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.
Haven't finished it yet but.
"Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria" by Moses Ochonu
It's the book that I am most hyped to read right now. Still in the first Chapter tho.
I am also interested in finding "Warriors of Peace" a Nigerian published popular history book on the Theocracy of Nri, haven't found it yet but seems like something I'll have to go to Nigeria and a Nigerian university bookshop (unless I am lucky) to find.
Got two books to ask about the accuracy/truthfulness/reliability/politics of for each one,and the thoughts of anyone who's read them
Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-2012
A History of Japan Book by J. G. Caiger and Richard Mason
Book by Misha Glenny