what are some /his/ recommend books for a fairly new /his/torian?

>>2585409
No replies to OP. Here, from my shelves:

Pancho Villa - Friedrich Katz
Che Guevara - Jon Lee Anderson (not my favorite but you have to start somewhere)
Stalin: In the Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore
Zapata - John Steinbeck (more for semi-contemporaneous context/opinion)
The Destruction of the Americas - Las Casas
Companero - Jorge Castaneda (better than Anderson)
A Lexicon of Terror - Marquerite Feitlowitz
Born in Blood and Fire - John Chasteen
Essential Works of Lenin - Lenin (Dover Publishing; contextual reference)
Fascism - Stanley G. Payne (for context)
Das Kapital (abridged) + The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx (contextual)
Shadows of Tender Fury - Subcomandante Marcos (Letters/Communications from Zapatistas)
Secret History (CIA operations in Guatemala) - Nick Cullather
House and Street (Domestic Servants/Servitude in Brazil) - Lauderdale Graham
The Assassination of Gaitan - Herbert Braun
The City of Mexico in the Age of Diaz - Michael Johns
Setting the Virgin on Fire - Marjorie Becker

There you go. A brief history of pre/post-revolutionary Latin America.

>>2585526
some books are better than none, thanks

>>2585409
Thucydides.

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Book by David Landes is a great one that I read.

"Landes elucidates the reasons why some countries and regions of the world experienced near miraculous periods of explosive growth while the rest of the world stagnated." Its a lot more interesting than the summary, trust.