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.
Hey everyone, I am an undergrad interested in the political development of the Sahel and Mali in particular. Any recommendations in this area? Experts of decolonization in West Africa really fit the bill but I want to cast a wide net. If this is something you have experience with, please comment some writing for me to check out. Thanks!
I need good literature on mass hysterias, moral panics, and emotional contagions.
And in the same vein, how they relate to modern online meme culture.
I would appreciate a recommendation for an overview of Japan's Sengoku period. The titles on the book list seem advanced - assume I'm a reader whose familiarity with the period extends to the Wikipedia page (which doesn't take long to read) and James Clavell's Shogun (which does).
Hey I'm looking for a book or books about why the soviet union fell that gives a more comprehensive answer than just "because Communism is bad and therefore it had to fail". Thanks in advance
Looking for a history of Singapore, from the foundation to the present day. Any recommendations?
Looking for a good read on the great white fleet or naval history in general, got vacation coming up.
I’ve got a post up for this but I figured I would ask here as well.
Thoughts on The Puritans: A Transatlantic History by David D. Hall for someone new to American religious history?
Greetings. Many years ago when I was a freshman in college my university had a 14 (iirc) volume hard cover set of books that we could read in the library only but could not check out. I believe the title was something like 'The Complete History of the World' or 'The History of the Whole World' or something along those lines with each book in the set focused on a major geographical location, traced through various eras. It was written by a husband and wife team, if memory serves. I've always wanted to own a copy of the set because I never got the chance to read the whole thing in college. Demand for them at the library was very high and sometimes you had to just grab whichever volume was on the shelf if there were any at all. I remember looking the books up on Amazon (back when books was all Amazon did) and it was like $700 for the set which I couldn't afford at the time. I'm in a position now where I can spare the expense but now I can't seem to find the books anywhere. Does this ring bells for anyone? Can you help me with the title or the names of the authors?
If not - can anyone suggest a really comprehensive reading list of in-depth publications or (ideally) a similar collection/set of books for someone who wants to spend the rest of her life learning as much as she possibly can about the history of the world?