let's get one of these threads going. recommend books. post charts. discuss books you're reading or plan to read in the future. ask questions about books. anything goes. all contributions to the progress of our collective knowledge as a board is welcomed. I'll start the thread by posting some charts i've made lately and resources for people to consult.
pic related is a new chart on the knights hospitallers
free books can be found on libgen and b-ok. free academic articles can be accessed through sci-hub by pasting the link of your desired article into the search bar on the site
Xavier Johnson
norman kindgom of sicily
Asher Cruz
franco's spain
Ethan Cruz
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Connor Sullivan
Ive only read everitts bio of cicero which was good. Toynbee had a conservative and christian so take that as you want. Norwich isnt liked here though others love his byzantine trilogy. I personally didnt take to his writinf stule reading his book venice. I see livy moreso than polybius recommended but i think the consensis is that polybius and livy arenboth worth reading. Wickham is very well liked around here. Anthonys book is recommended now and again. Not sire about huntington.
Charles Ortiz
Conservative and christian bent*
That said i think he was an accomplished scholar in his time but hes historiographically dated
Isaac Turner
Bump
Jeremiah King
Wickham's IOR is a dense dense read. It took a long time for me to plow through it. It does cover a middle ground between gloom and doom of Peter Heather/Bryce Ward Perkins vs the sunshine and rainbows of Peter Brown when it comes to Late Antiquity.
Landon Sullivan
Lit rec chartfag here. Dumping all my content so far.
Brody Torres
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Chase Price
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Hunter Sullivan
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Daniel Collins
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Chase Evans
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Bentley Stewart
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Carter Myers
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Ryan Gutierrez
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Luis Anderson
gr8. I think i've included most of them in the link in OP.
have you ever thought of organizing your recs by time period, theme or country like your last few? i think theres value though in just doing it randomly. because when you make charts too ordered people are confronted with too many choices on one subject. the more jumbled pictures have the advantage that people can just take up books by whatever title or cover strikes their fancy and make random associations on books of very different times and places, which is fun and provoking (really there's just as much value in that imo as choosing a book for 'rational' reasons)
Nathan Green
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Jaxon Hill
biblical history lacking except for John Walton
I'll just make a list here and if anyone wants to make a chart of it then they can
Mark S Smith - Early History of God James K Hoffmeier - Israel In Egypt Michael Heiser - Unseen Realm John Day - Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan Richard Hess - Israelite Religion Van Toorn - Dictionary of Deities and Demon in the Bible Frank Moore Cross - Ancient Yahwistic Poetry John Walton - Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology Bob Becking - Only One God? Patrick D Miller - Ancient Israelite Religion Peter C Craige - Ugarit and the Old Testament Coogan - Stories from Canaan T M Mettinger - In Search of God Ben Sommer - Bodies of God Victor Matthews - Old Testament Parallels and Social World of Ancient Israel Kenneth A Kitchen - On the Reliability of the Old Testament William Dever - What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It Dictionary of the Old Testament series James Pritchard - Ancient Near Eastern text relating to the OT
Anyone have good books for Portuguese/Brazilian history? I can find lots of books on Spain and Spanish america, but having trouble with these.
Jonathan Adams
>everything simple/dumbed down has to be for Americans because lol Americans are all dumb amiright >calls others retards But Uses Absolutely Retarded Capitalisation
Hunter Reed
I made several charts on the portuguese empire but i never completed all of them. I have yet to make ones on portuguese africa, colonial brazil and the "portuguese atlantic". Here are all the books i've collected on colonial brazil though pastebin.com/iXvFkrPT it's not organized though.
i'll post the charts i've made on portugal so far though cause they have general works that'd cover the portuguese empire as a whole
Kevin Collins
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Luis Phillips
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Luke Parker
Thanks, man
Kevin Morgan
Any recs for East Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, and religious things like Gnosticism? Or even stuff like Architecture/cities/settlements/etc?
Luke Phillips
afaik the charts are books taken straight from rec threads in the order they're posted
Blake Garcia
any good books on early exploration/colonization of the americas?
stuff thats basically a compilation of first-hand sources would be best
Robert Peterson
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Julian Morris
Ah i had forgotten that the user compiled them that way
Connor Allen
Bump
Caleb Bell
Well if you've got little background in it, China: A History by John Keay is a nice start.
Ryan Cruz
Add in Furies: War in Europe its honestly my favorite book on war in the early modern period being about what we would call war crimes in that early age. Its a horrifying piece.
Ayden Diaz
What are some good books on the Old Swiss Confederacy (political systems, taxation, war, relgion, and trade, as well as town structure/culture), and post Napoleonic Swiss History?
