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.
Does anyone have any good books on the Kargil War or Kashmiri Insurgency specifically, or more generally on the modern evolution of Pakistan's armed forces and the ISI?
Give me all you got on Denisovians!
How reliable is "the History of England" by David Hume?
I know for sure it may be really outdated historiographically, but I would like to know if it can at least be useful for someone who had a meager contact with the subject.
Actually, I would read it simply because I have been reading every work from David Hume.
How accurate are Charles C. Mann's books 1491 and 1493? I'm curious about the beginning of global exchange and stumbled across them. They seem to be popular, but what do experts think of them?