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!
Yesterday I received Theresa Earenfight's Queenship in Medieval Europe in the mail. So excited to read it!
I'm currently reading John Darwin's After Tamerlane and I'm quite enjoying it!
I started reading Alfred Döblin's Eine Reise in Polen, an account of his 1924 journey to Poland, describing the life of the populace there - especially the situation of the Jews.
Is anyone aware of other good books about life in Eastern Europe in the interwar period?
For anyone else curious about this topic: A while ago I also found this Jewish newsletter from Gleiwitz/Gliwice. It gives you an unique glimpse into the life of the Jewish community in easternmost Germany from 1936 to 1938. It's an extremely insightful read, if you understand German.
Does anyone know of any good books on the Kingdom of Asturias?
Giving myself a crash course over Mexican agrarian history. I set a hard limit to 20 volumes, and I'm glad I did because if I let myself go beyond that I would never stop!
Currently working through Tutino's first book (which is really making me want to re-read his birth of capitalism book).
The dramatic ecological diversity alone is a bit dumbfounding coming from a fairly restricting field in that regard (Anglo-Caribbean).