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:
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.
Literally every time I want to ask for a book recommendation I think "no, wait til Thursday" and then when Thursday comes I have forgotten what I wanted to read about. But today I have an idea to ask about: I want to read about socialist city governments in non-socialist countries, like Red Vienna or the Sewer Socialists. In particular about how they came to power and what challenges they faced from conservative/liberal opposition and how they overcame it (or didn't.) I want the real nitty-gritty details, like what I loved about The Power Broker and Williams's Huey Long: what happened in committees, vote-counting, horse-trading. Any recommendations?
Recently I saw the Daily Journal Metting with Charlie Munger, where he talked about business education:
"By the way, the Harvard Business School, when it started out way early, they started out with a history of the business. They’d take you through the building of the canals and the building of the railroads and so on and so on."
"I think they stopped because if you taught that course, you’d be stealing the best cases from the individual professors of marketing and so on and so on. And I just think it was academically inconvenient for them. But, of course, you should start out by studying the history of capitalism, how it worked, and why before you start studying business."
If I want to study the history of business capitalism from the start, which resources (books, courses,...) do you recommend me?
Daily Journal Metting: https://youtu.be/Pp4CvjNw-9Y
I am looking for book recommendations on the transference of cultures between Hellenistic Greeks and early Indic cultures. I am most interested in the transference of philosophical and/or religious traditions, but would gladly take more of a survey of the period too.
I'm curious to find a biography of Giuseppe Garibaldi, or a good history of the Risorgimento period. I realized recently that Garibaldi was showing up somewhat randomly in other things I was reading, leading a rebellion here or a brigade of volunteers there.
I'm looking for books available on Audible - any history related subject, but especially interested in pre 19th century and/or Africa, Polynesia, or East Asia. The important thing is that it's an audio book.