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.
Found a great answer on this sub that only got 6 upvotes: What do we know about grave robbery in ancient Egypt, and what happened to the robbed materials? by /u/Inhapixx
tl;dr: A lot more than I expected
Any recommendations for an introduction to the history of Mesopotamia? I read Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat’s “Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia” and am looking for similar books that cover Mesopotamia as a whole (3500bce-500bce) prior to looking into different dynasties or Kingdoms individually, such as Neo-Assyria or the Sargonic dynasty. I have checked the faq and other resources but have not found much.
I am leaning toward intellectual history for graduate school, so does anyone have any book recommendations as starting points in that field? One recommended to me already was Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson. Thanks!
Are there any good books on the history of Human Sacrifice in the world? Something which covers why and how human sacrifice evolved in the world.
Hello! I would love to know how recommended is Ganshof today, and in particular his work " Qu'est-ce que la féodalité ".
I found it on a local library and borrowed it fortuitously, even though I am very uneducated on Middle Ages history (only knowing great names such as Le Goff, Michelet...).
Even if it is not ideal, is there anything good I can learn through this work?
I’m looking for the history of labor wars in America as well as a comprehensive text on medieval military warfare.
Is there a good text about what medieval european engineering/architecture was like socially? What kind of life the people doing it had, the political circumstances they (individually and as guilds) encountered with city governments and landholders, their cultural identities etc
I'm not afraid of a dense book that costs $300, it's a christmas present.
Awesome, thank you!