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>Hundreds of book lists for research into numerous topics, with explanations of each recommendation pastebin.com/u/jonstond2/1
>Compilation of Recommended Reading Charts from previous threads: imgur.com/a/7YLKv
Mega libraries of free e-books suggested by kind anons:
What are some good intro-tier books on the Minoans? Or on the Bronze Age in Northern/Western Europe?
Aiden Morris
>pirating You people are scum, they should name a parisitic wasp after you like they did sci-hub By pirating you are not supporting the creators I bet you don’t even have your own copy of swordsmen of the british empire
Ethan Bell
Does anyone have a copy of Herodotus in simplified English where it’s a linear timeframe rather than jumping it around, /TrumpGeneral/ said I should start there but all this bouncing in time makes me dizzy
Grayson Martin
The mycenaeans by Rodney Castleden is comfy. For Atlantic Bronze age, Barry cunliffe has some good works (On the Ocean and Europe Between the Ocean). His more broad works cover it, but he also provides further reading for the topic, I don't have the books with me (just got to work) but I'll look through when I get home for ya champ.
>Tfw only read primary sources >Tfw still don't want to pirate the intellectual property of the authors, but I don't know who the heirs of Herodotus are, so I don't know who to send my $5 to for royalties on The Histories. Feels bad
Christopher Lopez
Send it to the Greek culture ministry. They could use the money.
Owen Hill
Tangenting this, are there any vidyas set in the Bronze Age?
Is there a way to search the pastebin or do you have to just keep clicking through? Looking for Soviet Union shit.
Logan Ramirez
That poor doogo
Adam Price
you're a dumb shit. most of the profits go to the publishers, ESPECIALLY the research papers uploaded. if not that, some academic works are atrociously overpriced (just go on amazon to look up the price of some of them). you also forget that most people can get shit for free from the library anyway, and uploading this digitally helps save people the trip. Some people aren't so luck to have a well stocked library near them, so they have no other choice other than to download stuff free. Your post takes for granted that not everyone can just up and pay for books which, if you buy second hand, the author is not getting royalties for anyway.
furthermore, some of the pirated works are also by dead people. on top of that, the more a scholar's work is read, debated and cited the more relevant he becomes, so it's a possibly benefit to have his work circulating.
Bentley Perez
what period of soviet union
Daniel Fisher
I don't have $500,000
Logan Robinson
Preferably Stalinist, but also somewhat after. I kinda realize I probably don't understand how the thing actually ran.
Would recommend this book, halfway through it. The stories and description of the climate I found to be very colorful. Helps flesh out the history of region much over looked. Though its very short, some 240 pages of actual reading and some 20 or so pages of notes of resources. It a book you can finish in a day or two.
>Expedition of Cyrus would be appreciated too Stick to the Oxford World Classics version, or wait another year or so to get the upcoming Landmark classics edition.
Robert Russell
Anyone got some recommendations on the rise of the Ming Dynasty?
is this shit good, i have it being delivered right now—i tried the krupp book and thought it was trash (sort of related topic)
Jason Nelson
i liked it a lot. it's not the best written book in the world, but after i finished i felt i had a very firm grasp of what prussia was whereas before i had only vague ideas
Juan Nguyen
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a boom about the history of South Korea in the 20th century? Maybe even until around 2010 or so?
whats the best book to understand the dynamic between trotsky and stalin?
Hunter Reyes
trotsky the eternal revolutionary by volkogonov discusses trotsky's political career and would cover stalin and trotsky's rivalry. don't read deutschcer's biographycause he's a trotsky admirer and anti-stalin so you won't get a balanced view of the struggle
Kayden Reyes
what are the books by hegel I have to read?
Hunter Anderson
Currently reading this, any opinions on where to branch out of it?
What does Veeky Forums have for the Mongol Empire? I've read the basic stuff and want something a bit more in-depth.
Justin Scott
Thanks pastebin user. You are doing gods work.
Aiden White
i had collected books in anticipation of making a mongol chart but i never got to it. the books are in no particular order though i did organize some stuff pastebin.com/MUE0RauR i never added books from this other pastebin on the wars waged by ghengis khan and his successors, though there might be some overlap pastebin.com/mNF84gwb
see the imgur in OP and there's a chart on the Yuan Empire
if you want more ancient egyptian stuff pastebin.com/VzezWf3m section on "literature"
Jason Cruz
Thanks user.
Kayden Perry
np enjoy your reading
Owen Cooper
woops
Colton Morgan
>Tfw i finished the book i am currently reading today and thirty minutes later the mailman brought my next book (pic related)
May Allah bless Jezz Beezos and his underpaid underlings.
Tell me how it is. if your that inquiring user from the last thread i also want to point out these works on liang qichao if you want to read more on republican citizenship. your zarrow book is mentioned too
Yea i am. Sofar i only read the introduction, but already there Liang Qichao and his thoughts on citizenship are mentioned. When i finished it i will post my thoughts on it.
Anthony White
any decent biographies of james madison? I couldn't find any in the links
Juan Brooks
pic related and these Stagg, J. C. A. Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. >Definitive examination of the politics of the early national era and its relationship to why the United States went to war and what its consequences were. Banning, Lance. The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. >Penetrating intellectual biography of James Madison influenced by the republicanism debate. Important for showing how the political ideology of republicanism developed. Dunn, Susan. Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. New York: Basic Books, 2007. >The story of the cultural and social decline of Virginia, from its heyday in the 1780s to the gloomy 1830s. Emphasis is put on the Louisiana Purchase opening up a vast new market for Virginia slave breeders. Essential to properly assess Jefferson as a member of the Virginia gentry.
I've had the pleasure of reading that. MacCulloch is truly a master of his craft. His long book on the history of Christianity is also worth reading.
By the way, please do not just post covers of random books - at least write a couple of lines selling the book.
Christopher Brown
What books (no pop book shit please) are on general life and societal structure of the 15th century (I'm specifically interested in the late years 1450-1500)? Or just segmented topics, like books on peasants, burghers, aristocracy, and so on. I've read Commines' memoirs, a few books on the Wars of the Roses (specifically on warfare rather than the politics), and I want a broader in-depth context to acquaint me with the period properly instead of just the rudiments/backdrop
On another note I'm pretty depressed over Commines' account of his former master. Fuck Sch*eizer goatfucking yokels
>like books on peasants, burghers, aristocracy these maybe, all related to the renaissance and reformation eras. it's a bit of a scattershot to post so many but i get the impression you want more than a narrative of events and want a panorama of european society as it existed in your period of interest? i could also post stuff on specific countries but these general themed bibs might give you books with a more european wide focus comparing institutions and classes everywhere on the continent. nobility pastebin.com/npw7WSdW guilds and manufacturing pastebin.com/8CVmnm1s banking and money pastebin.com/6yCQcCUw artisans pastebin.com/vFMyu6gQ trade networks pastebin.com/Zs1RdzH5 family and childhood pastebin.com/aba66JYd
desu he does it to bump the thread i think. i also think that covers are ads in themselves and although it's irrational they in themselves can promote interest and excitement in a subject.
Anyone know of good books from the perspective of Japan during the Sino-Japanese war/ww2 ?
Owen Sullivan
Anyone got any book recommendations on Puyi?
I did some cursory reading on /wikipedia/ and his story sounds very intriguing. The last Emperor of China, then puppet of the Japanese, then 'reformed' citizen of the People's Republic.
