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.
Looking for reading materials outlining structural relationships (social, political, economic) related to the Atlantic slave trade within Africa - ie, the relationships between slaving kingdoms like Dahomey with their weaker neighbors from which slaves were captured, as well as the direct relationships between both of these polity-types and the colonial empires which engaged with them. Some information on the internal function of such kingdoms would be interesting as well; I understand that kingdoms like Dahomey were highly centralized and boasted sophisticated bureaucracies and fiscal systems.
Lastly, I am also interested in the transition of the relationship between Europe and West African coastal empires, from trade partners, through the parallel declines of the Atlantic slave trade and of the African slaver/trader kingdoms, ending with the targeted colonial belligerence of the latter 19th century.
Hello, I'm interested in books/articles on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, so I'd like to know if someone can recommend it.
Hello there!
I'm interested in the Catholic Inquisition in Latin-America (Spanish and Portuguese colonies, mainly)
Also, Folk Catholicism/Folk Saints in Latin America (although, this is more Anthropology related)
Any book, or articles, suggestion about these subjects is welcome!
Thank you all!
If anyone has any books talking about the military integration of former soviet, warsaw pact states and former yugoslav states, particularly the Baltic nations, into a combined NATO command I would love to know. I'm looking for people that may have lead men under both the Soviet military system and a NATO one, what their experience and trust relationships with both organizations was like.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for resources on printing, publishing, and other book-making stuff in Shakespearean England?
I'm looking for something competing cultures of the ancient world. When and why they developed certain technologies is a bonus.
Can anyone suggest books that focus on history - whether political, economic or social - of the Ottoman Middle East rather than court politics or wars in Europe?
Long shot, but has anyone written books/articles examining the depiction of Mongols and other Asian pastoral societies in European accounts during the 18th to 20th centuries? I can find a lot about such depictions of for example Persia, India or China, but it seems like this hasn't been studied on its own?
Theres two things I'm looking for, ideally article length and preferably available online (I don't have access to an academic library, but I do have a public library and a JSTOR account).
Anything that talks about what Cnut was doing during the conquest of 1013. I've checked the two "standard" biographies (Bolton and Lawson) and neither of them really say much about it other than mentioning that Cnut marries Ælfgifu during that time (which I guess would mean he was in Mercia?).
readings on Viking honour culture, blood feuds e.t.c.