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>>1482922
>ask for literature recommendations in here
What's a good book about the internal history of the HRE (aka not something that becomes "a history of the House of Habsburg" after the 15th century)?
I'm particularly interested in how the states were ruled, how they interacted between each others, and what differences were there between living in different parts of the empire.

>>1482922
For an intro to Rome, I always reccomend the History of Rome podcast. If you must have a book, then Mommsen's history would be great.

I myself am interested in some biographies of personages that have been overlooked because of Western-Eurocentrism. Fascinating stories of people like Mohammed bin Tughgluq or Stephen Dushan, that you never hear of unless you live in their countries. I would prefer biographies of kingz and shiet, but anyone would be fine, so long as their story is entertaining.

>>1482922
>BBC Books

Meh. There are far better. Anything Beard, Syme, Cameron or Goodman would be better.

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Picked this up the other day. Anyone read it? I reckon its probably on /his/ butthurt list books.

Im curious to what Frankopan will argue in it. At the very minimum im hoping it'll give me some nice east west trade examples. I'm open to the claim that it might 'spin world history on it's head', although i personally think that Chinese history has a greater claim than Persian/Arabic. But we'll see.

>>1483075
I gave it a quick flick through in Waterstones the other week. It seemed pretty sound, even if it glossed over quite a lot of stuff that might be considered peripheral to the topic, but would be useful contextually, e.g. what is going on in the Roman Empire at any given time at the start. Seems good though.

>>1483096
Agreed. It gets a 10/10 for Aesthetic book covers.

>>1482922
For some reason I wanna learn about socialist Albania. Preferably day to day shit.

A good documary would also be appreciated.

how do I into the persian empire?

This is my favorite book about the (end) of the Roman Empire.

http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2429

>>1483578
The Histories - Herodotus (Waterfield translation)

>>1482945
HRE by Peter Wilson, it's a little bizarre in that it's split up by themes and only begins to explain the inner workings of the Empires bureaucracy (or lack of it) in the back third of the book. It has a shit ton of info though and pretty enjoyable.

>>1483017
>Beard

Is SPQR any good?

>>1483767
The Landmark Edition is fantastic and includes a lot of notes, maps, and appendices.

>>1483794
>SPQR

Not very "academic"

>>1483807
isn't Beard a leading academic in her field though? What would be a better book.

>>1483075
Aren't many saying he has some questionable views regarding how some things came to power and is downright dismissive of certain things? according to amazon and audible reviews anyway.

Any good books on the diadochi?

>>1482945
Pursuit of Glory goes in a little bit into the workings of the HRE bureaucracy (as well as the other main parts of Europe/Russia in that time frame) and is a really good book in general.

Anyway, what are some good books on the politics and such of the Gilded Age? Maybe some books about the west (especially settlement and development of places like the Dakotas, Wyoming, etc.) that don't go full on "IT WAS BAD MUH INJUNS".

>>1483848
She is, but the book is written for laymen.

What do you want? History of republic? Empire? Certain period?

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Highly controversial.

It's not a banned book per se, but it is ideologically so in the eyes of greater academia. In any case, the author makes a very strong case. As such, I wouldn't be surprised if subsequent posters immediately tried to discourage anon from reading it.

Is Rubicon a good book on Rome?

>>1484120
>Rubicon
it's good
remember it's pop-history

>>1484120
Not good enough for a true /his/torian, but for the average pleb yeah.

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I was hoping that someone on /his/ might be able to point me in the direction of a good book on Otto Von Bismarck

>>1484062
I'll probably just stick with SPQR for now as it'll be my first book on Rome but I'd like a good book about the crisis of the third century through the fall of rome.

Read the Alexiad. Medieval Rome was way more interesting than ancient Rome

>>1484054
honestly american history books in general are biased as fuck.

>>1483848
From reading reviews on Amazon the biggest problem (since it shows up in a lot of reviews) is that she spends more time telling you that we don't actually know things/that stuff is highly questionable/etc. than she does actually telling you about Roman history. One of the reviews mentions her talking about Marius' reforms, Sulla's purges but never talking about them being on opposite sides of a civil war.

So maybe she's knowledgable but apparently she's a terrible writer who can't properly convey that knowledge either.

>>1484707
I know, that's why it's so hard to find anything. It's why Empire of Liberty is the best overview book I've read since it's a fairly neutral look at the time period it covers and it's able to mention shitty things that happened (like treatment of injuns) but not in a moralizing manner (i.e. when he talks about the slaughter the injuns performed on some soldiers during a small war; like mutilating them and then leaving them around as a message).

I can't read What Hath God Wrought? because it's a lot of screaming about how Andrew Jackson was an evil man, how JQA was a saint and how everything would've been better if the Whigs were in charge. I mean I don't even like Jackson but I found it to be too much. It just seems that American history, moreso than European history even, is just a tool for the left and the right to scream about how much American sucks vs. how it's the greatest nation God Almighty ever conceived with no middle ground.

Is Will Durant's the story of civilization good?

>>1484875
there's nothing worse than whig fanboys.

>"making America a coast to coast nation was a terrible idea!"

>>1484379
Then what's the best book on Caesar?

>>1483910
Nothing?

>>1484667
Adrian Goldsworthy has an excellent book on exactly that subject.

>>1484104

Is Hacking, like, the only one allowed to write the intros to non-foundationalist and other 'post-modern' philosophy of science lit?

>>1485406
Once again, Adrian Goldsworthy has an outstanding bio of Julius Caesar.

But the 19th century writer Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote a great military bio.

>>1486264
>>1484104

To add, if anyone has any other recos on the philosophy of history and/or books on methodology I'd love to have 'em.

Any recommendations for learning about Roman culture, culture such as the general doings of the population?

Is there anything about the Reconquista as a whole? Not just about a single country and preferably detailed regarding important people of the time.

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>>1487180
Yes, this is a great book for that sort of thing

Also watch HBO's "Rome" production, it gives a great look at the daily activities and beliefs of plebs, patricians and criminals

>>1487315
Thank you very much, sounds exactly like what I was looking for.

>>1486258
Thanks anon

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Is this book worth reading?

>>1487388
I never read your book, but on the same subject A History of Venice by JJ Norwich is pretty top tier.

>>1487388
I have it and I love it. It's pop history but Crowley's a really good, engaging writer and the book's not overly long. I'd recommend reading it in conjunction with John Julius Norwich's Venice book as well as, IMO, they work as companion pieces.

Norwich's book focuses largely on the city itself and its dealings on the Italian Peninsula and not much attention is paid to its overseas territory. Crowley's book focuses mainly on the overseas territories and naval conflicts so you get a lot on the rebellions in Crete, Venice's dealings in the Crimea/around the Black Sea, etc. that you don't get in Norwich's book. The book stops around the early 1500s so no Lepanto but Crowley's other book, Empires of the Sea, covers Lepanto as well as the Siege of Malta.

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>>1487315
>mfw someone finally posts real history books on /his/

>>1487498
Thanks, mate. I went out and bought it. I'm really enjoying it so far.

>>1482922
for Rome you should always start with Mommsen.

>>1483578
what Persian empire do you mean?

>>1484493
I enjoyed his biography by Christoph Nonn but dunno if it's available in english,

I am desperately looking for a book about the early spanish conquest of the americas.
Can anybody help me out?

>>1488080
>for Rome you should always start with Mommsen.

Very outdated

>>1488080
Cortés, Hernán. Letters – available as Letters from Mexico translated by Anthony Pagden (1986) ISBN 0-300-09094-3

de Fuentes, Patricia, ed. The Conquistadors: First-Person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 1993

Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain – available as The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517-1521 ISBN 0-306-81319-X

León-Portilla, Miguel (Ed.) (1992) [1959]. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. Ángel María Garibay K. (Nahuatl-Spanish trans.), Lysander Kemp (Spanish-English trans.), Alberto Beltran (illus.) (Expanded and updated ed.). Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-5501-8.

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Anyone know some good books on the medieval French kingdom?

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>>1483848
>trusting women with history

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>>1487388
I just finished Crowley's "Empires of the Sea", which was a fun and fast read for a plebian like me. I'll read "City of Fortune" next, but what I'd really like is a pleb-tier pop history of the rise and fall of the mongolian empire. Any suggestions, anyone?

Looking for some books on post-independence latin american countries; More specifically, about Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela. Peferably in spanish and by someone from that country.

>>1484669
>Medieval Rome was way more interesting than ancient Rome

Medieval Rome was the papacy and the HRE

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Anyone got a good recommendation for the 30 Years War?

Catholic Genocide best three decades of my life.

Alternatively books on the Dutch colonial empire?

>>1484667
>>1486258
All of that guy's Rome books are fantastic reads.

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>>1482922
Byzaboo account of the 4th Crusade. The reason I loved it (apart from the fact that I'm a byzaboo) is that a large part of it are excerpts from the diaries/chronicles of people (from both sides) who actually fought in it.

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Got this today. Is it good, /his/?

>>1484893
are you fucking kidding, of course it is

>>1487388
Crowley's book on the fall of Constantinople is a fantastic read. Sure it might not be the most detailed, but it alternates between Byzantine and Ottoman viewpoints. Guy's a great, engaging writer but like the other anon said it's pretty pop tier (not that that's a bad thing)

>>1490465
>Anyone got a good recommendation for the 30 Years War?

Europe's Tragedy by Peter H Wilson, it's a door stopper though

>>1484493
I recommend "Bismarck and the German Empire" by Erich Eyck. It's written by a german born while Bismarck was still alive and shortly before the empire formed (author born in 1874 I think) and it's an alright biography, though a bit dry sometimes. I found an english translation on Amazon. Here's the link https://www.amazon.com/Bismarck-German-Empire-Erich-Eyck/dp/0393002357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1470018742&sr=8-1&keywords=bismarck+and+the+german+empire

>>1490534
for those like me who are just starting studying on their own, are pop history books like crowley's a good starting point?

>>1490575
Great place to start. Go with the pop history for broad overview and then start delving into certain aspects that you want to learn more about.

>>1488395
Bumping this

I was reading The Price of Glory Verdun by Alistair Horne and it was great, are there any good books on the First Battle of the Marne?

Are there any good books about industrialization? Specifically periods of massive industrialization, like Meiji Japan, or the USA after the ACW

>>1483807
SPQR is a history and analysis of the historicity of the Roman Republic through Empire, it claims nothing else, and does it's job very well.

If you want a Roman history book then go online and pick from one of the dozen iterations

How do I into Kant/Hegel? I'd like to know their basics before I read Nietzsche and Marx.

>>1492284
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant/

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/

Any good books on the city of Rome in the period between 550-1100? What it was like right after the collapse?

12 Ceasers

>>1490618
be more specific anon, the middle ages is a long ass period

Should i bother reading Altas Shrugged, or as it a meme read?

>>1488395
Jacques Le Goff

>>1492462
I'm looking more for a general history of the kingdom of France during the middle ages. Something that explains its origins with west Francia and that goes up to the end of the hundred years war. Or at least something similar.

>>1492656
>kingdom of France

France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc - Duby

>>1492470
Its a meme, but still worth reading just because of its influence

what is the best book on the Vietnam war?

>>1494107
https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-History-Stanley-Karnow/dp/0140265473

I believe this is the standard history

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How's this book and the series

gimmie a book that goes through all of the roman empire

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What's the Mommsen for ancient Greece?

Anything on the Habsburgs? Preferably chronicling their rise to power to their fall

any good books on the general history of China?

>>1482922
keeping this thread bumped. for those of you who haven't had you're requests responded to try these annotated bibliographies. I saw several which corresponded to the topics asked for on this thread.

http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2#

Caesar's Commentaries just came in the mail. How is it? I've heard that it's mostly Caesar writing about logistics.

I've been looking for some books on the reconquestia, any recommendations?

Anyone know any good books about the Phoenicians? Canaanites and the later inhabitants of Lebanon, not Carthaginians.

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>>1494819
I love it, but here are some Pro Tips on reading the Gallic Commentaries:
- Corn = a bushel of grain, not maize
- Treat it as propaganda pieces written to glorify the actions of Caesar as an individual and the legion as a whole (rather than the individual soldiers, beyond a few notable exceptions)
- It's handy to have a map available that lists the events.
-There are no magic potions
-Prepare to hear mainly about maintaining an army rather than set piece battle after battle
-1000 DAYS OF THANKSGIVING LMAO

>>1494839
>Prepare to hear mainly about maintaining an army
That's the bit I want. I can read about battles elsewhere, but i can only get first hand accounts of how Caesar got to those battles in this book.

I just recently read Embracing Defeat, a book about Post-war Japan. It does a pretty good job of illustrating a part of history that gets glossed over in most western history classes but explains a lot about Japan today.

>>1494819
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Caesar/

Would this happen to be the same thing?

>>1494742
Gibbon

>>1494911
Yeah. I just bought the Gallic Wars though.

>>1483910
The Hellenistic Age by Peter Green.

>>1494748
JB Bury

https://archive.org/details/AHistoryOfGreeceToTheDeathOfAlexanderTheGreat

Any books about tactician. military strategy.
I love reading in to commanders train of thoughts

>>1495409
I finished Maurice's Strategikon last month. A good read, not to short not to long, and pretty easy to get through.
Also fantastically insightful, especially if youre interested in the Byzantines.

looking for books on the French, Spanish, and Russian revolutions. As well as any other books covering the rise of socialist/extreme left states and ideologies in Europe.

Thanks in advance!

>>1495417
Perfect
Thank you and yes im interested in Byzantine
But generally im fine with almost any history point.

>>1487315
How's the rest of the series?

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>>1494839
>-There are no magic potions

D R O P P E D

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I'm also pretty interested in the Roman Empire.

I've listened to the History of Rome podcast, and have been looking at getting the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Is it a good read? What difficulty would you put the prose at, on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being Harry Potter and 10 being Ulysses.

Also, is it more of a history book, or is it more of a narrative?

>>1496287
It's got lovely prose.

But don't read it yet.

Read some contemporary histories, then some primary sources, then read it.

>>1496365
Alright, thanks for the info.

Is there anything you can suggest?

>>1496378
Ancient Rome: A New History - Potter
Complete Works - Tacitus (Everyman do a good'n)
Lives of the Caesars - Suetonius
The Jewish War - Josephus

>>1496402
Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

Ordered Scullard's Early Rome for my introduction to Roman history

Any opinions?

Is there any good literature in English regarding Sweden during and after the thirty years war? Seems like they were a big deal back then and I don't want to learn somalian to read native books.

>>1496161
Haven't touched the other ones.

A word of caution must be said that this is a book definitely written by Frenchmen, so lots of Foucault-inspired dialogue about sexual relations and boyfucking. Some of the other topics are a bit lax, and very little is spoken between the period of WRE collapse and the rise of Islam (thus we miss out on the reign of Justinian and the final climax of the Sassanids, AKA the end of Late Antiquity). Not to mention the translated prose is a bit jarring,but it is a solid read still. As long as you remain aware of the pseudo Marxist/Foucalt wording of many historical pieces, you should be fine

What do you guys think of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History? I know its pop-history, but I have been enjoying his WW1 podcast.

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The local art museum is having a special exhibit on Mughal art. Any suggestions for a history of the area?

Does /his/ hava a master list of best books for each period? If not, we should create one.

Is Gibbon's Decline and Fall outdated?

>>1498443
yes

>>1497909
Well here's a start

>Pooland
God's Playground by Norman Davies

>Prussia
Iron Kingdom by Chris Clark

>>1498443
Anything written before 2010 is outdated

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Bought this used. Has anyone read it? I imagine it has the same title in english.

>>1483075
I met him once at a lecture. Not a particularly innovative man by most counts. Well schooled though

>>1490485
City of Fortune's first section is about the Fourth Crusade and it's great. Crowley's a really great writer and gives stuff like that and the Siege of Malta a real cinematic and exciting flair.

Anyone got good book recommendations on the Byzantine-Sassanid wars?

>>1498846
I haven't read that, but I've read some chapter of Le Goff's Héros et merveilles du Moyen Âge. He's often regarded as one of the best medievalists.

Is Titus Livius' Ab Urbe Condita outdated? Is it any good?

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Is there a better history book about Modern Indian history in the context of ancient?

>>1500065
I'm curious to know myself, as this is sitting on my shelf and I kind of wanted to get to it within the next few months.

Just picked up William Shirer's The Rise And The Fall Of The Third Reich. Any Anon know if it has some historical basis.
>I know to expect some bias

>>1499083
track down anything written by James Howard-Johnston. He's the guy for a lot of it. 100 page article comparing the two.
For a really good book on Sassanid Persia read Pourshariarti's Parthian-Iranian Confederacy on the decline of the Sassanid Empire. Used that for a lot of essays.

>>1496508
Europe's tragedy by peter Wilson is a good general history of the thirty years war

>>1500065
>>1500087
>I'm not the only one who bought this and never touched it
Feels good

Can anyone recommend some books about Charlemagne, how he established his empire, the carolingians in general?

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Maybe not the best book of XX century history, but probably the most enjoyable and funny. Extremely political incorrect and with lots of interesting anecdotes.

>>1502085
http://pastebin.com/QYMYkwq8

>>1498443
Gibbon is worth reading more for historiography than history.

>>1498757

Genuinely curious, what was discovered in 2010?

>>1502510
That romans were black

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>>1502539
>implying there's only white or black
>implying tanned skin equates to black

>>1499676
If you're outdated for long enough, you eventually become a primary source.

>>1502713
No you don't

>>1502510
that white male historians of the past century are inherently wrong

>>1484493
Bismarck: A Life for a wonderful diagram of the personality. It is also extremely insightful on the day-to-day progression of major events he was involved with.

Looking for some good (preferably nonfiction, but I'm not too picky) books that cover any of the following subjects:

>Alexander and his conquests
>The Hundred Years' War
>The War of the Roses
>Exploits of Free Companies in the Middle Ages
>The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its famed Winged Hussars
>the naval warfare aspect of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
>WWI and/or WWII military aviation and fighter aces

If anyone has suggestions for any of these topics, it would be greatly appreciated.

>>1502778
Sure you do. All the stupid shit ever written becomes a primary source if it survives long enough. Every ancient graffito is a primary source, even the ones that are just dick jokes. Even these stupid things are interesting to historians because they all give insight into what people thought back then.

More to the point, the existent parts of Livy's history aren't a primary source for the events they describe. They are, however, a primary source for his society's understanding of those events. Knowing what people during the reign of Augustus thought about Roman history is relevant to historians.

>>1482922
Gibbons decline and fall of the Roman Empire is good

>>1502905
>Alexander and his conquests
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian

>The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its famed Winged Hussars
God's Playground Vol. 1 by Norman Davies

Alexander the Great.

>>1495126
Thanks homie

Can anybody recommend me any good books on ancient civilizations and the middle east?

>>1482922
Recommendations?
Anything by Tom holland.

Christopher Hibbert is pretty great. He writes those books like a novel so its perfect for somebody who hates the boring style of most academic authors. (only read Borgia and Medici)

>>1504117
I'm pretty sure he's looking for non fiction

>>1504112
The Histories - Herodotus

>>1504117
I'm pretty sure this guy is baiting, but it is if nothing else an interesting look into the culture of ancient Jews.

>>1504138
Ignore. Guy is a terrible historian.

Fuck books dude. Most are written by cultural Marxists.

Just watch realcrusadeshistory. Redpilled. Accurate. Impartial. Entertaining.

>>1505145

I honestly can't tell if this is a joke since it's how some of you retards think.

>>1482922

Looking for a good book on early bronze age. Sumer, Akkad, that sort of thing

How will I ever have time to read all the shit I want to, /his/?

I have literally hundreds of books listed and I feel like those alone barely scratch the surface of just one time period

I never asked for this

>>1505290
Schedule reading time. Read.

>I have literally hundreds of books

That ain't shit fampai. Come crying when you've got more than 10,000

>>1500065
His history of China is pretty good too, even if he does snark a bit

>>1505243
He is trying to imitate /pol/ in an attempt to be humorous

>>1505290
Manage your time wisely, and eventually you will read them all

>>1504827
Herodotus is the most boring, pointless shit I've ever read

>>1505972
Okay thanks for sharing dude

I'll keep that in mind

What would we do without you

>>1504839
Delusional

>>1503092
There seem to be many different translations of the Anabasis and Calais if Alexander by Arrian, do you (or does anyone else here) know which is the best in English?

>>1506177
Campaigns of Alexander* I mean.

>>1506177
Go with Hammond's (Oxford World's Classics)

>>1497384
Here's a quick history I found of them. It's not a book though it has a bibliography that has books you might be interested in.

https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/mughals/mughals.html

>>1487315
>private
>before modernity
Literally lack of theory there.

Looking for a book on Central Asia, specifically during the Great Game.

>>1506206
Theory is a spook

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Is this any good?

Any similar for Arab history?

What book made you fall in love with history?

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>>1507041

>>1507091
Is this a propaganda book?

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anyone read this

>>1507121
No its a history book.

>>1507121
Not as I recall; people got butthurt a few years ago because he calls gays degenerates

>>1507121
It literally says on the cover its a history book you retard

>>1507203
So do all propaganda books.

>>1507207
Not the sharpest knife in drawer huh?

>>1507220
Care to elaborate?

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>>1482922

>>1507300
The title is 'rise and fall of Nazi Germany'. Nothing ppropagandistic sounding about it. There's a little stamp saying it won a book award. There's also a quote from the new York times saying 'one of the most important works of history of our time'. So I wonder, where could someone possibly think it is propaganda when there is no evidence indicating that? Also, you couldve taken 10 seconds to search it on Google and found out that its one of the first comprehensive histories in english of Nazi Germany

>>1507376
thanks

>>1507376
>introduction by ron rosenbaum
>rosenbaum
>american journalist william L. shrier

there are better books on this

>>1507802
The question was what book made me get into history. I didn't make any claim about it being the best

Anything on the Japanese Empire? From Meiji to WWII

>>1506880

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>>1495445
I haven't read them, but maybe try checking out some Sun Tzu or Clausewitz. Does anyone have a recommended translation of either?

Looking for a good book on early bronze age. Sumer, Akkad, that sort of thing

books on the duchy of burgundy?

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I highly recommend pic related. It's not so much about Julius himself and the details of his life. It's more about the end of the republican era and what sociatal events that paved the way for change.
It offers a new look at what kind of person Ceasar was and what his motivation for toppling the republic was. There is extensive use of primary soruces and he rips Cicero a new asshole. I've always been very interestend in Julius and this period in roman history and I loved the book.

>>1492323
That's a fairy tale

>>1511436
Richard Vaughan wrote a book for each of the four and a summative work as an overview

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damn this here is a good book niggas

Is Niall Ferguson meme tier? Read Empire and enjoyed it thoroughly, even if it is a bit concise and simplified.

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>>1510209
Here's the recommended reading from a chapter of a humanities textbook of mine. The textbook also covers Mediterranean civ up to the start of the Byzantines if anyone would be interested in me posting similar sections from other chapters.

>>1514059
He's an absolutely awful writer and a pathetic "historian". He subscribes to a lot of outdated and discredited theories because that's what he learned in school. Steer well clear.

Looking for book on Regia Marina during interbellum and second world war. Technology, tactics, weaponry etc.

>books never convert correctly because people scan two pages at once
>text reads line 1, line 26, line 2, line 27... when converted for ereader

Fuckshit.

Where do you guys go to find actually good books? Most books recommended ITT and at my library is just pop sci version of history

>>1514736
r/askhistorians has a good master list of history books
also you can generally assume a book is good if it's published by a university press

>>1514756
Cheers, I'll check it out.

>>1514736
University libraries and the bibliographies of such books

Any good books on the Neo-Assyrian Empire ?

What are the staple / go-to books on the British Empire and both world wars?

What is a great book for learning about the Assyrians?

>>1489781
>Peferably in spanish
Can't really help you out there, but in English:

>Mexico
There's Revolutionary Mexico by John Hart, Judas at the Jockey Club by Beezley, and Unequal Partners by Sidney Weintraub

They don't cover everything, obviously, but they're pretty good for the periods they cover.

>>1495437
>Russian revolutions
It doesn't solely cover the Revolution but Russia and the Soviet Union by John(?) Thompson is a great book which covers Russia from Kievan Rus all the way up to the fall of the Soviet Union. I'd suggest starting there to get some background, then look at his footnotes for something more in depth..

>>1515251
Add Sherman's memoirs. Also, David H Donald's biography of Charles Sumner is amazing.

>McPherson doing a forward for Jefferson Davis
20 pages of grandstanding I assume.