Thursday Reading & Recommendations | January 02, 2020

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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.

TheButterBabe

I was looking through the booklist on here and noticed that there weren't really any selections for Muscovy or Imperial Russia on it. Are there not any flaired users that specialize in that area, or is there another reason for it being left off? Is it not a widely studied era/area of history in English?

onemonkey06

I would love to read pretty much anything related to German-speaking Switzerland in the early 18th century. I'm working on a novel set there, and I'm finding research much more difficult than I expected.

dnapol5280

I've about finished "Nature's Metropolis" by William Cronon (the wiki is right, it's quite a page turner!). I was curious if there were comparable works for other metropoli (?); I perused the wiki and nothing jumped out but I very likely missed something or didn't look in the right sections. I did find one on Portugal's Asian trade, but at least from a glance it seemed more general, and I didn't notice anything comparable for say London or New York City. Thanks!

takawasa

I am looking for a compilation of Greek myths written through the perspective of a historian or anthropologist with anecdotes on the significance each myth had in the ancient world. Alternatively any work on Greek myths written with a more academic slant would do.

Sk8teraid

I want a book about italy before, during, and after world war 2. I read a book called The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Togan and enjoyed it a lot, and I want something similar to it but following Italy. Thx