/lit/ - Literature

Formerly /NAG/ - New Aristocracy general

This is a place for all things fiction, poetry, history, and philosophy regarding the Imperium Europae movement. - #3

Elaboration:
>https://pastebin.com/7sGN2tZa

ON THE AGENDA: THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY

Today, we begin our journey by learning about the Mediterranean and its cultures as they were in prehistoric times up to the end of the Bronze Age. The first book from the branch of history is:

>The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World, by Cyprian Broodbank

You can find the book on anna's archive here:
>https://annas-archive.org/search?q=making+of+the+middle+sea
Some of the versions have shittier scans of the pictures, maps, and tables, but if you need a 12mb version instead of a 120mb they're there. I personally downloaded the 120mb one and I am using
>https://calibre-ebook.com/
to open the maps and tables in separate windows so I don't have to go back and forth
I have a pdf version of the book as well, if too many people end up wanting it I'll make a mega (which might be a good idea regardless, so we have a place to pile up materials going forward). The PDF version is 944 pages of extremely large font, so in reality the book is around 500 pages long, so do not be dissuaded by the amount of pages in the assignment below.

There are physical copies available on amazon and ebay but the book is somewhat rare and isn't very cheap.

ASSIGNMENT:

Chapter 1 & 2 (pages 17 - 109 in the PDF)
>start: 09/05, finish: 12/05

You can start discussing it in this thread or wait for the next one so everyone else has caught up.

Here is a quote from the book which incidentally answers the question why we doing this:
>In line with a number of recent broad-ranging histories, [this book] is written in the belief that if we do not understand the deeper past and its trajectories towards the present, we shall never grasp the conditions of our humanity, nor comprehend our present predicaments and impending futures.

Happy reading!