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.
Has anyone read The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History? The economist Tyler Cowen was praising it a lot on his blog and I’m curious what the historian community thinks of the book. If not recommended, is there a better book out there on the period? Thanks in advance!
What are the best books to read for an overview of the development of archeology as an independent discipline? I’m particularly interested in the period from about 1740 to 1940.