why should I bother?
>>17414267Hitler's War
>>17414596>No, it wasn't really about slaves! Ignore all the Southern screaming about slavery please, they didn't mean it.>The war is the North's fault because it just is ok? They should have left the poor South, who never did anything and had no agency, alone.>Freeing the slaves was bad for them. Look at how badly they're doing! Dealing with violence and famine from planters trying to force them back into a servile state. This is obviously the North's fault.Lmao. Lunt was a hardcore copperhead and perpetual slave power supporter, both before and after the war. He wrote his book as a blatantly revisionist polemic against his political enemies in the North. You're being taken 150 year old propaganda.
>>17414680>complaining about not-the-workBuy both volumes if you prefer, wtf is your problem>>17414682>can’t think of a topic that interests me less. Why reply to something you don't care about?>Why should I bother?You shouldn't, you obvious don't read.>>17414720>LAWL LAWL LAW>HE WAS BADTHINK WRONGTHINK LAWLso was everyone at the time you fucking tool, you don't study history to find ideological validation.go back >>>/r/eddit
>>17414724I was the first reply to this thread. You said it should required reading, so explain why. Stop getting so defensive.
>>17414726>You said it should required reading, so explain whyIt's well written and thorough. You said you're not interested, I'm not here to fucking evangelize you to become interested. Neck yourself you cancerous tourist.
>>17414729Take a 15 minute break, breathe in and out, and then maybe you can try coming back and explaining why everyone is required to read your favorite book.
>>17414724>HE WAS BADTHINK WRONGTHINK LAWLWhy are you so emotionally invested in this? Your pic is also totally irrelevant to the matter at hand. Your inability to make any counterargument just shows that you don't actually know anything about the context and reasoning behind the book and just took it at face value as an honest account. Your complaint about idealogical validation is hilarious when that's clearly the whole reason you got taken by the book.
>>17414762>Why are you so emotionally invested in this?>>17414753>Take a 15 minute breakI'm not in love with you, I just told you to fuck off. Just fuck off, farm (you)'s for dopamine withdrawal elsewhere.
>>17414772Anon, calm down. You're spazzing out for no reason.
>>17414753>explain why everyone is required to read your favorite bookHe said that it was well written and thorough.
>>17414823If I came in here and threw up a book saying it needs to be read by everyone here, required reading, I would give more justification than “it’s well written and thorough.” I have read well written and thorough books that I wouldn’t recommend.
This and Crisis in Byzantium. If you want 700 pages on the nitty gritty of Nazi administration and thought process throughout the war, I recommend Hitler's Empire. The 700 pages seem daunting, but Mazower's writing style is very succinct and enjoyable. Crisis in Byzantium is about the historical development of theology in the Greek Church during and after the Latin occupation of Constantinople and how it shaped relations with the Roman Church. While it is shorter than Mazower's 700 pages, it is a bit of a slow read. Though the amount of research poured into it is more than evident.
I'm currently reading pic related
>>17414267>high IQ>can't even post a picture the right way up
>>17414898Holy based>>17414930Not my fault the Indonesian goat weaving forum is like this.
>>17414267Arian's the Campaigns of Alexander.>>17414286pop history
>>17414889Can confirm as a comfy read.
>>17414267>The Cooking GeneBased culinary Darwinist
>>17414949>pop historyI guess it is a little bit, but it wasn’t that bad.
>>17414976all im saying is that we should just continue to keep englishmen, nordics, and fucking midwesterners out of the kitchen before they give us a half-frozen half-melted literal fish dog-food cheese sloppa meal
In the middle of Reading Polybius right now
>>17414976>>17414987It's actually an exploratory "memoir" by a gay negro who converted to Judaism kekDecent read. He does his best to track down his ancestry (including, of course, the white mas'suh that knocked up one of his grandmothers) and gives some good food descriptors/recipes.
>>17415014>greater than NapoleonBASED Nappy just fucked up the backwaters of western Europe and a decrepit Spain. The last clown from a century of actual Greats.Marlborough >>> everyone else >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the Corsican autist
Most recent read. Good shit.
>>17415135What's the thesis of this book?
>>17415415That Jefferson wasn't "le shining beacon of liberty" the way he's been mythologized as. Dude was highkey the "monarchist" that he painted Washington and Adams as through his network of yes men that wrote letters/newspaper pieces for him.
>>17415425>men that wrote letters/newspaper pieces for him.oy gevalt, it's like a meshuggenah 18th century hitlah ova here
>>17415426>embargoes the entire east coast and tanks the economy because this will somehow spite Britain >"h-hey Thomas, I-I uh... I don't think it's working..." - Gallatin>"fuck you" - Jefferson Fuck off /pol/tranny
>>17415439And then he, what, sent his goons to arrest gallatin and throw him in prison, tar and feather him,?
>>17415448>to arrest his own Secretary of the TreasuryNo seriously, fuck off you >>>/pol/tranny
>>17414267>so I'm killing a Gervais shitpost thread to see if any of you faggots actually know how to read.BASED
>>17415461This seems to be a very personal matter judging by how upset you're getting
Good overview but obviously not too In depth
What's a good book on the GDR?
Currently reading this book on Central Asia, read a book on the Golden Horde just before. I'll go back to reading the Romans after this, I plan to read Appian, Plutarch and other sources of the Late Republic I've yet to read yet.>>17415014Polybius is pretty fun, I'd put him up there with Thucydides. Having such a self aware and analytical ancient writer is something you won't really get again.
>>17414823They're triggered someone used the phrase "required reading" because anons say that on /pol/ to emphasize something is important or significant to their worldview. Used elsewhere, the phrase probably indicates that something is a good example of historical work, or significant academically. Seems to be the case here, since Prescott is famous for his use of personal correspondence and giving equal weight to indigenous accounts. Nothing obviously chud-like about the work from what I can tell.
>>17414267The last book I finished was The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan. It is a great environmental history book about the 1300s to 1800s. Very well done. I am currently reading Brand Luther by Andrew Pettegree. Which fuses the history of religion, printing, and capitalism into an interesting read.
>>17414267This bad boy by Richard "Big Dick" Carrier.
>>17415426Kek
>>17415841Based>>17415931Faggot alert
>>17414267Turchin and cliodynamics journal.
>>17414267I completed this entire book the other day. Basic overview m>presocraticsPrimitive and backwards attempts at philosophy. He disregards them as substantial philosophers wholesale. >SocratesFirst true philosopher who tied ethics to physics creating metaphysics.>PlatoInvented dialectics and politics. >Neoplatonists and other assorted post PlatonistsThese all vary in quality but generally they all have the same goal of attaining pleasure in the individual even if their beliefs on spirit and physics are contradictory (Epicureans and stoics for example are very similar outside of the physical beliefs on reality).
>>17417876Based high-IQ anon
>>17418020That post is like the most general overview of the book possible. I suggest reading it for yourself because he really goes far more in depth than that. I was impressed with how he would know the exact minutiae offhand (these were lectures) of random obscure philosophers like Aristippus the hedonist.
>>17418049>I was impressed with howHistorical autists were a different breed, unironically.
Kino read
>>17416996It’s 2025 and the 2nd America civil war still hasn’t begun
is libgen finally kill?
>>17418431Try the .gs one desu.
I'm slowly going through the Cambridge History of China right now.
