What was the last history book you read and how was it?
It was a fun and to the point, quick read. I enjoyed it.
>>18421251>Gibbon
>>18421251I really hope you're reading this for historiographic reasons instead of actual historical reasons.
>>18421251>What was the last history book you read and how was it?I haven't finished it yet but it's very interesting and the guy's theories make sense.
>>18421251I read these, I still love them despite all the modern seethe. I'm about to finish volume 1 of Will Durant. I've never read a history written as beautiful as this and I look forward to continuing the series.
>>18421758Guy was refuted as a joke several timee
>>18421426you don't read works by monkeys?
>>18421819>refuted/his/ has a simplistic and very childlike view of history, where if someone disagrees with a theory, it's somehow automatically "refuted" or "debunked" which is nonsense.
>>18423172But is not even a theory rather a LotR tier fanficNeanderthal weren't orc like creatures wtf
>>18421251See image for the book. The story it tells:> just before the War of 1812, Jefferson imposed a series of embargos with the UK and Canada> Vermont had no real roads leading in and out of it, their only trade was by river and Lake Champlain to Quebec> residents were basically in a choice between violating the embargo and starving> A LOT of smugglers pop up, including the crew of a ship called the "Black Snake"> the feds sent in the army/officials to try to stop them> the crew fires on the federal officers killing at least one> the murderers, and a few of the townfolk who egged them on and provided them the weapons are charged with TreasonIt was a bit thick, written by a former prosecutor. I read it because I had a connection to one of the smugglers in the story, who later moved to Michigan and had a part in the founding of two early villages.
Currently reading picrel. I'm finding it interesting. It's been good so far at keeping stuff brief (some chapters are 2 pages long) and an appropriate level of detail. Dunno how accurate the book is though.I'm on the section about feudalism. One point it raises is how landlords then had military obligations, whereas now they have no obligations. I'll keep this in mind in future examinations of how good medieval society was.Also the Commons was a lot more structured than the FFA I assumed it was. The farming land is divided up into 20m x 220m, 1acre strips (apparently the amount that could be ploughed in one day with ox). Each man/household has a strip or two (they need to memorise which strip they own). The community do the ploughing, sowing, harvesting at the same times. Together the village would agree on what plants to grow.Also the book attributes the upgrade from 2 crop rotation (crop, fallow) to 3 crop rotation (crop, crop, fallow) to a better horse harness that allowed horses, who were stronger and faster than oxen, to pull a plough without strangling themselves.
Finished yesterday. Changes everything
>>18423837I'm glad to hear joining the US didn't stop Vermonters from being incredibly basedmight pick this up, the war of 1812 really did a number on New England
