Hey /his/! Watcha reading? Having some downtime with pic

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>Slavs in European History and Civilization by Fr Francis Dvornik
>Caucasian Battlefields 1828-1921 by Allan and Muratoff
Pic related is recent purchase

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>>2456198
Just started on this, any recommendations for books about the history of the steppes and horse nomads?

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I'm a huge sucker for this kind of thing. an autistic description of many aspects of life and society of a specific village in shantung province in the early 20th century.

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It's actually really fascinating. This is coming from a guy who grew up heavily and nearly exclusively on Greek and Roman mythology

>>2457694
¿ʇɐɥʇ ǝʞil pɐǝɹ ʎllɐǝɹ noʎ uɐɔ

>>2457701
Actually yes. They once had to weigh me upside down for several hours so I had to learn how to read like that. It's not too useful, but it's a skill I've earned

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it's been a really great read so far. I've always held a fascination with the Middle East and its history - particularly Mesopotamia.

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Very dry but informative

>>2457703
>They once had to weigh me upside down for several hours so I had to learn how to read like that.
Wat

>>2458112
don't respond to him. I'm salty that he one-upped my upside down text response.

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>>2457885
will you be reading more about the ancient near east? :^)

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>>2458118

Would Israelite and Canaanite matters also be included or will it be in it's own list?

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I'd never read Tom Holland before so I thought it would be a pop history, but it's actually pretty good.

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>>2456198
pretty good for anyone interested in international politics

Only historical fiction right now.
Mason and Dixon swings between being hilarious and sad.
I recieved a boner as strong as Set's from reading Mailer's Ancient Evenings.
Just started The Castle in the Wood by the same author, but it really captures late Hapsburg small town life, well at least what I know about it from Kafka and Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna (more a humanities book than a historical study, but still very good)

>>2458117
>don't respond to him. I'm salty that he one-upped my upside down text response.
I dont know if you're being serious but that seems so childish.

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Got a test on Greek mythology this week so reading through this.

t. ancient history student

>>2460632
Have you done your obligatory Bacchae reading Anon?

>>2460634
No. Should I? Haven't read many plays. Persians and Frogs are the only ones.

Apollonius' On Conics and Henry George's Progress and Poverty.

Just got finished with III.15, the proposition uses proposition I.41 in a funky way, just had me reeling, I must have been looking at the prop for 30-40 min

I'm just about to start book IV of Progress and Poverty.

>>2458148
It literally is pop history tho

>>2458130
hmm... i'll add those asap

>>2462887
on second thought i'll make a separate chart

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Not even kidding on this one.

Reading this for a paper on fascism and national socialism to see the extent of influence that Marxist thought had on both movements in terms of end goals and proposed policies (25 points, 15 of them are socialist on Marxist lines etc.) Honestly it's quite interesting to see Hitler's autobiography, as it shows how he came to adopt and further his theory of mind (though the lens of retrospective introspection though) I can see where Dr. Jordan Peterson was coming from regarding how pathological ideologies all have a near universally uniform structure that contributes to their near addictive nature relative to other belief systems.

Looking forward to when I get to chapter 5, apparently that's when it jumps into loonyville (world Jewry and all that nonsense)

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Almost finished. Ok read, he does throw around a lot of royal and socialist names, seemingly at random mixing first hand accounts and second hand rumors together. Its pretty pop his, but cool glimpse into the life of the old tsar.
I feel bad for the guy, he didn't want to be the leader of russia at all.

Anyways after this i'm gonna start on the History of the World or something like that. Its a tome I bought at the library, in a bin for like 1 dollar.

>>2463034
Also the writing comes off, at times, really disjointed, tho I suspect its because its a direct translation.

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I hate this so very much

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Extremely readable

>>2460621
calling someone else childish is pretty immature.

>>2463039

nice I'll add it to my list of things to read, plus it's cheap as chips