Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
...And so on!
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
Hi I was wondering if there are any good books on the history of computer science / electrical engineering? I know the basics (Turing, Shockley etc) but I feel like I am quite lacking in the history of my field. I prefer more casual reading books or text books (if there is such a thing)
Looking for 4-10 books on western law enforcement and its history; just started out as an leo and would like to brush up on my history of the field
Are there any books about Abbasid administration? A list of provincial governors and what they governed would be nice too!
Does anyone have a book that provides a political history of Europe during the nineteenth century, from roughly the French Revolution to the First World War?
Right now I'm reading Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow and I am continually surprised by how much I connect with Washington through this book and how human he is, more so than I did with Alexander Hamilton (though I still loved that book). I'm going to pick up Grant next, but I would love to find another author who can drag me into a previously uninteresting (for me) area of history and make me wish there were 500 more pages! Any suggestions? I feel like I can get into any subject if I like the way a biography is written.
Can someone give recomendations on the debate of classifying Sengoku Japan as medieval or not? books, authors, etc