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!
Could anyone recommend any books/articles/journals on the Roman Republic economy? Next school year I will be starting an undergrad dissertation and I would like to get everything ready this summer. I would like to focus on the impact the influx of wealth had on Roman society (Political, Social, Topography) within the period of 200 BC to 40/30 BC. Any recommendations would be appreciated!
I was wondering if anyone here has read 'The Campaigns of Napoleon' by David G. Chandler. It's listed on the book list as being very comprehensive, but I noticed that it was written quite a while ago. Has the information in this book held up to present academic standards?
Additionally, does anyone know of a good book as an introduction to learning about the French Revolution? I have only a cursory knowledge of the topic but I'd really like to learn more about it.
Posted before but I'll ask again:
Anyone have any recommendations n books about the Stasi? Trying to get some more info on it.
Im the "historian", read amateur, in my family. Any neat reading suggestions on a book to read for the Near east before Christianity or pre-Mongol China. I really love early history... gosh i have a hard time picking a "favorite".
Any suggestions on the maritime industry in Salem, MA from the 1760s-1830s? Specifically looking at the role of the shipbuilding industry on the early republic.
My current reading list:
True Yankees D. Morrison
Death of an Empire R. Booth
Salem: Place, Myth, Memory D. Morrsion, N. Schultz
Young Men and the Sea D. Vickers
Salem: Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail K. David Goss
Additionally, if anyone has any sources that speak of Retire Beckett I would appreciate it.
Can anyone suggest primary or secondary sources on Chinese involvement in Afghanistan around 1980? I will be writing an undergraduate thesis on Sino-American relations under Deng in the fall. I'm currently reading Sergey Radchenko's Unwanted Visionaries and Panagiotis Dimitrakis's The Secret War in Afghanistan for background.
I've gone through a lot of the history courses of the Teaching Company, and I have not found anything that speaks in depth, objectively about Indian history. Is it due to lack of published academic research/ archeological evidence that this is so?
Can someone recommend me good books that cover ancient and medieval India, up to the point of the British Raj?