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What are the best books you've read on history?

>> No.17381257

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel
The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

>> No.17381300

>>17381257
I shall go to every thread in which Thompson is mentioned and remind you that reading humanists is laughable, tfu tfu.

>> No.17381305

>>17381257
The Black Jacobins looks pretty interesting anon, cheers

>> No.17381323

>>17381257
Nice!

>>17381300
Fragile tory scumbo has to take a swing at his better

>> No.17381372

I mostly just read popular history, nothing too academic but my favorites are The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood
The Civil War a Narrative by Shelby Foote
Armageddon by Max Hastings
The Fall of Paris by Alastair Horne

>> No.17381382

>>17381323
>Tory
Humanism is cringe and no Marxist should be a humanist

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>>17381382
Humanism seems pretty well linked to materialism, so I donno what your problem is, deacon.

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>> No.17381775

>>17381239
very qt kot, i wish to cuddle him and feed him treats.

>> No.17381788

>>17381541
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihumanism

>> No.17383263

Jurgen Osterhammel's Unfabling the East and his Transformation of the world

David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations

The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin

Ocalan's Roots of Civilization

>> No.17384267

>>17381257
GTFO with that postmarxist bullshit. Kys

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Bootlickers begone
https://youtu.be/CwA1HTH6UcI

>> No.17384294

>>17381257
>The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel
I have both volumes of this that I bought used for $1, what did you like so much about it?

>> No.17384667

>>17384294
Bump :(