Share your favorite history books, what you're currently reading, etc.
>>25015193José María Rosa, El cóndor ciego>A detailed study on the death of Lavalle (Argentine unitarian general). Through a thorough comparison of contemporary reports and an attempt at understanding Lavalle's psychology at the time by surveying his letters, he challenges the traditional version of his death and concludes that he commited suicide. Now I'm reading Los caudillos, by Félix Luna. An interesting defence of the "anarchist" Artigas.
>>25015193>childhood friend of Bill MaherPass.
>>25015193New recs for 2026>Your favorite American Revolution/Founding Father book>Your favorite American Civil War book
>>25015193reading this (I was the anon who started the thread) but I also want to read "Religion And The Decline Of Magic" by Keith Thomas soon after. I'm wondering if there's any good books which do a side by side comparison of the English, French and Russian Revolutions?
>>25017809and don't recommend Brinton, his shit is out of print.
>>25017809>(I was the anon who started the thread)No you weren't :)
>>25017854Bepis
Reading this right now. It's pretty damn good, I get why it won the Pulitzer.
About to start pic related. What am I in for?
Bump
>>25019693Oh nice. I'm going to look for it.
>>25015193This came out last year. Is it worth reading?
>>25015193Currently reading The Little Ice Age, who knew climate was so consequential to society
Currently reading The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler. I guess the central thesis of Ashkenazi Jews actually being descended from the Khazars, who were Turkic nomads before founding a kingdom/empire and converting to Rabbinic Judaism (and thus not "true" Semetic Jews) has been debunked by genetic studies. For me, it's just a primer on the Khazars since I didn't know much about that. Currently reading about the Khazar Correspondence with the Jews of Cordoba. Before this, I read Musui's Story. An autobiography of an unimportant and unemployed samurai in the first half of the nineteenth century. Incidentally historical given the rarity of the subject matter, but he's mostly just talking about who owed him money.
>>25020561Yeah, it's great.
I recently read Peasants into Frenchmen. It was fascinating, I like books with a lot of anecdotes. But I don't know whether they were accurate and I can't figure out how to verify them. I'd probably have to look in the French archives. There is a lot of stuff like specific large peasant revolts that doesn't seem to be spoken about anywhere else. The book does seem to have a good reputation, so maybe I'm being an idiot.One of the most enjoyable books I've ever read is Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite by Kantorowicz. Most of his anecdotes were easier to verify but I haven't gotten around to looking up all of them. I know people distrust the book because Kantorowicz was in the George Circle.
Mesoamerican history nerd here, as usual I'll shill "When Montezuma Met Cortes"It's a fascinating historiography and comparison of different accounts (+ their various biases and contradictions) of their meeting and the Cortes expedition/the Fall of the Aztec in general, and how they have been retold and distorted over time and leveraged for different ideological/national interestsPlus, it gets into a lot of the personal as well as political background on both various Spanish and Aztec historical figures: It's one of the better books I've seen to tackle the political dynamics and motives of other Mesoamerican kings and officials like like Xicomecoatl, Ixtlilxochitl II, Xicotencatl II, etc, which is important as very few sources do this despite the fact their actions and motives played as big a part of how events played out as the (more commonly covered) Spanish officials did. This is something I get into myself (including some observations even restall doesn't get into, tho moreso in even longer posts not linked here that me/friends have posted on other sites) here: pastebin.com/h18M28BR and arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/640670498/#640679139 and desuarchive.org/his/thread/16781148/#16781964 and desuarchive.org/k/thread/64434397/#64469714 + the other posts in that one I link and the two directly preceding itI don't agree with absolutely every conclusion Restall makes but it and his prior work "7 Myths of the Spanish Conquest", are pretty much mandatory reading for a decent understanding of the topic just to get an idea of how the different primary sources conflict with each other and skew detailsAlso pic related is WIP reading chart me and some friends are working on. I'll probably end up removing Broken Spears from the Conquest section for Collision of Worlds and/or maybe add a few books on the conquests of West Mexico and the Maya regions since currently this is very Central Mexico/Aztec focused, when in reality there were centuries of campaigns and expeditions against Mesoamerican states in other areas: The last Maya kingdoms didn't fall to 1697If people want more suggestions let me know>>25012032I haven't read this yet but I am cautious of pretty much any book on the Cortes expedition that's not written by a Mesoamericanist: They basically all ignore or misunderstand the political context and dynamics on the native side of things and understate the role those had in how things played out, the different kings and politicians involved, etc, and often also include myths and misconceptions.At the very least I'd say you should absolutely read Restall's two books in addition to anything else on the Conquest
>>25018551Might give this a read. Do you guys know any other good books about glowie shenanigans?
>>25015193Currently reading this, I'm really enjoying it so far. It's interesting reading about this war from the Chechen side for once, since most accounts come either from Russians or from foreign journalists.
>>25022446Any more like picrel that deal with peasant revolts? I have the one in my pic
>>25022764If you don't mind a doorstopper here's an entire history of glowie shenanigans from Moses to the present day.
>>25020622I have this. Might read it this year.
>>25021226You into microhistory at all?
>>25023199Sure, in theory. I have that cheese and worm book but haven't read it yet.
>>25023598That one is a bit expensive for me. I read his other book "The Night Battles"
>>25016559Based Jose Maria Rosa enjoyer. > Te recomiendo leer a Manuel Galvez,sobre todo "Vida de Sarmiento", te vas a cagar de risa de como inflaron a ese sanjuaniano masón. El autor es un genio, un revisionista de la san puta de la corriente de Rosa.
>>25024286Siempre se agradece una recomendación. Un abrazo.
>>25023021Miriam Lanskoy (who actually writes the book) is a director of NED, handling the USAID money with a clear political aim. One can imagine what sort of "democracy" would people like Akhmadov build in Chechnya if they won.
The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollwayhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57803810-the-last-viking
Pretty interesting to read a first person account of this kind of expedition. Something striking is how they understood pretty much nothing.
>>25022762cool shit & saved, thanks for sharing
>>25026278>Something striking is how they understood pretty much nothing.What do you mean by that? They had no idea about what they would encounter?
Any must read alongside Saint aQugustine City of God or after it?
>>25023190Sorry, I forgot about this thread. I thought that "The Moral Economy of the Peasant" by James C. Scott was interesting. I haven't read a lot about this topic otherwise. How is the one in your pic? I've been meaning to read about the German Peasants' War.
>>25028962I have yet to read it, I have a huge backlog.
>>25027661Nomos Of The Earth but its not technically history
>>25027661The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire>>25028966Also true, this is an amazing book and anyone will learn a lot of history from itAlso on the topic of peasants, does anyone have a favorite book about the Hussites?
Any WW2 book recs that aren't filled with biased Jew propaganda?
>>25030047If you're actively looking for it you'll find it behind every page you havent turned yet
>>25015193So far so good I guess
>>25030081He's right. Remnick is notoriously terrible.
>>25020561Sounds like your usual liberal fuck America shit:With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today. In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the “paleo-con” right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk” took new and ever-wilder forms. In the 1992 campaign, Pat Buchanan's and Ross Perot’s insurgent populist bids upended the political establishment, all while Americans struggled through recession, alarm about racial and social change, the specter of a new power in Asia, and the end of Cold War–era political norms. Conspiracy theories surged, and intellectuals and activists strove to understand the “Middle American Radicals” whose alienation fueled new causes. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton appeared to forge a new, vital center, though it would not hold for long. In a rollicking, eye-opening book, Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of a new and more turbulent America.
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The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific by William Craig>recounts the compelling story of the Japanese defeat during the last three years of World War II, from Japanese plans to regain control of the war at sea to the devastating bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasakihttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26869906-the-fall-of-japanhttps://www.amazon.com/Fall-Japan-Final-Weeks-Pacific-ebook/dp/B013S434TI
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty by William Hogeland>In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania, local gangs of insurgents with blackened faces began to attack federal officials, beating and torturing the tax collectors who attempted to collect the first federal tax ever laid on an American product—whiskey. To the hard-bitten people of the depressed and violent West, the whiskey tax paralyzed their rural economies, putting money in the coffers of already wealthy creditors and industrialists. To Alexander Hamilton, the tax was the key to industrial growth. To President Washington, it was the catalyst for the first-ever deployment of a federal army, a military action that would suppress an insurgency against the American government.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382849.The_Whiskey_Rebellion
>>25016559>Los caudillos, by Félix Luna.It looks like a somewhat revisionist book. But it reminds me of this essay I read about 'folk caudillos', which revised narratives regarding a few Caudillos often derided in traditional Liberal accounts. Rosas is mentioned obviously, but also Paez, and most of the essay is actually about the dictator of Guatemala from 1844 to 1865. It's contained on a sort of antology book, but it's not really a history book, just has some history essays within it. Another one is about Güemes and his dependency to the prominent landholding families of Tucuman.
>>25015193does anyone have recs for a book on the history of the Nation of Islam? Especially on its founding, about Wallace Fard Muhammad, as well as their theology
>>25015193there's a board for this>>25030128read dwyer's two books instead
>>25015193history books that aren't woke?
>>25015193>FDR's completely Soviet - and British - agent infested administration needed his last election 'fortified'>Wendyl Willkie: AstroTurf plant, toured the USSR, fake neutrality candidate, shunted into the Republican Primaryresulting in ...
>>25034179>... Nuclear Proliferation>beside useful idiot Oppenheimer perjurying himself to cover for a caught asset in The Manhattan Project (one of many)>the British send this Soviet agent without vetting straight into Los Alamos
>>25034170What time period or subject?
>>25015193Currently reading picrel.Anyone have any recommendations on the following subjects:- Latin-American urban guerillas.- Africa during the cold war.- Chinese republican warlord era.- Meiji restoration - Japanese empire.- Old Swiss Confederation.
>>25030047David Irving, Thomas Dalton
>>25030692Well its really the only book on the subject so far that goes into great detail. Its too soon to tell because the history is still pretty fresh. Unless you have better recommendations to which I'm all ears.
>>25034773NTA but I think a book on extropianism and 1990s silicon valley/tech/internet culture would probably nicely round out that one. Unfortunately, I am not sure it exists. It likely doesn't. If it does it's written by rationalists.The best I've been able to find a few papers and such, not quite the same thing.
>>25034604>Latin-American urban guerillasLatin American Guerrilla Movements: Origins, Evolution, Outcomes>The book is divided in four thematic parts after two opening chapters that analyze the tradition of military involvement in Latin American politics and the parallel tradition of insurgency and coup effort against dictatorship. The first two parts examine active guerrilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s with case studies including Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Part 3 is dedicated to the Central American Civil Wars of the 1980s and 1990s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Part 4 examines specific guerrilla movements which require special attention. Chapters include Colombia’s complicated guerrilla scenery; the rivalling Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrillas in Peru; small guerrilla movements in Mexico which were never completely documented; and transnational guerrilla operations in the Southern Cone. The concluding chapter presents a balance of the entire Latin American guerrilla at present.
>>25034604>Africa during the cold war.Pic rel covers most of the period, though it's a more general political history, not so much focus on covert ops and such
>>25034604>Africa during the cold war.Can't go wrong with Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
>>25035350Nta but saved. Thank you.>>25035386It's a shame the Copyright hyenas took it down from Internet Archive. It was a great book.
>>25035350I was mostly interested in specific urban guerrillas like the Tupamaros, the ALN and the Liga Comunista 23 de septiembre, but your description of the book really intrigues me, thank you, anon.>>25035369It's ok, I really can't say that I know much of African post-colonialist history apart from Northern Africa. I hope this can be a proper introduction to the subject.>>25035386From a quick google search and overview this looks more like what I was looking for, thank you, anon, have a nice day.
>>25034604Maybe I already recc'd this to you but have this.
>>25034526any
>>25015193>share your favourite history booksI still look back really fondly on reading The Nazi Seizure of Power by someone-or-other
This thread alone is way more valuable than everything every posted by /his/.
>>25036614Great choice
>>25034101Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but you should check out Controversies over Islamic Origins by Mun'im Sirry.
>>25035462It's on Anna's.
Best Presidential biography?
For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution―bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view.>By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England’s revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture, and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries of 1688–1689.>James II developed a modernization program that emphasized centralized control, repression of dissidents, and territorial empire. The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The postrevolutionary English state emphasized its ideological break with the past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution―not the French Revolution―the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book reenvisions the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general, the causes and consequences of commercialization, the nature of liberalism, and ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself.
>>25015193I am reading a history book of my country. It's more interesting than I thought
>>25036773And I haven't even posted the regular recs yet
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>>25039078this was the crippled guy who enjoyed beating his wife?
>>25027567This one is relatively understandable. But for example one of their obsessions was finding Christians, and they convinced themselves of ridiculous stuff, like that a Hindu temple was a long lost church.Another one that's easier with hindsight, but at some point they arrive near an African city, the local king send them various gift including oranges, then one page later the author notes "thanks to the pure air of this place, all our ill [of scurvy] men were healed".They weren't exactly great diplomats, even if the locals were often assholes too.
>>25022762You should mention that Diaz's work is of literary merit and stands as one of the great historical campaign accounts alongside Xenophon's Anabais.
>>25039805The account of his second voyage is good fun when they start massacring everyone along the Malabar coast. Quite amazing what sheer brutalism and a small technological edge can accomplish. A real agent of Christian civilisation, goes full Colonel Kurtz before stepping a foot off his boat.
>>25034604This is good on the experience of the common troops and populace. It's not a general history, but would greatly compliment one. Helps to understand the character of the age and the participants, as well as the historical personalities that grew out of it: Mao, Chiang etc.
>>25015193I just finished reading this a few days ago since I was curious about the leadup to Richard III/the Tudors and don't really know much English history pre-17th century. Overall pretty fascinating read and I thought she did a good job in visualizing life in England and the causes leading up to the conflict in addition to humanizing the kings of the era. I got fairly confused throughout by the sheer amount of names, often repeats in addition to what felt like a slog of day by day events, e.g. king raised x amount of men and marched to city y and repeat for 200 pages, though perhaps that's a good allegory for how the war itself saw very few pitched battles with under a year total in direct conflict over the decades that the war lasted.
>>25039815I mean, I have Diaz listed, but I'm into Mesoamerica as a topic of historical study, less so as works of narrative prose in their own right, so emphasizing that aspect is kind of out of scope.In fact, the suggested translations listed for Diaz and Cortes are actively LESS flowery and cool sounding in how they are translated then some older translations, and I tend to prefer those older translations when compiling quotes like pic related. But the translations listed are suggested due to having less errors or including extra content since that's more important from a historical study perspective.Ironically though the Maudslay unabridged translation of Diaz is actually missing a few lines, which is frustrating.
>>25036627NTA but thanks to you I had it gifted to me by a friend. its now on my e-reader.
>>25015193anyone into "counterfactual" history?
>>25015193Reading this and it is berry good :)
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Picrel is awesome. It's got a nice, pretty thorough introduction by the editor and it's mainly comprised of first-hand sources of the Black Death from 1348-1351. What's especially striking is that people in Europe were not totally insulated; they had some idea of what was going on in other countries, esp. the clergy & nobility, but the fact that people could anticipate the plague's arrival is striking.>>25030128All the frog names filtered me.>>25030708I've had this in my Amazon wishlist for literal years. Is it pro-German?>>25034101I don't think there's much to it. There are a lot of assorted books on various cults that address the NOI.>>25036542Haven't read this but I have read Surprise, Kill, Vanish & Nuclear War: A Scenario. Is it as good as those?>>25036548>The Untold Story of the War On TerrorMight as well read Ghost Wars then, or no?>>25036627This looks interesting. I want to start reading more stuffs about fucked up shit in Africa.>>25040513Seems like a waste of time.
>>25040842>a history of the human communityFucking chud is implying only westoids are human
>>25039869Thank you very much, anon, I didn't want to miss out on the other subjects but early republican China is my biggest interest rn. May every God bless you.
>>25040842>>25040909I skimmed the mentions of the Aztec and Americas in this and it's pretty oudated with a lot of incorrect information, to say nothing of how it's mentioned mostly in passing despite contact, conflict, and colonization between Prehispanic Civilizations and the Spanish is arguably the single most critical aspect of the rise of the West to begin withIf you're reading this I'd really also read Restall's work in >>25022762
>>25041094Can i ask what are some of your thoughts on Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto?
>>25041142For what it's trying to do as a film, it's good, but "what it's trying to do" is historically dogshit.People get caught up on stuff like the architecture not being quite right (Yes, some of the architecture is in a more Classic period style but there's also less anachronistic Postclassic Puuc accenting) or accuse of it mixing up the Aztec and Maya (the level of sadism in the film is way over the top even for the Mexica of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan), but that's missing the forest for the treesThe real issue is how it's visually gross (making things look as primitive and poorly made as possible, see pic, though the painted buildings and the king and high priest's outfit is okay) and fundamentally presents Maya society as utterly dysfunctional and both whitewashes and demonizes them at once: You have the hippie noble-savage anarcho-primitivist village that doesn't even farm and has never heard of big cities on one extreme, and a hedonistic dilapidated hellscape of sadism in the large cityI get what Gibson is trying to do, showing a society in a state of decay and collapse, but it reduce Maya civilization to hamfistingThere's the vestige of a compelling political drama where the politicians and priests of a city on the verge of collapse is having to play up the scale of sacrifices and ceremonies and monument construction to please the gods as some people can tell it's just accelerating the stress and pressure and quickening things falling apart (though that's more a Classic Maya collapse thing, not a Postclassic Maya decline thing: The movie does seem to depict features of the Classic collapse despite the explicit Postclassic setting, though it doesn't outright get the timeline wrong), but Gibson just uses that as an implied backdrop without exploring it, and, again doesn't depict a city with actual politics or a functioning society at allAlso, it cannot be overstated how influential the film is in informing other depictions of Mesoamerica in pop culture, and informing popular imagination and understanding of Mesoamerica, by which of course I mean it's responsible for perpetuating all sorts of misunderstandings and visual stereotypes: The average person's understanding of Mesoamerica is so terribly ignorant that they really do go into Apocalypto without any context to tell them it's not representative of reality. People accuse Gibson of racism, and that's probably unfair, but the film absolutely gives bad faith and ignorant people tons of ammo to post nonsense about Mesoamerican cultures and history: Sacrifice, war, classism, etc were all things that happened in Mesoamerica, but the movie's level of dystopia would be utterly comical, like a cartoon depiction of hell, if not for the fact so many people take it seriously.See also my 11+ post long infodump in this thread: archived.moe/tv/thread/204623679/#204637541, I also have a big image collage that goes into all of this but it's 2big for 4chan
>>25041194>>25041142bumping the thread with the part 2 image of this collageNeither of these are the giant Apocalypto collage I mentioned, either
>>25037164Truman
>>25015193I might read picrel since I want to delve into economic history.
>>25041094Yeah but I heard his book the Pursuit Of Power is good.
>>25040905Eh it is what it is..speaking of time, anything that talks about time as a concept like picrel or Koselleck's works would be nice
If this makes you seethe, suggest another Roman history for me to read. I’m on a Roman binge and any recs are appreciated.
>>25044106Read Emperor of Rome instead if you really want to read Beard.
>>25044106The final pagan Generation by Edward J. Watts, it's main focus is romes transition from paganism to christanity, but it also offers a pretty interesting look into the actual workings of the imperial administration and how enforcement of imperial policy was heavily shaped through the influence networks that recommended/appointed pronvincial officials.
>>25040905I put down pic related because far too much of it was about the poor discriminated against jews and the evils of antisemitism, and far too little of it was actually about the plague.
>>25042652Thoughts on Arthur Schleisinger Jr.'s three volume biography of FDR?
>>25037164The Passage of Power
>>25044631>>25044590Much Obliged.
>>25022446isn't The Kings Two Bodies well revered, though?
>>25040905It's a pretty good book. Though It's a bit biased towards Katanga and the author is a journalist not a historian. But it has a lot of first hand testimony. It's lovely.
This is excellent on Japan in the aftermarth of WW2 and the American occupation. The how, why, and what of their transformation into modern Japan.
Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer>Born on France's Atlantic coast, Champlain grew to manhood in a country riven by religious warfare. The historical record is unclear on whether Champlain was baptized Protestant or Catholic, but he fought in France's religious wars for the man who would become Henri IV, one of France's greatest kings, and like Henri, he was religiously tolerant in an age of murderous sectarianism. Champlain was also a brilliant navigator. He went to sea as a boy and over time acquired the skills that allowed him to make twenty-seven Atlantic crossings without losing a ship.>But we remember Champlain mainly as a great explorer. On foot and by ship and canoe, he traveled through what are now six Canadian provinces and five American states. Over more than thirty years he founded, colonized, and administered French settlements in North America. Sailing frequently between France and Canada, he maneuvered through court intrigue in Paris and negotiated among more than a dozen Indian nations in North America to establish New France. Champlain had early support from Henri IV and later Louis XIII, but the Queen Regent Marie de Medici and Cardinal Richelieu opposed his efforts. Despite much resistance and many defeats, Champlain, by his astonishing dedication and stamina, finally established France's New World colony. He tried constantly to maintain peace among Indian nations that were sometimes at war with one another, but when he had to, he took up arms and forcefully imposed a new balance of power, proving himself a formidable strategist and warrior.>Throughout his three decades in North America, Champlain remained committed to a remarkable vision, a Grand Design for France's colony. He encouraged intermarriage among the French colonists and the natives, and he insisted on tolerance for Protestants. He was a visionary leader, especially when compared to his English and Spanish contemporaries—a man who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world of cruelty and violence.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4531763-champlain-s-dream
pretty solid volume on hitler leading up to world war ii
>>25015193General thoughts on Herbert Butterfield or Christopher Dawson?
Murica
>>25015193Good social histories of technology. Pertinent considering the rise of AI. Something that goes as far back as the high medieval period.
>>25050271meant to put a question mark at the end of the first sentence.
Gilgamesh
Science and Technology in World History>Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn’s bestselling book argues that technology as “applied science” emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would lead directly to new or improved technologies.>McClellan and Dorn identify two great scientific traditions: the useful sciences, which societies patronized from time immemorial, and the exploration of questions about nature itself, which the ancient Greeks originated. The authors examine scientific traditions that took root in China, India, and Central and South America, as well as in a series of Near Eastern empires in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. From this comparative perspective, McClellan and Dorn survey the rise of the West, the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, the Industrial Revolution, and the modern marriage of science and technology. They trace the development of world science and technology today while raising provocative questions about the sustainability of industrial civilization.>This new edition of Science and Technology in World History offers an enlarged thematic introduction and significantly extends its treatment of industrial civilization and the technological supersystem built on the modern electrical grid. The Internet and social media receive increased attention. Facts and figures have been thoroughly updated and the work includes a comprehensive Guide to Resources, incorporating the major published literature along with a vetted list of websites and Internet resources for students and lay readers.
>>25015193I'm reading Lenin's Tomb at the moment and finding it a little disappointing. It's very journalistic and sensationalist when I was hoping for a more sombre account of the Soviet collapse and attempted coup. I know that the anecdotes are meant to give an impression of life at the time but they come off as more than a little irrelevant and probably greatly exaggerated.
>>25044106Adrian Goldsworthy has some fantastic nonfiction books on Rome that are a little more focused than something you'd see from people like Beard or Holland. >Augustus: First Emperor of Rome>The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable conflict>Pax Romana: War, peace and conquest in the Roman WorldAnother one of my favourite Rome books is from Nigel Bagnall, who was a field officer in WW2 and writes very much from an operational and commanding perspective which is very unique in scholarship.>The Punic WarsI really like Keaveney's account of Sulla, who was obviously overshadowed by later figures but who coloured the entire late Republican period. It will give you a taste of the early lives of figures like Pompey and Caesar (and the later life of Marius).>Sulla: The Last Republican
I'm reading this. It's pretty engaging and I've learnt a few things, but he drifts into subjective (i.e. politicised) commentary in places, rather than an objective recounting of facts.Also, I understand that the US grew out of the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain, but it would've been interesting to learn about the history of the landmass now encompassed by the United States as much as the spread of the nation from the East Coast. By that I mean more information on Pre-Columbian cultures, Spanish Missions, Russian attempts to trade and settle everywhere from Alaska to California, and so on.
>>25050564thanks for the rec!
>>25051156I bought Pax Romana for Christmas. I tried reading Theodor Mommsen but it was pretty dry. gonna attempt it again later. is Goldsworthy less dry?
has anyone read this translation by james b. rives?
>>25025880i'm surprised there hasn't been a big hollywood epic about 1066. it's just such an amazing story that has everything going for it
>>25052448James Rives "updated" the Robert Graves translation and yes it is quite good.
>>25015193Finished picrel a few days ago, can strongly recommend it
>>25052526thank you
>>25037235> >By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological framewouldn't that defeat the purpose?
What I'm reading right now
looking for these:histories of Ethiopiahistories of Italian unificationhistories of the early middle ages/late antiquityhistories of Australia (not so much founding history but recent history)and a history of certain mathematical concepts, nothing like Morris Kline, already got him, want something more specialized.
>>25051156That Sulla book has been on my radar for a while. I should nab it soon before the price goes up.
>>25055179>and a history of certain mathematical concepts, nothing like Morris Kline, already got him, want something more specialized.Try:>The Main Stream of Mathematics - Edna Kramer.>The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics - Edna Kramer>Mathematics and Logic: Retrospect and Prospects - Mark Kac, Stanislaw Ulam>Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics – William Dunham>Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics - Jeremy Gray>Calculus: A Liberal Art (a.k.a. Historical Approach) - William McGowen Priestley>The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century - David SalsburgI guess the classics Jan Gullberg, Tobias Dantzig, Eric Temple Bell are too much like Morris Kline
>>25055480thanks but I could only find one of thoseon another note, what about some intellectual history that delves into philological territory?
>>25057458>thanks but I could only find one of thoseThe older ones are on archive.org>on another note, what about some intellectual history that delves into philological territory?Bod, Rens (2013), A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the PresentTurner, James (2014), Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
Suggestions for books on how the HRE functioned and its guilds? I recently read Birley's the Restless Emperor on Hadrian. It's very well researched, justifies all speculation into the movements and events they don't have direct records of and so full of WORDS NAMES WORDS NAMES that It's practically unreadable. Lots of times a name is mentioned once, and you're expected to know who it is already. A few comedic gems in there (Like the jews celebrating his initial ascension) but not much else. Great if you're an academic, I guess. A few interesting passages on the fall of Judea.
