Today:
Saturday Reading and Research will focus on exactly that: the history you have been reading this week and the research you've been working on. It's also the prime thread for requesting books on a particular subject. As with all our weekly features, this thread will be lightly moderated.
So, encountered a recent biography of Stalin that revealed all about his addiction to ragtime piano? Delved into a horrendous piece of presentist and sexist psycho-evolutionary mumbo-jumbo and want to tell us about how bad it was? Need help finding the right book to give the historian in your family? Then this is the thread for you!
It regards books, so I hope it is the good place to ask this question ... I just read /u/shlin28 's awesome answer to Byzantinists how dated is Ostrogorsky's history of The Byzantine Empire? and his books recommandations made me think about the book list. On various subjects, flaired users give introductory books advices, and I can't help noticing that some books come very often, but even though they seem to be the best primers, they don't appear on the book list. I assume it is because new user come everyday and that /r/AskHistorians ' panel of historians has become wider than it was when the book list has been written, but I can't help thinking that many questions asked here could be answered directly by a most developped book list. So I am wondering if it is planed to expand the book list?
Can anyone recommend any books about the history of stand-up comedy?
I'm looking for some books to read on Chinese history with an ethnographic focus, covering some part of the last couple hundred years. A professor recommended Frank Dikotter; any have opinions on his work or a specific book I should find?
looking for books to study classical history. I've just finish my BA, but have very little knowledge of the classics and would like to know where to start/looking for a good overview
thanks