[Meta] Let's improve the list of Books & Resources

by 2gdismore

Morning fellow /r/AskHistorians subscribers.

I'm writing today because I think that the Books and Resources list can always be improved. Specifically, I think it's lacking in the realm of early humans.

I'm a student teacher currently in 6th grade. Our curriculum starts very early on and in looking on this page for books about the history to brush up I found it lacking. Don't get me wrong I love the resources and book list but at the same time, it can always be improved.

So I'm calling on a few specific flared users who could contribute to adding books about the following topics specifically:

  • Mesopotamia
  • Early civilizations and the move from hunter gathers to nomadic people
  • Hammurabi's Code - though I have a basic understanding I'd like to find a good book or reference that explains it in the context and its implications and how it paved the way for modern-day laws too.
  • Human migration
  • early and ancient writing

As far as flared users that could contribute, I'd tagged the following based on who immediately I think might be of help:

  • /u/Muskwatch
  • /u/400-Rabbits Moderator | Pre-Columbian Mexico | Aztecs
  • /u/Ahhuatl Mesoamerica
  • /u/CommodoreCoCo Moderator | Mesoamerica & Early Andes|Historical Linguistics
  • /u/Cozijo Mesoamerican Archaeology | Ancient Oaxaca
  • /u/Mictlantecuhtli Mesoamerican Archaeology | West Mexican Shaft Tomb Culture
  • /u/Ucumu Mesoamerican Archaeology
  • /u/ScipioAsina Phoenicia and Carthage | Second Sino-Japanese War
  • /u/ByzantineBasileus Ancient and Medieval Warfare | Byzantine History
  • /u/asdjk482 Bronze Age Southern Mesopotamia
  • /u/cdbavg400 Hellenistic Mesopotamia | Graeco-Near Eastern Cultural Interactions
  • /u/riskbreaker2987 Early Islamic History
  • /u/WedgeHead Ancient Middle East | Mesopotamia
  • Oceanic History
  • /u/kookingpot Archaeology | Ancient Near East | Southern Levant
  • /u/missingpuzzle Ubaid and Uruk Mesopotamian Society
sunagainstgold

Have a look at r/AskAnthropology's booklist, especially the Archaeology section. I think that will help with some of your prehistory and similar questions.

Georgy_K_Zhukov

Just a heads up, but username pings don't work in Threads, only comments, and you have to do them no more than 3 at a time!

That aside though, we are always looking for improvements to the Book List, but in the end, it is user generated content done in peoples' spare time, so there is always more work to be done.

SUSHIKID1

Hi there! Currently an undergraduate majoring in History and took a module on global migration and thought i could offer some suggestions on books that i felt was pretty important to me in terms of the way they framed migration.

Gabaccia, Donna R., and Dirk Hoerder. Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims : Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011.

Lucassen, Jan, and Leo Lucassen. Migration, Migration History, History : Old Paradigms and New Perspectives. Bern; New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Wang, Gungwu. Global History and Migrations. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997.