Let's get another /his/ thread going. These are far too far and few between on this board. I'd rather see a daily /his/ thread than another fucking /sffg/ thread.What have you been reading lately? >Thread Question:What is the single most strange or obscure historical happening or event that you've ever read about?
This is what I'm currently reading. Apparently the Japanese have a little-known national monument in the form of a mound of earth that is filled with 300,000 buried, pickled ears and noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians.
>>25289965I'll be moving onto this after I finish the Imjin War book
>>25289959I'm writing a Historical Fiction.
>>25289982About what?
>>25289988https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev
>>25289997Neat. Good luck.
Currently reading this book on German PoWs in Northern Wales during WW1. Probably gonna try & do a back to back double book on Stalingrad, one by Beevor & the other is from the german perspective.I just couldn't get into the book on the invasion of Italy, i'll try & finish it by the end of the year.
Threads dead, Zed
>>25289959looking to read something about the industrial revolution sometime. throw a ton of recs at me.
Mesoamerican history nerd here, as usual I'll shill "When Montezuma Met Cortes"It's a fascinating historiography and comparison of different accounts of the Cortes expedition/the fall of the Aztec, examining what the biases of each account is and how different tellings contradict one another, 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 of both various Spanish and Aztec historical figures: It's one of the better books I've seen that 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 that of the (more commonly covered) Spanish officials. 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/int/thread/220614413/#220624574 and desuarchive.org/k/thread/64935126/#64961571 and desuarchive.org/k/thread/64434397/#64469714 + the other posts I link to within that /k/ post and the two posts of mine directly preceding that oneI 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 on Mesoamerican stuff let me know >>25289965>>25289980I was reading about this a bit recently, as I understand it the ritual collection of severed body parts was already a practice in a small scale but Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea scaled the practice way up
Why don't you just post on /his/?
>>25292133Are you DJ Peach Cobbler? Be honest.
>>25292136Because /his/ is solely for the purposes of Catholic/Protestant shitflinging.
>>25292141Grim. I made a /pol/ version of this thread if you're interested.
>>25292137No, but me and my friend group helped him with his Aztec trilogyIf you look in the comment section of each video, there's one by MajoraZ, who was the main one of us involved in that, his comments on each video goes into more of the information that got cut from the videos, corrections, and the Mesoamerican political dynamics involved. The comment is pinned on the 1st and 3rd video, on the 2nd you'll have to scroll down to find it. Keep also in mind that the comments are alsomade to be read sequentially in succession, not just stand alone as an addendum to each video
>>25292154Link it, I can't find it on the catalog there
>>25292162Sure thing boss: >>25292150
>>25292156Kek. I had a feeling. You are similarly obsessed, that's cool though. I enjoy me some DJ Peach Cobbler.
>>25292169If you see anything about Mesoamerica online that's not stupid misinformed bullshit, i'd say there's a solid 30% chance that we have our fingers in it somehow
>>25292172You only provide stupid misinformed bullshit though.
>>25292177Feel free to point out things I've said you think are wrong, and I will be happy to provide clarifications and sources, or admit I fucked upBut people rarely challenge me on specific points (I'd say it happens only a few times a year), and most of the time they do I am able to provide sources to back up what I said and they never respond or deflect. The rare times somebody has pushed me on points and it turned out I was mistaken, though, I did admit it and subsequently changed how I worded or presented that information to be accurate. The example that sticks out to my mind is me posting about how the Mexica in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had the earliest public schooling system in history, and when I was challenged on that, it turned out the information on this was a bit conflicted (some sources assert attendance wasn't mandatory/only certain families sent their children to attend, and/or that girls didn't go, in contrast to other sources which asserted universal attendance for both boys and girls), and depending on how you define "universal public schooling", then some Eurasian societies might qualify which existed earlier. After that, any time I brought that trivia up, I was careful to add caveats that it depends on the sources you use and how you defined it
>>25292203Your sources are flawed; trite revisionist.
Wasted double dubs
>>25292211Which sources?
>>25293232OP here, I finished the Conquest of New Spain just last month actually, lmao.
Wow is this good. The late republic is my favorite historical setting, as cliche as that is and man does this do it justice. Looking at the authors bibliography and it's actually kind of staggering the range of periods he's worked on because this is unbelievably well researched and detailed. He also wrote a book by Agrippa that I'm dying to read since the Augustus/Agrippa dynamic and the idea of a man competent enough to be the ruler of the world himself being content with being number 2 all his life is endlessly fascinating to me. I can't decide if I want to continue with the second book in the Cicero trilogy or pause and read Agrippa first. Maybe I'll just read them in parallel.
>>25294306Oh wait, Agrippa isn't out yet. Guess that settles it for me.
>>25289959Does anyone know a good book on the grand strategy of the Napoleonic Wars?
>>25294351Clauswitz On War
>>25293232i like when he mentioned the guys falling in the water and drowning because of the weight of the gold they were hauling off when they were escaping the city. doesn't get more poetic than that also when he mentioned the natives had tranny prostitutes lmao
>>25293232It's a wild ride. Myself, being extremely racist by default, I went into it prejudiced against Aztecs, and closed it despising conquistadors. I even read that bishop Diaz wouldn't stop bitching about, Bartolomé de las Casas, shit is brutal.The Indians did have it coming in Cholula though.
>>25293232This one left me with a real itch for memoirs from such exotic and hostile experiences. i feel like it probably doesn't get any better than the Aztecs though, so gruesome and warlike, but also such a grandiose and spectacular culture, plus the sheer mystery and adventure of being in a completely unknown land and finding this developed and exotic and warlike civillizationif any has any recommendations for more i would welcome them >>25294516im only slightly racist these days, and i certainly lean more towards Bartolomé de las Casas' perspective as i think its the ideal christian one, but personally i walked away from Diaz more or less feeling like just watched two ruthless war-like nations going at it with no clear "bad guy" to hatethough i thought it was kind of wholesome when the natives volunteered and converted to Christianity and you had the native woman acting as their overtly loyal interpreter who was pretty much all in on becoming a christianhonestly i really dont know what to make of it all
>>25294481I mean other than that
>>25292133What do you think of Diego de Landa or John L. Stephens? For Maya I'm guessing you're going to add Michael Coe's books.
>>25295068Napoleon on the art of war then.
>>25295256Something more up to date. But ill look.
>>25289959Could someone please recommend a history on 18th century Britain? I plan on reading a bunch of 18th century English literature this summer and I am looking for some historical context to supplement that reading with. Currently considering pic related or The Oxford History of the British Empire Vol. 2.
>>25294351The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
Anyone have any good books on the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05?
>>25295822Try Human Bullets if you're looking for a firsthand account.
>>25289959TQ: October 13th, 1601. Tycho Brahe is an astronomer that also happened to have his nose cut off (different story). The thing is he died in a rather embarrassing way that I still can't believe is real. For some reason, it was common practice at the time to not excuse yourself from the dining room table before the host finished their meal first. Problem was that Brahe needed to pee the whole time and even tried to drink more as a way to try and ignore that desire. He was later described as unable to urinated by Johannes Kepler. He'd later time because on October 24th, likely due to his body having not flushed out toxins from his body. He did write an epithet for himself though. >"He lived like a safe and died like a fool."Source. Joke book my family got me for my birthday called Bad Days in History by Michael Farquhar.
Thoughts on Runciman’s history of the crusades?
Fascinating time analysis of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Custer, Reno, Benteen, Shitting Bull. It's all here.
>>25296537How is this one in comparison?
>>25296500I've heard varying reports. Some say its great some say it's shit.
>>25296390>Bad Days in History by Michael FarquhI wishlisted this and its sequel
>>25289959Whats a good biography of Prester John or the Ethiopian Christian kingdom in the middle ages?
>>25296714Robert Silverberg unless you can afford/pirate Keagan Brewer.
>>25296500It's an absolute classic on the subject you should read it but "modern historians" criticize him for different reasons, including bias and inventing some parts to reinforce his biased writing. Other classic writer on the crusade is René Grousset if you can read french.
Any recommendations on anything on ancient greece or the hellenic world? Anything from Pericles to ptolemeic egypt
>>25296500>RuncimanAbsolutely read it. It's literally only being criticized by the retard revisionists - on both sides. The crusades are one of the most fascinating stories in history and Runciman just tells it like it is. Don't expect a chud fest though, it is far from it.
>>25296865The landmark Thucydides and landmark Arrian
>>25296868What are some other accounts?
>>25289959thoughts on this book here? Graeber + Wengrow are being praised as revolutionary historians (archeologists, whatever) in my circle and though I haven't read it, I get the feeling they're just revisionists fucks who just want to go against the established narrative. Any thoughts? I would also appreciate links to thoughtful critiques (written or video-form).
>>25296500>RuncimanThis dude's father was a British politician who signed a treaty with Argentina in the 1930s, known as the Roca-Runciman Treaty, an economical treaty that fucked argentina over to benefit british exporters. We study it in school, it's cited as one of the main causal events in the leadup to Argentina's first military coup in the 1930s. As an argie, I just thought it was funny to see that name come up.
>>25297156Forgot the book
>>25297173>A New History of Humanity Redflag
>>25297156>>25297173It's pozzed and gay. It gets basic facts wrong and tries to spin it as "foreigners taught Europe equality, Europe was never self-critical or valued equality" which is the most retarded take possible if you know anything about christian ethics or enlightenment philosophy.
>>25297171If it fucked Argentina over then why did Argentina sign it?
>>25297235>>25297293NTA but I'm gonna read it for myself and form my own opinions on it
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>>25297296>If it fucked Argentina over then why did Argentina sign it?how old are you? It fucked over the majority of the people and industries. It benefited a few corrupt politicians and some powerful agents behind the curtains.
>>25297317That doesn't explain shit
>>25297313This looks pretty good, thanks! Can anyone vouch for it or the author?
>>25297317>>If it fucked Argentina over then why did Argentina sign it?>if war is bad then why do people go to war?
