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.
Looking for books on the history of the New Deal! Particularly interested in the role of organized labor and socialists/other left groups in shaping the contours of the era.
I'd like to have recommendations on books as comprehensive as possible on the Viking Age. From explaining the conditions that caused it starting in Scandinavia and as many of the invasions as possible, like Britain, Ireland, Pictland, etc. Thanks!
Are there any landmark history books that led to a paradigm shift in their discipline and are still considered to be essential readings? For example, Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies or Gombrich's The Story of Art spring to my mind, but of course, it does not have to be as well-known as them. I'm looking at disciplines including but not limited to at ancient/medieval history or art history.
Looking for a book about a deeper analysis of the Provisional Irish Republican Army or the socialist movements of the Irish. Thanks in advance!
additional Im looking also for a book about Ujamaa.
Looking for books/articles dealing with the relationship between the Byzantine Empire and the Crusaders.
Currently have my hands on The Alexiad, Timothy Gregory's A history of Byzantium, and The Varangians of Byzantium.