I recently finished "The Great War and Medieval Memory" which focused on Britain and Germany's use of medievalism in public commemoration between 1914-1940.

I was wondering if there's a book that covers medievalism more broadly throughout the 19th century up to 1914?

Covering things like architecture, art, literature, culturally, stuff like that.

Hi!

Looking for reading recommendations on Imperial Rome (27 BC - AD 476) . Books (in depth or overviews) covering wars, politics, culture and so on.

I've already read SPQR, Suetonius, want something more up-to-date than Gibbon and Tom Holland is not my cup of tea. I don't mind the first hand accounts but I'd prefer to get the material filtered and filled in by scholars on the subject.

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On my list so far:

The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather

The World of Late Antiquity by Peter Brown

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Maybe:

Chronicle of the Roman Emperors by Chris Scarre

Pax Romana by Adrian Goldsworthy

In the Name of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy

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Thanks!

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I've currently read these in the last three weeks, as, funnily enough, I just finished my dissertation on Ghana 1957-66 and seem to have emerged with interest in Middle Eastern & African post-colonial history. So any recommendations based on this list, no matter what they are, so long as they're to do with post-colonialism in some way I'm sure I'd be interested!

Paolo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Albert Memmi - The Colonizer and the Colonized
Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Masks
Amilcar Cabral - Revolution in Guinea
Samora Machel - Mozambique, Sowing The Seeds of Revolution
Arslan Humbaraci - Portugal's African Wars
Said, Eagleton, Jameson - Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature
Joseph Konrad - Heart of Darkness
Joseph Schumpeter - Imperialism and Social Classes
Frantz Fanon - A Dying Colonialism
Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
Edward Said - Orientalism
Steve Biko - I Write What I Like

Thanks in advance!

I read The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson recently.

This is a book that caught my eye back when it was released in 2008, but for whatever reason I have not been able to read it until now. I know nothing at all about the Italian front from the First World War, so this was quite something. Thompson has written extensively on Italy and the Balkans, and his knowledge of the area really shows throughout the book, which is not overtly academic in style. He is quite direct and clear that the major problems for Italy (who initially thought they could easily march to Trieste and occupy it, something they never managed to get close to) derives from the Italian chief of staff, Luigi Cadorna; there is nothing Cardorna does that goes well, and Thompson rakes him over the coals for it (whether he deserves that I can't say, but some post-book research suggests this is true). He also really does a good job of showing how different the front was compared to the Western: while trenches were as ubiquitous as in France and Belgium, the Italians and Austro-Hungarians also had to deal with mountains and rivers, which added a whole new dimension to the fighting. Overall, the book lived up to my expectations, and if you're looking to learn about the Italian front, this is definitely one to go for.

Currently reading:

Making of Medieval Middle East, by Jack Tannous. Seeks to show what the Middle Eastern world was at the time of Islam's rise. So far it's given an in-depth image of a world of "simple believers", showing that the general population - even many of the clergy! - are "theologically illiterate", and confessional boundaries are more locally-imposed while also being fluid. Disputations are common among the learned, but ultimately is not what pulls people into specific churches, who do so more for practical than theological reasons.

November 1918 by Robert Gerwarth. Discusses the German Revolution towards the end, and immediate aftermath, of the First World War. The author seeks to contend that the German Revolution has been portrayed too much as a failure in recent times, and the book seeks to show it in its historical context, as a revolution that achieved its aims and created a more optimistic prospect than what later judgments of it show.

Seeking recommendations on Catholic history in the long 19th century. There doesn't seem to be a lot of (recent) books about this, or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. Thanks!

Finished these two books:

Princes of the Mughal Empire by Munis Faruqui

An account of the princely institution and multiple princely rebellions and wars of succession, in which the author advances the persuasive argument that such upheavals by strong princely households were necessary to the empire's dynamic strength, bringing marginal and fringe groups into the imperial fold, and fresh blood into the mansabdar ranks.

 
The Troubled Empire: China in the Ming and Yuan Dynasties by Timothy Brook.

A very enjoyable account of the Yuan and the Ming, but mostly about the Ming, in which natural crises are discussed as well as certain aspects of administration, culture, social life, and foreign contacts; to investigate the causes of Ming decline.

Two books Ive been reading recently that I highly recommend:

Uncommon Grounds - Mark Pendergraft An incredibly interesting book on the histories, politics, and sociology behind Coffee.

SPQR: A history of rome - Mary Beard. If you like the ancient world this is a must read. Mary Beard is one of the best roman historians of all time.

Hi, looking for recommedations to learn more about life in the Scottish Highlands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

I started reading A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900, but I'm looking for more recommendations and primary sources, thank you!

Hello! Does anyone have any recommendations for books about 19th century U.S. law/legal history? This is a new topic I’ve become interested in and I’d love some literature recommendations!