BOOK RECS, BOOK SHARING AND /HIS/ CHARTS

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>>2512883
Even easier, I've already found a lot of works on particular subjects but I'm too busy to organize what I have and cut down material to a level acceptable to fit on a chart. You can to make charts on this stuff before I eventually get to it! Also don't hesitate to make charts from some of these lists:

Ottonians, Salians and Hohenstaufens: http://pastebin.com/3YKXqsqp
Medieval Poland: http://pastebin.com/Sup8mzgW
China: http://pastebin.com/GuATVPtM
Ireland: http://pastebin.com/GhXx5jyw
Scotland: http://pastebin.com/nfgxA8rr
Valois and Habsburg Burgundy/ the Medieval Low Countries (~1300-1550): http://pastebin.com/mAwavvZf
Celts/Romanization of the Celts: http://pastebin.com/NQm9DpPU
Ancient Nubia/Axum/Libya/Sahara: http://pastebin.com/sxW0tmT5
Czechs/Bohemia and Moravia: http://pastebin.com/Fw6QZyLe
Hungarian History: http://pastebin.com/guPsv4cK
Victorians (Mostly stuff on technology, industrialisation, literary reactions, working/middle/upper class history): http://pastebin.com/NEkhdCeR
switzerland: http://pastebin.com/xFsDqcd9

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>>2512890
Here is a bibliography with an exhaustive list on primary and secondary sources on the vikings
https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/resources/research/gts2-VikBibl2004.pdf

a lot of books on european history can be found in these reading lists as well
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/tripos-papers/part-i-papers-2016-2017

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>>2513008
now onto the less stellar charts. i'm gonna tone down the irony in pic related but the chart itself is done.

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>>2513019
This one i'll keep the irony on but i've gotta update it with more books, among other things.

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>>2513026
This one needs to be improved with a few changes here and there but is basically done.

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>>2513033
This one can also use a makeover

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Does anyone have a chart for the Great War?

Dumping some content as payment:
>http://pastebin.com/u/jonstond2
A collection of dozens of Oxford bibliographies about various subjects

>https://mega.nz/#F!ZAoVjbQB!iGfDqfBDpgr0GC-NHg7KFQ!8JhxSLJJ
A collection of nearly all the Osprey Publishing in PDF format. It's also where you get great reaction images from, pic related.

>https://mega.nz/#F!flYQGbzI!p1AFjtMuCLHQqocJqxV7rg!fkYxUbyR
Has a large amount of classics, plus various miscellaneous items like esoteric nonsense and other topics

Any book recommendations for US meddling in European politics post WW2? Particularly in France?

>>2513429
I posted your first link in the OP. I'm its creator. You can find several world war one bibliographies in there, but making a chart is on my list of things to do.

>>2513440
this one looks relevant
Brogi, Alessandro. Confronting America: The Cold War between the United States and the Communists in France and Italy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
>Brogi argues that political opposition in France and Italy forced the United States to reconsider its strategies to combat communism, its image, and what its “liberal capitalist culture and ideology” meant. Conversely, he argues that the resistance to Americanism by Italian and French Communist Parties provided a test for their “legitimacy and existence.”

>>2513873
Cool that Brogi book does sound exactly like what I'm looking for. Thanks anon!

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made this for all those who took the balkpill

I want a suggestion on Argentinean history, either in english or spanish. Suggestion on books about other latin american countries would be nice too

>>2514181
the balkpill scares me man

Gimme some Indochina, specifically from about the 17th century up through the current day. I've always had a weird desire to learn more about Burma and Siam specifically.

Also some Venice would be nice. I've read Norwich's and Crowley's but those are more pop history I suppose. Please do not recommend Madden.

>>2514549
first few sections of this link have books covering argentina's 20th century history pretty well.
http://pastebin.com/29DjZKJf
this is on argentina in the era of mass migration (~1860-1920s)
http://pastebin.com/D52Suy4q
heres one on the dictator who ruled argentina before the republic, juan manuel de rosas
http://pastebin.com/Y6rTSpqk
this one is on peron and peronism
http://pastebin.com/ezVRHj8g

>>2515125
on venice there's these
http://pastebin.com/uDv4e2F0
http://pastebin.com/PcEEBim1
if you're looking for another general work try frederic lane's work, which is considered the classic general history. william mcneill's hinge of europe is also another option. there are others listed in the links.

>>2515125
>Burma and Siam specifically
Neither of those states are Indochina.

>>2515321
> Indochina
se asian precolonial warfare
http://pastebin.com/MnGTvEWt
20th century french empire
http://pastebin.com/ha2Q1Edz
i'll post two more articles on the indochina wars 1945-75 and colonial se asian warfare if you're interested

suggest Christian books please.

>>2515367
on the jews and their lies

>>2515367
what kind? histories or christian literature?

Anyone have a Third Reich chart?

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Can someone recommend me something like this but about Rome?

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>>2516285
not yet
>>2516348
this chart from /lit/ has something similar to that greek book.

>>2516560
This is great, thanks a lot. And what about further reading on Greece after the book that i've posted.

>>2516583
greek history is very diverse; is there anything that struck you as particularly interesting that you'd like to learn about when reading?

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>>2516583
>and what about further reading on Greece after the book that i've posted.

>>2516610
The 2nd peloponessian war, persian wars, Macedonian campaigns.

>>2516666
Much obliged, satan.

Thank you for all this.

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>>2516668
say no more senpai
>>2516695
np anon

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>>2516720

>>2516720
>>2516730
God bless.

>>2515356
here are the other two bibliographies as promised
colonial se asian military history
http://pastebin.com/wpx3NS1N
indochina wars ,1945-1975
http://pastebin.com/H0xz7Njd

Anyone have some late antiquity?

>>2515356
>>2516748
Will definitely give those a look. Any more general histories too? It just seems like certain regions/countries (Myanmar, SE Asia and Central Asia in general) are hard to find good general histories for.

anyone got recs on spain?

Recs on the far east?

>>2516860
well if you want central asian stuff look in here, though i'm not sure what kind of survey you're looking for
http://pastebin.com/jhkeMNJU

>It just seems like certain regions/countries (Myanmar, SE Asia and Central Asia in general) are hard to find good general histories for.
do you mean books that cover all periods of a country's history?

>late antiquity
check out this chart for some stuff
>>2512977
then this bibliography on roman late antiquity
http://pastebin.com/vBP1U1rg

>>2516881
>>2516903
gotta do some stuff but i'll get to you guys later. tell me what periods or regions you're interested in though so i can narrow my search

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>>2515367

Anything on how the current politics of the Middle East have risen?

Anything on Slavs,Jews(from Middle Ages to Present), or the Eastern Front?

>>2517017
are there charts like this for other religions? Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism etc.?

>>2517050
If you want stuff on Jews, read "Rome and Jerusalem: A clash of ancient Civilizations", it's a great understanding of the development of anti Jewish attitudes in Christianity and the European populace thanks to political propaganda of the Emperors

If you want eastern front, I hear Bloodlands is good

>>2516933

umayyad caliphate, 'siglo de oro', second republic/civil war/franco

regions, probably most interested in andalucia

>>2517085
Requesting thsi as well

>>2516930
>do you mean books that cover all periods of a country's history?
Yeah or at least a decent period. If it's any indication I generally like good "survey" style books like Iron Kingdom.

I want to get into Chinese literature more. What confucian texts are worth reading? Is it even worth it to read Confucius and Mencius, or should I read an essay from a modern Chinese scholar explaining the tenets of Confucianism and the followers' views. If it's a better idea to read the primary sources, would Anelects be a good starting place?

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>>2517017
>no Origen

>>2517018
> current politics of the Middle East have risen?
like in the last few years or the last two or three decades?
I think this bibliography will have the books you want
http://pastebin.com/MLFXmx1x
>>2517085
>>2517283
not that i know of. I would make one but problem is i don't know too much about them so i wouldn't know which books to focus on other than intro works.
>>2517050
>jews
I can get lots of books on jews from those times but I don't know what to recommend. Do you want a general history or something?
this bib is on modern jewish history for example
http://pastebin.com/search_self?uq=jew
as for eastern front i have this book list on zhukov
http://pastebin.com/902sxX4C
since i've reached the pastebin creating limit I've pasted an article on the Eastern Front in the Zhukov article. ctrl f "rvsso" to skip to that part. ctrl f "stal1ngrad" to get to an article on stalin grad; "kvrsk" for books on the battle of kursk.

>>2517148
>Umayyad caliphate
http://pastebin.com/n2w5uFie
>spanish golden age
http://pastebin.com/MZa6U2Fa
>second republic/civil war/franco
spanish civil war
http://pastebin.com/WGqYYVGS
ctrl f spain in here for works on franco's regime
http://pastebin.com/DhShAReV
stanley payne also has a good book called "The Fall of the Second Republic" which was good.
also this one on spanish military history seems to have a good collection of works on the civil war and the previous section also covers the spanish campaigns in morocco in the 1920s by primo de rivera's father who was dictator
http://pastebin.com/0p8PFt0T
> andalucia
do you the moorish heritage or the history of the province in general?

>>2517335
well i've found a lot of general works on central asia and southeast asia. i'll post tomorrow if you're interested

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Anything on the spread of Hellenism in Persia, Central Asia and India? Especially material on Hellenism and Buddhism

Also anything on Siddhartha Gautama as a historical figure. The historical and social context in which Buddhism originated and spread would be appreciated.

dunno if this is the thread for this but it's worth a shot. Does anyone have "Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500"

ISBN: 9780415675871

>>2519587

thanks lad

>do you the moorish heritage or the history of the province in general?

probably most interested in the cultural mix of the place, the moorish influence and things this has created that are seen as uniquely andalucian (whether it's food, music, writing, whatever)

but those pastebins are more than enough to be looking into anyway

>>2520822

maybe? http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=8D4540FD0BEED9098DF7B6E221D22490

>>2519587
>not that i know of. I would make one but problem is i don't know too much about them so i wouldn't know which books to focus on other than intro works.

i think as a starting point the introductory works would be fine for now, until a more complete guide comes up.

>>2520128
not OP but i'm interested in this as well.

>>2520861
no, sadly not. That's one from 1937, I'm looking for a more recent one by Wim Blockmans and Peter Hoppenbrouwers

books about early slavs? especially south ones...

amazing thread, thanks anons

how do you find out all this stuff though?

>>2520972
P. Stephenson, Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 (2000).
A.P. Vlasto, The entry of the Slavs into Christendom (1970)
J. Shepard, Emergent Elites and Byzantium in the Balkans and East-Central Europe (2011)
J.V.A. Fine, Jr., The Early Medieval Balkans (1983)
F. Curta, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 (2006)
J. Ferluga, Byzantium on the Balkans (1976) C. Frazee, ‘The Balkans between Rome and Constantinople in the early Middle Ages 600–900’, Balkan Studies 2 (1993), 213–28
F. Curta and R. Kovalev (eds.), The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and
Cumans (2008)
F. Dvornik, Byzantine Missions among the Slavs: SS Constantine-Cyril and Methodius (1970)
P. Barford, The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Europe (2001)
F. Curta, The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, c. 500–700 (2001)
I. Supicic (ed.), Croatia in the Early Middle Ages: A Cultural Survey (1999)
M. Innes, ‘Franks and Slavs c. 700–c. 1000: the problem of European expansion before the millennium’, Early Medieval Europe 6 (1997), 201–16

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>>2520573
pic related for hellenism

>>2513887
i've also found this
Wall, Irwin M. The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945–1954. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511523779

>>2520870
>>2517335
http://pastebin.com/6U8GUExP

Recommended reads on Imperialism?

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>>2520573
buddhism in historical context

>>2521566
bibliography on imperialism
http://pastebin.com/D78YeDyg
european imperialism in the muslim world
http://pastebin.com/TXt8FGE5
imperialism and china
http://pastebin.com/MgFVxiX4

>>2523070
Thank you

requesting a Napoleon chart pls

>>2523657
i can't this weekend, but what would you like to see on it, though?

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>>2521431
Thanks a lot

I thought I would share what I've read so far.

>The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States by Michael Haag
This book was alright. I learned a good bit about the crusades and the Templars. It could've been better if it focused more on the Templars though.

>Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles
A great book that gives an overview of the Punic Wars and the relations between the Roman and Carthaginian empires.

>Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
So much shit happens in this book. It's wonderful. It's kinda like a gigantic convoluted drama with tons of characters. I found myself wanting multiple people on opposing sides of the wars to succeed. The main problem with this book is that it doesn't really catch you up to the modern day situation in the Balkans. Also, it's completely unsympathetic to the Serbs. I'm not sure if this is justified or not. Some Serbs on 4chan have claimed they were justified in the wars. Anyways, it was a great book.

>The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Probably the most well written book on history that I've read so far. It gives an overview of the entire Cold War. I loved reading this book. Instead of being a completely chronological account of the "war", it went through different areas of the war, but still remained mostly chronological. I wish the book spent more time on the ending of the war though. I felt like more could be said about Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher. It just felt a little rushed towards the end. Also, I'm not sure if this is a bad thing or not, but the author is not sympathetic towards communism at all. That's probably justified, but I can understand that some more open minded people might be taken aback by that.

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I'm back for my threadly shilling of stokesbury's short histories of the world wars. They're great one-volume primers on the conflicts and are written in a lucid, narrative style.

Books that cover American History in depth, including important law cases and events/signings that are not heavily covered in American schools?

Any recommendations on pre-Roman Spain?

>>2526192
check celts link here
>>2512890
books on preroman spain in english are hard to find but some of the books covering roman spain also talk about preroman spain

Can anyone recommend a book on the wars of roses?

>>2525998
>including important law cases
There are a metric fuckton of books on SCOTUS cases and how they affect constitutional interpretation.

>>2521028
He Ctrl+Fs university book lists and academic bibliographies because he's likely an actual /his/ major instead of some pophistory fuckwit. If it's the anon I'm thinking of, he literally just Ctrl+Fs Oxford bibliographies.

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>>2527255
4u

Thanks

>>2527644
Do you know of any general books on it? These seem to be kinda "niche"

>>2527741
carpenter, the second hicks book and the first pollard book are all general works...

>>2527644
>>2523070
>>2521431
>>2521405
some of these books cost like up to 50$ on amazon. Any advice anon? im a poorfag

>>2527794
ILL or pedo them if available

>>2527794
bookzz.org
or
libgen.io
I find maybe between 50%-80% of the time, depending on the subject, I can find the books I want free on these two sites. bookzz is simply a mirror of libgen but i find its interface nicer to use. However, if you see a book deleted on bookzz by a publisher, libgen will still have a working download.

If any of the titles has a DOI code you can copy that code into
sci-hub.cc
and you'll be able to get free access to the ebook behind some university paywall the site uses.

>>2527760
second pollard book* i mean

Any good recs on post-Civil War through Pre-World War I America? Overviews/surveys, biographies, etc. I've especially liked the "high political" stuff of the era and after reading Peskin's Garfield biography a year or so back I've been wanting to learn more. Same with the settlement/expansion of the west. Hopefully something fairly objective instead of "DA EBUL CAPITALISTS AND ROBBER BARONS AND POOR INJUNS" or whatever since that's all I can seem to find.

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any recommendations on Christopher Columbus, Hernan Cortes, and the conquest of the Aztecs?

Henry VIII? Cromwell? The English Civil War?

I'm no historian but I like reading history books as a hobby, particularly overviews.

Currently waiting for these to arrive:

>The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M. Judson

>The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Robert Middlekauff

>The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen

>The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815 (The Penguin History of Europe) by Tim Blanning

I've been reading Clark's The Sleepwalkers, which has been an excellent read.

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>>2528857
Didn't I show you which bibliographies to look at last thread...? If you want some more personal recommendations, Richard Rex's "The Tudors" is a short nicely written introduction on that dynasty. It has the advantage of giving a coherent view of England over the 16th century. John Guy's Tudor England is a general survey but you might get drowned in the details. Alan Smith's "The Emergence of a Nation State, 1529-1660" I found it a better laid out survey. It also has the advantage of covering from Henry VIII all the way to Cromwell. Guy's survey has the advantage of starting from Henry VII's victory at Bosworth 1485 through Elizabeth I's reign, with constant reference to the Wars of the Roses and the long-term that it set in motion before the Tudors (e.g. emasculation of the nobility through attainder, enforcement of feudal dues, and such). Anyway, if you're not the guy from the last thread, I can just give you the bibliographies you need for these subjects.

>>2528857
I also recommend reading "What Hath God Wrought," which covers the period between the 1810s and the 1850s. I liked Glorious Cause and Battlecry of Freedom but the book above gives fantastic coverage of a period that's relatively neglected in US history.

>>2517017
Please Islam one!!! ty :)

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>>2528844
these are mostly on foreign police

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>>2529264

Anything on pre-Roman/Roman north Africa? Preferably stuff aside from the Carthaginians.

>>2529205
I tried but dropped it pretty quick because Howe's biases were completely overriding. Jackson etc. were evil (really the US in general) and the Whigs were pious and virtuous and if only they'd done been allowed more chances they could've saved the United States and thus the world from those vile Democrat rascals.

I'm not even a fan of Jackson but goddamn.

By comparison, Wood is clearly biased towards the Jeffersonians but I never feel like Empire of Liberty is an anti-Federalist screed. I mean Wood spends most of a chapter examining in detail the Alien & Sedition Acts in a fairly reasoned way that makes them look much more reasonable if eventually overreaching (but with a logical mindset to their creation) which is pretty surprising.

>>2529346
yeah i agree is anti-jackson, but i thought the information about the communications and transportation revolutions, the diversity of christian sects, the cultural regions of america, cultural and scientific developments were good. he also doesn't have much to complain about monroe, van buren and polk (despite his reservations about his expansionism and manifest destiny). Tyler is treated bad and zachary taylor isn't.

>Wood is clearly biased towards the Jeffersonians
i haven't gotten that far i got to the rise of the democratic-republicans. but when i was reading i got the impression that jefferson, and to a lesser extent monroe, didn't have realistic ideas of governance as opposed to hamilton's elitist, but proven (in england), model.

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>>2529129
Yes I am. I tend to be busy at work and I have missed checking back on responses. But thank you and I'll check back on your last response. Like I said, I'm not a historian, so when going through bibliographies, it is a bit overwhelming because I don't know the scope of what the author will cover, biases, or important bits of info that are omitted that are crucial to better understanding the topic. Most books I have gone on to buy from /his/'s recommendations that have had personal reviews have turned out to be spot on and it helps non-historians like myself decide to read on a topic or not.

Tl;dr This response helps me more than a link to general bibliographies as an amateur.

>>2516730
faggot

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https://archive.org/details/@not_bot

>>2529423
not a single one of those books have anything to do with 'neo-feudalism'. In fact most are arguing quite the opposite.

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Anyone have any books good for the non Mussolini and Hitler forms of fascism? I am talking about Falaganism, iron guard, intergalist Brazil and the like.

>>2529940
this is nice
>>2529793
wat
>>2529522
I understand. I myself enjoy looking through the bibliographies but I'd see why it's not for others.

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>>2531923

>>2531998
you got anything on Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Codreanu and Bernardo O'Higgins?

>>2529465
That's actually what makes it frustrating. The stuff on transportation and communication and stuff is great. Then he starts getting into politics and suddenly it's all about how evil the US, Democrats and Jackson are and how virtuous the Whigs and British are.

>>2528844
Here's an annotated bibliography on the American Indian Wars, with a lot of books listed covering the late 19th century wars.

>>2532372
http://pastebin.com/F9B6XPW3

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>>2532129
the romanian works in that pic would focus on codreanu a lot, but not exclusively i suppose this book though has an essay dedicated solely to codreanu:

Haynes, Rebecca, and Martyn Rady, eds. In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011.
>Eighteen new essays, almost all focused on an individual figure. Although one Italian and one German are included, the others treat a wide range of significant individuals from elsewhere, including, among others, the Hungarians Gyula Gömbös and Ferenc Szálasi, the Romanians Corneliu Codreanu and Ion Antonescu, the Czech Konrad Henlein, and the Slovak Jozef Tiso. Some are widely considered fascist, whereas the status of others remains controversial. Haynes’s introduction seeks common themes.

i can't find anything on sternberg

pic related for o'higgins

What are the best books about the Byzantines?

>>2532615
If you want to start somewhere, try to get the John Julius Norwhich Trilogy. Serves as a basic narrative from Constantine to 1453. However, it's hard to get physical copies of all the books.

There's "Byzantium: A Surprising life of a Medieval Empire" and "Byzantium: A very short Introduction"

If you really want, I can email you a free download of "The World of Byzantium" Audible lecture series by Kenneth Harl, who I've listened do a superb job on 3 other lecture series (Crusades, Rome and the Barbarians, and Alexander and the Macedonian Empire). Byzantium is his speciality.You gotta have an audible account to use it though

>>2532654
Thanks, I'll get reading!

>>2532654
ehh I know Norwich is well-liked but I tried reading his work on Venice and I personally didn't like his pompous writing style. I liked Adrian Treadgold's History of the Byzantine State and Society better.

>>2529310
funnily enough i was gonna assemble stuff on roman africa. would you also want roman egypt included in such a list as well? as for pre-carthaginian north africa, i've tried but haven't found many english works on the subject. However, those I did find I posted in
http://pastebin.com/sxW0tmT5
which I've also posted above. i've found some works on libya/garamantes, the sahara, north africa, berbers and numidians. make sure to ctrl f these words to find them.

>>2532654
Is there a easy way to track down digital versions of these books?

>>2532783
>>2527812

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Podcasts?

I've been listening to Dan Carlin's podcast series and wanted to have some more recommendations.

Any period of history.

>>2532856
History of Rome (Finished, about 180 episodes)
Hardcore History
The Great Courses
Ancient Warfare Podcast
Last Podcast on the Left (if you can make through alot of bad humor)

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>>2512883
the ultimate redpill

Does anyone have any recommendations on philosophy? I've been reading Meditations and I've become ravenous to compare and contrast his ideas against other philosophies but I'm not sure where to start?

>>2533477
look at the /lit/ wiki they have stuff on philosophy. also theres a podcast called history of philosophy without any gaps and the guy posts recommended reading on the philosophers he discusses (he does everyone...so far he's covered everything up to the 14th century.

>>2533550
i'd also recommend making a thread on /lit/ because this board is not as informed about philosophy

>>2533556

Bump for this based thread

>>2533477
Read The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy. It's probably the best book to read to understand Christian philosophy.

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>>2531923
I have some I can upload somewhere if you want.
>>2530796
That's the joke, partly.

>>2515011
same, but I'm goin in

I'm looking for books about Sulla and the social war

>>2535444
Keaveney, Arthur. 2005. Sulla: The last republican. 2d ed. London: Routledge.
>This readable biography is conversant with the important scholarship but also accessible to the general reader. Keaveney's portrait of Sulla is a generally positive one, arguing for the legitimacy and justifiability of his actions and religious convictions in terms of contemporary perceptions.
Badian, E. 1970. Lucius Sulla: The deadly reformer. Sydney: Sydney Univ. Press.
>A powerful indictment of Sulla. Although no more than a brief sketch of his career, this essay stresses the darker side: Sulla's unprecedented march on Rome, the proscriptions and massacres, the confiscation of property and repression of opponents, and the reforms that turned the government over to self-serving and incompetent
Harris, William V. 1971. Rome in Etruria and Umbria. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
>Harris's thorough and scrupulous study of the evidence provides a reliable history of Roman expansion, intervention, and intricate association with Etruria and Umbria from the 4th century BCE through the Augustan era. Harris treats, among other things, the treaties and interstate relations, Roman colonization in the area, the spread of Latin in the region, the extension of citizenship, and the effects of the Social War and the Sullan settlement.

Mouritsen, Henrik. 1998. Italian unification: A study in ancient and modern historiography. London: Institute of Classical Studies, Univ. of London.
>An acute account of Italian reactions to Roman authority, the background to and the effects of the pivotal Social War. Mouritsen illuminatingly makes use of modern perspectives as well as a thorough scrutiny of the ancient evidence on this tangled and difficult question.

>>2536175
Keaveney, Arthur. 2005. Rome and the unification of Italy. 2d ed. Bristol: Bristol Phoenix.
>A serviceable narrative of relations between Rome and the Italians from the early 2nd century through the Social War. Keaveney argues that the break between them gradually evolved in the 2nd century with growing Italian disaffection, aggravated by the politics of the Gracchan era, and brought to the surface by Roman exclusiveness and arrogance.

Thanks, I appreciate your work a lot

I demand French Revolution and napoleanic history

>>2536797
did you ask for the chart on it before

>>2536325
np, enjoy the books senpai

We need a /his/ essential book list.

I don't know what would go on it though. Maybe "Napoleon: A Life" because I seem to hear it mentioned a lot. But besides that, Idk what else is popular on here.

>>2539295
Probably Herodotus, and that's it.

Anything on early middle age industries?

>>2539533
what kind of industries we talking?

>>2537585
I have not seen the chart, unless it's in the thread and I just missed it.

>>2539597
no i haven't made it yet. i think someone asked earlier for a napoleon chart thats why i asked if you're the that guy lol

>>2539730
also i asked the last guy what he wanted to see on such a list

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>>2539539
well, im sort of just interested in the logistics, the lifestyles and the impact of medieval industries in general. Like olive oil or pepper, the organisational structure of tin mines, the methods used in procuring dyes, how various goods were stored and transported in large quantities, whether or not there were any dedicated permanent settlements focusing on the production of charcoal and iron weapons for use in battles in other regions or if supplies were gathered individually from local smiths and produced by smiths in follower camps, how did the follower camps procure their raw materials for leather work and smithing? Why were so few early commanders concerned about logistics? I'm very interested in medieval communities that are almost entirely dedicated to a specific industry or product and how they came to be, what their role is in society and what kind of power is wielded by those who control it. Ideally between 460 CE and 1160 CE.

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>>2539780
hmm, i see. i can definitely find works for that but give me time

in the meantime new chart for those many anons in the past who asked for books on modern african wars.

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>>2539893
fixed it a bit

>>2539893
I am excited.

Bump and thank you for the lists.

Can anyone recommend me some stuff on Huey Long?

>>2541681
this should work
Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York: Vintage, 1982.

these books might potentially discuss Long:

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Politics of Upheaval. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960.
>In this third and final volume Schlesinger examines the Court-led rejection of the first New Deal, the challenges to Roosevelt from the left, and Roosevelt’s crafting of the second New Deal before finishing with a discussion and analysis of Roosevelt’s reelection in 1936. This work provides a clear understanding of how class played into the famous New Deal coalition crafted by Roosevelt.
schlesinger is supposed to be great but he doesn't hide his democratic sympathies

Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
>In this well-written volume Leuchtenburg deftly explores the myriad ways class was seemingly everywhere in the politics of the New Deal.

bumpo

Central Asia please, specially some books more focused on the Iranian part.

>>2543000
the first link in (focus more on the bottom forth of the pastebin)
>>2516930
the last link in
>>2521431

>>2516348
History of the Roman People by Allen M. Ward, Fritz M. Heichelheim, and Cedric A. Yeo is pretty good

>>2512883
Ok. I'm just going to ask and if someone knows any book that could help me that would be much appreciated. So I'm looking for books on:

1. The Balkans from 19cent to the start of the first world war. So basically this ends with both Balkan wars in 1912 and 1913.
2. Exploration. Literally anything about it. The focus is of course on european exploration (Portugal, Spain, England, Holland, France)
3.

>>2543128
i just made a chart about your first request
>>2514181
sorry if it's a bit hard to read

i'll get some exploration stuff in a sec

>>2543194
Thanks

Also I found this

https://docs.google.com/document/d/154h_cinOZAqZXYZTm3KSbjE7HSDHtNeCnDd05Jhlr4U/edit

The fuck is the point of these bibliographies if 90% of the books are impossible to a hold off?

>>2516933
India, from 1400 BC to 400 BC, South India during Sangam Era 300 BC to 300 AD. Mauryan Empire. Early 1st Century AD India and Indo Greek kingdoms. Gupta Empire. Gurjara Pratiharas, Arab Invasions till 9th Century AD.

>>2543395
did you try the advice here?
>>2527812
anyway tell me what in particular you're looking for and i or some other anon might be able to help

>>2543436
ok so for starters indo-greek kingdoms are covered in this post
>>2521431
as for stuff on ancient india, I haven't assembled anything but I have two bibliographies that covers most of the stuff you want I think:

ancient indian society (i think with a focus on buddhism)
http://pastebin.com/881SBThR
ancient indian warfare (which also has general works on early india)
http://pastebin.com/61jfkJxx

>>2543373
nice. at least two other anons attempted to make a comprehensive google doc for /his/ like that but the project never gained steam. it's partly why i started making these book charts lately.

as I'm looking at exploration books atm, this one seemed to pop out:

Parry, J. H. The Discovery of the Sea: An Illustrated History of Men, Ships, and the Sea in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. New York: Dial, 1974.
>A lucid account of the background and effects of the major voyages of discovery. Discusses the preparations needed in terms of maritime equipment, the technical problems associated with oceanic seafaring and their solutions, and the nature of the ocean crossings. A learned book despite its coffee-table appearance.

>>2543577
Where can I download this? Since neither Bookzz nor lib.Genesis have it.

>>2543577
ok here's what I've gathered so far towards the bottom are the most relevant books i'd say, but they all have to do with european encounters outside europe. i'll be adding more over the next hour or so
http://pastebin.com/E6WBfh78

>>2543619
well shit... well the only option is to find another book, but don't worry you'll find at least on in the pastebin i posted

>>2543635
Thanks again.

i don't even know if that kid's acting is realistic or not

>>2543436
this bibliography has stuff on the arab invasions and some muslim states in india.
http://pastebin.com/ERT3tNDb

>>2543641
np, enjoy the books

how about one for the soviet union?

when deciding to focus on one subject, how wide do you read? for example, which would be the best level:

>14th-17th century
>17th century
>17th century Europe
>17th century Britain
>English Civil Wars
>First English Civil War
>Charles I in the First English Civil War
>Clothing of Charles I in the English Civil War

>>2543738
another person requested such a chart maybe i'll make a simple one really quick

Currently working on a more introductory chart for the Romans, as I think the "Resuming with the Romans" is a bit much for the general history fan. I'll be back shortly.

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So here is my dream library Amazon wishlist; any thoughts? Additions?

>>2517017
isn't Tolstoy a massive lefty who hated god?

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>>2543953
Here we go. It's more accessible, and I am of the opinion that people shouldn't walk into history immediately reading primary sources.

>>2544149
well done, anon. very clear and easy to navigate with accessible works and resources.

>>2543738
http://pastebin.com/qUR5aaSw
here is a huge hodgepodge of books I collected on the soviet union. the first dozens of books are mostly cold war and foreign policy related, then theres stuff on the eastern front, and then stuff on the regime itself/holodomor and other stuff

>>2544002
cool stuff, maybe add herodotus, xenophon, plutarch, livy and polybius. I can't help much for the mystical stuff but as for medieval english and celt stuff check out this link (which I realize I forgot to post in OP) on welsh history. there's a lot of literary works translated into english inside the link concerning arthurian legends and romances.
http://pastebin.com/ssqCYT3P
as for viking stuff this bibliography is very big collection and theres a section on sagas where particular editions are recommended
http://pastebin.com/kL8YuzXr

>>2544025
wat. Tolstoy was never really leftist, but he did take a spiritual/christian turn in his later life, denouncing all of his previous works as immoral and decadent and basically larping as a peasant on his estate and doing educational stuff to better them. irony is though that he drove his wife to despair fucking his peasant mistress and bearing several children with her...

>>2544149
Really well made lad. I can highly recommend Goldsworthys books, they are GOAT. Both Augustus and Caesar are well written and easy to follow, a true joy to read for both beginners and romanboos

>>2544311
>>2544317
Thanks, I hope the guide is helpful in the innumerable Rome threads that will pop up in the future. Perhaps I will make a version about the Byzantines sometime.

>>2544002
wew lad have i got something fun for you
>go to thepiratebay_org
>type in "the epic of gilgamesh"
>the first upload will be by a user called "workerbee"
>click on "workerbee"
>have fun

good collection by the way. while i'm sure we both dream of expanding our physical libraries someday, hopefully you can enjoy what workerbee has to offer in the meantime as much as i have

Good job so far with the stuff but we really need to organise all this chronologically and put them all together.

>>2544760

Whew, thanks a bunch actually. Some Walt Whitman and Pushkin just on the first page of that guy, completely missing from my collection as it is.

Yeah, that photo has a few I already own, but the vast majority is that rainy day collection, those books you get all in one go the day you win the lottery, just to fill up that great big new home you bought.

Someday. But workerbee will do for now.

i'd like some on the second sino-japanese war

I'm reading Reza Aslan's Zealot. Really great work of history and revealing the real Jesus!

>>2545029
heres a bibliography on it
http://pastebin.com/8HB9Jian

There was a book I saw a few years ago that I forgot the name of but am interested in reading. I think it was about the immediate aftermath of the Western Roman Empire's collapse and may have covered Roman holdouts in the Balkans. I think it's a relatively new book and I believe there was a cathedral portrait of a woman on the cover. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Still looking for stuff on early hominids and humans.

>>2545037
kys

>>2545187
did you see this from last thread?
http://pastebin.com/7f2VGJ48

>>2545193
this one actually may be more useful
http://pastebin.com/L6Ps8ksG

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>>2545193

Nope. Thank you.

Here's a couple I can recommend about the Mongols. If there isn't a list for Mongols then someone start one, or add these if they aren't on an existing one.

>>2545207
yes i have some bibliographies on the mongols and these two books are listed. there's no mongol list yet though but considering the popularity of the topic we should make one

libgen barely has any of these books..

>>2545229
i'm curious which ones?

>>2545246

Many from the China link

>>2515125

Venice, look at Donald Nicol's work on Venice and Byzantium's relationship. Despite the title suggesting a focus on diplomacy, it is essentially a scholarly political history of Venice.

>>2545258
hmm maybe see if you can find if the publisher has an ebook and then use sci hub to go past the paywall

>>2545275
also try looking at this
https://opentrackers.org/downloading-ebooks-textbooks/

>>2544149
I can die happy knowing my shitty Gaius & Aulus picture gets posted.

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Anyone got anything on the Sengoku period of Japan?

Does anyone have any ideas as to where I could find a good historical atlas? Meaning that it has lots of maps in it. The only ones that I was able to find have more pictures than maps.

How long does it usually take to finish reading each of these books?

>>2546370

it depends

toasting an epoch bread

>>2546370
600 pages takes me like a week, I can't read more than 2-3 chapters without wanting to sleep

Does anyone know of a good book on the Phoenicians? I'd like to learn more about their civilization.

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>>2517085
>>2517283
I have three charts for Islam, but I haven't read any of the books on them yet, so I'm not sure if they're good or not.

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>>2547612

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>>2547616

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>>2515367

>>2515367
Of the stuff I read The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy is the best book to read to understand Christian Philosophy.

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>>2517017
>desert religions

>>2545792
this
http://pastebin.com/xKPmXdcU

>>2546207
i've found all of the historical atlas books i can and put them in here for you
http://pastebin.com/D3fBThKG

>>2546961
check carthage
>>2512983
those intro books will also discuss phoenicians, like richard miles for example. I've also gather books on phoenicians here. A lot of them seem to be very specialized works, some only touching on the phoenicians tangentially. However, there are some general works in there
http://pastebin.com/tpSJ9Ywg

>>2547834
+1

ugh, I just can't even every time I see one of those christards posting that stone age desert shit

seriously, no... just no...

>>2547893
>>2547834
It makes good history.

Some legendary anon ought to download these books and put them in packs

>>2548400
interesting idea... how would you do that though? dl the books and then put them in one zip file right?

>>2548437

Something like that yes. We had a library of Alexandria thread with book links for download

>>2548400
Or you could just get yourself onto a private tracker for books and download the ones you want. It's not difficult.

>>2547838
Bless you

>>2548875

How does one do that

>>2548888
MyAnonamouse.

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Any lists or recommendations for 19th century Southeast Asia. Especially books on imperialism and French Indochina and Thailand during this period.

>>2549082

Hm, I have 4 empornium invites. I could part with one for an invite here.

>>2549323
I have 2 MyAnonamouse invites and want an empornium invite.

>>2547619
Is there a good one for Nazi Germany/Hitler/National Socialism?

I know it's been beat to death as a topic but I'd like to see an attempt to aggregate the good stuff.

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so here's a new chart on another meme topic. that mormon thread inspired me to make it

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>>2549501
I happen to have this chart. Note that I haven't read anything on here so I can't say whether it's good or not.

>>2549612
Some of those are pretty good, but stuff like Blitzed is out of place and weak. Rise and Fall is also notoriously sub-par as a work of history. Not sure about the last row aside from the Browning text, which is probably pretty good. I'll have to check it out.

>>2549646
OP here, i'm getting stuff assembled. It's the next chart i'll make cause its a popular topic here. anything that you want to see on there? for example, i may cover the holocaust in another chart but maybe i'll put a few works intro works. I'll see how much space i have. I'll also put on comparative studies, debates about nazism and fascism, totalitarianism and how it links stalinism and nazism, besides stuff on hitler and the nazi regime. I think military history stuff would need a separate chart. here's what i got so far:
http://pastebin.com/xY8CwYHG

>>2546207

http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Here's a historical map database if you're into that stuff.

>>2547625
>Tarot
>Christian

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>>2515367
Another

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>Go into history they said. It'll be easy they said...

But in all seriousness could anyone recommend me a book that takes a general survey of Italian history from the medieval era to the 20th century? OP's picture seems really interesting, but it's not exactly what I'm looking for.

>>2551889
In Pursuit of Italy by David(?) Gilmour

Any recommandation about Oceania?

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>>2551907
Thanks anon, coming to these threads is always worth it.

>>2512883
Any recommendations related to Prussia/Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries? I've read Shirer and Gibbons, just looking for something more.

>>2552080
wars of german unification
http://pastebin.com/11giK4Tx
german army, 1871-1945
http://pastebin.com/AHyr7qsK

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Is this book good and accurrate or is it just pop/meme history?

>>2549168
I can recommend a travelogue
"A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam" by Norman Lewis

>>2549612
Blitzed, KL and The Holocaust seems to be pretty recent compared to the others.
Been selling good in our stores are they worth the read?

>>2552286
>Been selling good in our stores
that's because they've been hyped all over the media. while i'm not /pol/ack, i'm left wondering lately why all media outlets make a coordinated attempt to shill a certain book or event (as in, they all review it at the same time and interview the author etc. etc.). they did this with blitzed and hamilton and countless other things in the past.

>>2552319
We rarely have ads about books in my country, say from thriller novels, witch is what sells the most around here.

>i'm left wondering lately why all media outlets make a coordinated attempt to shill a certain book or event (as in, they all review it at the same time and interview the author etc. etc.)
1.They bought ad space
2.Media and magazines tend to review things just before the launch of the book or movie.
3.They gardened attention online and word of mouth.
4.Controversy sells.

Answer my question about the said books I put fourth or don't bother replying.

>>2552461
>or don't bother replying.
what? because i asked a naive question? you answered my question well but no need to act like an ass

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>>2552486
At first it looked it looked it was heading to a familiar place.

Sorry bout that.

>>2549612
I see the chart includes a fiction section as well.

>>2552594
At first it looked like it was heading towards a familiar place*
Fucking phone.

Is Napoleon by Emil Ludwig good? Can anyone attest?

>>2549168
see bottom link in
>>2521431
for more on french colonialism/imperialism in indochina check out this bibliography, ctrl f indochina or vietnam
http://pastebin.com/ha2Q1Edz

Any good books on the Baltic countries history or the State of the Teutonic Order?

>>2534784
yes please

>>2552818
bibliography on the crusades, ctrl f baltic or teutonic
http://pastebin.com/7h8fASgv
this is another one on crusading warfare, where you can ctrl same words. i suspect there will be lots of overlap though
http://pastebin.com/6RwVmGft
finally this bibliography dedicated to religio-military orders, where i think the most useful (and general) works will be
http://pastebin.com/brp4aFQr

>>2528857
Have you tried the Conquest of New Spain? Was written by a conquistador who was with Herman's men, I've been meaning to read myself

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Hands down my favorite book on the Vietnam War/Anti-war movement. It's not a survey of the period or anything, but I consider it a must read for anyone interested in the era.

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>>2551919
stuff like this? as it is i'm almost done making a chart on the maori

>>2552729
Thanks

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I'm currently on this book, published in 2000, and it's great. It is detailed, but written in a way that you can consume it.
Though, every few pages he references specific parts of Scotland in a way you could only understand if you were more familiar with their highway system and so on
>Lively, detailed reading of Scottish history from the Mesolithic era up to Modern day Scotland (1999 at the time.)
>Book has several maps, (all of them page sized, no fold outs or anything like that) including a general map of Scotland and a map of the Romans in Scotland.
>Along with the maps, he also has a Chronology of Scotland in the back listing the events as they happened by year from 10,000 BC to 1999 AD.

I've been travelling very slowly with this booking, barely breaking more than few pages a day, and I'm unhappy with how little of a dent I've made in the past few days of reading it.

I didn't think this question deserved it's own thread, so I'll ask here.
Is there any trick to retaining the years and as much of the information as possible, /his/? I think I've done a fairly decent job of it, I've got a decent memory. But I want to be able to reference the years and their events with certainty and confidence in the future.