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Anonymous Sun Mar 23 10:11:25 2014 No.4691811 [Reply] [Original]

Any recommendations for books on the subject of history? I'm looking to gain a good overview of the history of the world, from European history to African history, etc. I just want to have a well-established base knowledge on history, because I think it's important to know, especially seeing the ignorance on history from the people around me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 10:13:25 2014 No.4691817 >>4688521

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 10:27:25 2014 No.4691850 >>4691817 I honestly don't know how to decipher the bullshit in that thread, as I said, I don't really have much knowledge when it comes to history, so some help. I mean, I wouldn't even know where to start with all those historians.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 15:56:07 2014 No.4693037
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>>4691850
you start we're you'd like (Start with the Greeks. hehe) Seriously, it's such a huge subject, a mere overview is not doing it justice.* Regions or aspects of the story can be done okay in single volumes. I can recommend a whole bunch of books, but I'm just not sure which you'll like or can take. I've personally been burying myself in Byzantine and revolutionary histories, but it spreads out...
So should I just give an image dump?

*Pic related. He picked "the west", ran eleven volumes and died at the Napoleonic age before finishing

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 15:58:08 2014 No.4693048 >>4693037 >So should I just give an image dump? Not OP but go for it

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 15:58:08 2014 No.4693049 >>4693037 Oh yeah the 24/7 shitposter has surely read everything in existence during your queef breaks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 15:59:08 2014 No.4693054 >>4693049 >implying you can't read and queef at the same time do you even multitasking?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 16:00:07 2014 No.4693064 >>4693049 >everything in existence redundant

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:13:07 2014 No.4693148 File: 34 KB, 398x600, 1848 - Rapport.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693037 >You start where you'd like The fuck was I doing while staring this post? >>4693049 Hardly! Never implied. But I know some, either first hand or by reputation.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:28:08 2014 No.4693241 File: 42 KB, 291x475, Paine - Common Sense.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:32:07 2014 No.4693269 File: 35 KB, 311x475, 1395606742690.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:33:07 2014 No.4693274 File: 71 KB, 323x498, Jacoby Freethinkers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:35:07 2014 No.4693283 File: 67 KB, 262x394, 1395606902541.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Sun Mar 23 16:37:07 2014 No.4693309

HG. Wells Short History of the World. He has a 200-300~ page one and a similar (but separate) 1000~ page 3 volume book, the former being for real laypeople who don't have time to read a 1000 page fucking book.

It'll get you up to the 20th century and give you a good general knowledge of things, and more importantly a skeleton which you can flesh out by reading other stuff, e.g. suggestions in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 16:42:07 2014 No.4693336 >>4691811 'Understanding Human History'

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 16:43:07 2014 No.4693340 Peoples' History of the World

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:49:07 2014 No.4693371 File: 92 KB, 497x793, Founding Brothers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sort of a center right author but well told stories

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:50:07 2014 No.4693380 File: 212 KB, 434x650, Garibaldi - Riall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Very in depth. Impressive work done here.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:53:48 2014 No.4693393 File: 38 KB, 394x600, the-poison-king.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pulpy but she's careful to tell you when something is just a legend or twist of conjecture.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:54:45 2014 No.4693399 File: 112 KB, 500x820, 1395608096498.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] An overview with a particular focus, like >>4693274

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:57:45 2014 No.4693410 File: 301 KB, 986x1512, Lawrence and Aaronsohn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 16:58:46 2014 No.4693420 File: 31 KB, 310x475, Orwell - Homage to Catalonia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A classic journalist account. I also want to get The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, sometime.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:03:45 2014 No.4693437 File: 44 KB, 326x500, 1453-Crowley.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:06:45 2014 No.4693449 File: 23 KB, 242x338, BYZ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Two thirds done. Lesson for /pol/: Sometimes things "fall" over centuries.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:07:45 2014 No.4693457 File: 29 KB, 300x449, Absolute Monarchs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693449 Also thinking of getting this one.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:12:45 2014 No.4693476 File: 37 KB, 242x400, Bloch - Feudal Society.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bloch comes highly recommended by anon.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:13:46 2014 No.4693489 File: 73 KB, 369x480, Braudel - The Mediterranean.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just purchased these. Anons seem to really like the author

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:15:45 2014 No.4693498 File: 55 KB, 573x845, Brook - The Jews of Khazaria.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:16:45 2014 No.4693508 >>4693371 Is this any good. I was thinking of getting it from my library, decide against, for no reason really.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:17:45 2014 No.4693511 File: 39 KB, 262x400, 1395609438152.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:20:45 2014 No.4693528
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>>4693508
It is. Like I said, he's politically center right like David McCullough, but it doesn't harm the telling of the stories all that much. Perfect library book with each chapter a story of its own.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:24:45 2014 No.4693551
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Has anyone read this one?
I hear good things about the author and I want a good recount of Hannibal and the whole Punic wars from both Carthage and Rome's point of view.

Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:27:46 2014 No.4693566
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I found this interesting.
It's huge, and I skipped entire revolutionary war and other ideology heavy chapters (especially one that's just a rant on money not tied to gold or something else valuable)

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>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:29:45 2014 No.4693571 File: 46 KB, 331x500, King - The Black Sea.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thumbing through this book, I found a story about Anacharsis the Younger, who was a Scythian philosopher.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:30:45 2014 No.4693572 File: 37 KB, 329x500, Postwar_book_tony_judt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:31:45 2014 No.4693578 File: 143 KB, 583x865, King - The Ghosts of Freedom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693571 More contemporary

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:32:45 2014 No.4693584 File: 31 KB, 263x400, King, Charles - Odessa.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693578

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:35:45 2014 No.4693599 >>4693551 >punic wars from punic point of view Good fucking luck.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:41:45 2014 No.4693635 File: 40 KB, 324x500, 1395610882938.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I want a good Roman Republic book too..

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:43:46 2014 No.4693646 File: 23 KB, 422x648, 1395611012928.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693599 Ah good point. Something that reconstructs what we can know

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:44:46 2014 No.4693652 File: 69 KB, 422x648, 1395611076139.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693646 >What we do know. Bleh

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:46:45 2014 No.4693662 File: 15 KB, 208x300, 1395611172581.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Starting on this one soon.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:47:45 2014 No.4693668 File: 40 KB, 357x475, The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:49:45 2014 No.4693672 File: 21 KB, 260x390, Xenophon - Anabasis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:52:45 2014 No.4693684 File: 292 KB, 900x900, wtf (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >suggesting stuff you havent read

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:53:46 2014 No.4693685 >history of the world Enjoy your generalising bullshit and deliberate obfuscation.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:54:46 2014 No.4693686 File: 52 KB, 335x380, AIDSintensifies.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693685

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:56:45 2014 No.4693689
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>>4693684
Offering things that have come to me highly recommended. Descriptions of which can be found online to see if they appeal or not. Same as taking the actual suggestions of the pieces I have read.
Can I help you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 17:57:45 2014 No.4693691 Oh wow. Butterfly confirmed for best tripfriend since the golden age.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 17:58:45 2014 No.4693695 File: 113 KB, 315x475, Marcus Aurelius - McLynn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693684 You might want to delete that btw, cock worshiper.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:01:45 2014 No.4693703 File: 16 KB, 231x346, 1395612078328.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693691 Seriously? Oh the pressure and the doubt

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:03:46 2014 No.4693707 File: 25 KB, 300x457, wilkinson rise.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:16:19 2014 No.4693784 Butterfly have you read all the books you are posting?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:18:06 2014 No.4693795 Not OP, but I've yearned for such a thread. Thank you, pretty butterfly.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:20:05 2014 No.4693810 File: 228 KB, 800x1202, Dunn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:28:05 2014 No.4693857 >>4693784 Obviously not, seeing as how she's on /lit/ 24/7, but when it comes to recs forwarding shit is acceptable.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:28:05 2014 No.4693860
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>>4693784
Oh no. Just...

>>4693148
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>>4693437
And will be finishing this one up at the end of the year I think >>4693449
I guess I could add some of the historical bios and such

>>4693795
Me too. ... I pick out some of these titles from previous threads on the subject. Pictured.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:31:05 2014 No.4693881 File: 44 KB, 322x500, Wilmot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:34:05 2014 No.4693908 File: 90 KB, 353x500, Danté \| A Life.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693860 A fine little bio, but I think I'll pass it on now.

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>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:36:05 2014 No.4693920 File: 37 KB, 329x500, 1395614176400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What I was reading when I first started coming here. 2011? What year is it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:36:05 2014 No.4693922 File: 37 KB, 270x400, Wells.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:37:05 2014 No.4693930 File: 27 KB, 250x400, Wedgwood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:38:05 2014 No.4693937 File: 39 KB, 238x345, Sailing from Byzantium.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] An easy reader intro to Byzantium. Jr. High material imo. Good name dropping throughout.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:40:06 2014 No.4693952 File: 39 KB, 323x500, 1395614448551.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693922 HA Poke <-Maybe too specific to consider it a history book, but it's a good junior historical book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:41:06 2014 No.4693953 File: 154 KB, 291x475, tuchman.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:42:05 2014 No.4693962 can anybody recommend a good biography on Napoleon?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 18:42:05 2014 No.4693963 File: 49 KB, 329x500, Gies.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:42:05 2014 No.4693967 File: 83 KB, 322x500, American Sphinx.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ellis again. Jefferson compartmentalized. Pretty good for what it is.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:47:05 2014 No.4693991
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>>4693962
I go to my used book shop and the French history section has like two shelves of Napoleon. Which is better? I don't know.
Barely anything on the revolution and next to nothing on the Paris commune.

<-Michael Grant was okay. Something about him left me cold. Brief but dull? Maybe I'm being too harsh.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:53:06 2014 No.4694017 File: 68 KB, 325x500, Francis Perkins bio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This was really good too.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 18:56:05 2014 No.4694033 File: 42 KB, 299x450, Samuel Adams - Puls.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This was junior high level, but I enjoyed hearing about Adams. The superior of the two Adams' It's just too bad he didn't leave behind too much writing.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 19:01:05 2014 No.4694059 File: 17 KB, 260x391, 1395615701686.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4690943 The Shoemaker and the Tea Party ^This guys story ties in with Adams. Sounds like a really interesting bio. <-Very nice little book from Walt Whitman.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 19:07:06 2014 No.4694090 File: 29 KB, 308x475, Carr - Devil Soldier.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Weird character. Motivated by money obviously, but what an odd story.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 19:10:05 2014 No.4694104 File: 379 KB, 446x633, 1395616211095.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Back to the wants list

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Sun Mar 23 19:12:05 2014 No.4694124 File: 97 KB, 473x720, 1395616374455.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Like is this better than the Golsworthy, or not? >>4693551

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 19:18:06 2014 No.4694148 >>4693860 cheers

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 22:22:44 2014 No.4694860 >>4693309 >a similar (but separate) 1000~ page 3 volume book Would that be "The Outline of History"?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 22:48:07 2014 No.4694953 >>4693953 >Tuchman muh knee-gro >>4691811 If you want a good base, I would recomend the cartoon history of the universe, seriously it is great. After that,The story of civilization by Durant and Durant

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 23 23:18:30 2014 No.4695046 >>4691811 Julius Caesar by Shakespear

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 00:25:34 2014 No.4695244 >>4694953 Sadly Cartoon History has superior historiography because it presents itself knowingly as a fictional account.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:03:30 2014 No.4695540 File: 44 KB, 350x536, 14740.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:05:30 2014 No.4695546 File: 59 KB, 330x500, 7147196-L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Like that guns germs steel. Cheese, worms, bread.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:06:30 2014 No.4695551 File: 41 KB, 372x400, 1389097292466.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693872

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:07:30 2014 No.4695554 File: 38 KB, 333x500, 1389150953583.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tuchman again

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:11:30 2014 No.4695571 File: 160 KB, 658x1000, 1395641471834.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4693707 Romer or Wilkinson?

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:13:30 2014 No.4695577 File: 230 KB, 952x1414, 1395641581346.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 02:15:30 2014 No.4695586 Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast is good, not a book but who cares.

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>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:17:30 2014 No.4695594 File: 14 KB, 300x300, The Human Phenomenon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:20:30 2014 No.4695604 File: 77 KB, 397x600, 1353175577986.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:21:30 2014 No.4695608 File: 57 KB, 390x597, Abraham Lincoln Brigade.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 02:21:30 2014 No.4695609 Best Genghis Khan book?

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:22:30 2014 No.4695612 File: 26 KB, 234x300, 1395642168211.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:23:30 2014 No.4695618 File: 78 KB, 467x708, 1395642231401.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4695609 This maybe.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:24:30 2014 No.4695621 File: 455 KB, 978x1500, Wickham Inheritance of Rome.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Mon Mar 24 02:25:30 2014 No.4695623

>>4695609
I would personally recommend a translation of The Secret Histories over a modern biography. The other historical accounts written during that time, like History of the World Conqueror, are good too, but you're probably going to have trouble finding a translation in English.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:27:30 2014 No.4695628 File: 35 KB, 317x475, The Boxer Rebellion - Preston.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4694090 Perfect followup to The Devil Soldier. ("Followup" is a compound word?)

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:28:30 2014 No.4695629 File: 27 KB, 315x475, The Black Jacobins.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:29:30 2014 No.4695633 File: 37 KB, 260x413, 1395642579960.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:32:30 2014 No.4695641 File: 33 KB, 260x390, 2940013492905_p0_v1_s260x420.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] At least the war is history

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:33:30 2014 No.4695647 File: 190 KB, 1000x500, 1395642829982.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:34:30 2014 No.4695650 File: 105 KB, 376x500, seven-pillars.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:35:30 2014 No.4695653 File: 626 KB, 909x1483, Psellus - 14 Roman Emperors.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:37:30 2014 No.4695657 File: 40 KB, 260x400, The Alexiad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 02:41:30 2014 No.4695669 >>4695554 Was just about to post this. This book got me into reading as a hobby, and sparked my interest in military history. Highly recommended.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Mon Mar 24 02:43:30 2014 No.4695674 File: 20 KB, 396x330, 1395643407654.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish I had all these. Clearly my reading queue is booked solid

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 04:35:24 2014 No.4695840 Any reccs for medieval history?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 04:36:24 2014 No.4695841 >>4695840 E Postan's work

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 17:24:41 2014 No.4697675 I wish i had more time so i could read all the books in this thread. Especially The Story of Civilization by Will Durant.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 17:27:41 2014 No.4697686 >>4695841 What does the E stand for? Do you mean M.M. Postan's work?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 19:13:41 2014 No.4698094 >>4697675 >tfw I have plenty of time but I'm too lazy to read much

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 19:33:42 2014 No.4698168 any good books on ww1?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 24 19:38:43 2014 No.4698185 >>4698168 See: >>4695554

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:41:16 2014 No.4699107 File: 66 KB, 450x450, The Road to Eleusis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:42:16 2014 No.4699110 File: 11 KB, 200x300, Rosa Luxemburg - Nettl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:44:39 2014 No.4699114 File: 31 KB, 432x648, 1395722641436.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:45:39 2014 No.4699118 File: 7 KB, 250x345, Trial-Of-Henry-Kissinger.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:46:39 2014 No.4699120 File: 23 KB, 222x346, Theodora - Bridge.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:47:39 2014 No.4699124 File: 162 KB, 750x1163, tear-down-this-myth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:52:39 2014 No.4699132
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>>4693908
>>4693920
>>4693937
>>4693952
>>4693967
>>4693991
>>4694017
>>4694033
>>4694059
>>4694090
>>4699114
>>4699118
>>4699120
>>4699124
Read these in addition to all those >>4693860
I think that's it for the relevant to this thread books.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:53:39 2014 No.4699136 File: 33 KB, 260x402, 1395723205150.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:54:39 2014 No.4699139 File: 61 KB, 318x442, Connections - James Burke.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:56:39 2014 No.4699146 File: 320 KB, 658x1000, 80140100189640L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:57:39 2014 No.4699153 File: 82 KB, 300x454, k8404.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4699146 Or is this the same book?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 25 00:59:39 2014 No.4699161 >>4699153 Have u really read all these?

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 00:59:39 2014 No.4699164 File: 89 KB, 520x790, 3586838_f520.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:02:40 2014 No.4699178 File: 232 KB, 600x914, 1389172523750.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4699161 Just the ones linked-listed here >>4699132 (Not Galeano. This is a book Chavez gave to Obama fyi) and here >>4693860 (Again, not The Pursuit of the Millennium)

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:06:40 2014 No.4699190
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>>4699161
The rest are haves, wants, and maybes that I just hold onto
<-Like this one. I already read a really thorough book on Venice. Why do I hang onto this one? *Shrugs*

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:07:40 2014 No.4699194 File: 52 KB, 276x400, 1389331298930.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4699190 Oh duh >.< It's a specific biography.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:08:40 2014 No.4699200 File: 25 KB, 249x392, LeGoff - The Birth of Europe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:10:40 2014 No.4699205 File: 14 KB, 200x300, 1395724215106.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:11:40 2014 No.4699212 File: 34 KB, 336x500, Memoirs of Hadrian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:13:40 2014 No.4699222 File: 75 KB, 500x753, prague_spring_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:14:40 2014 No.4699228 File: 70 KB, 400x600, 1395724494906.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:16:40 2014 No.4699231 File: 49 KB, 540x784, Lawrence-of-Arabia-Hero.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This came out right after the one I read. Oh well.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:17:40 2014 No.4699238 File: 69 KB, 329x500, 1395724638215.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:18:40 2014 No.4699241 File: 51 KB, 400x589, Goodwin - Team of Rivals.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:19:40 2014 No.4699245 File: 24 KB, 318x469, Herzen - My Past & Thoughts.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] In the middle of this lovely book too.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:21:40 2014 No.4699249 File: 31 KB, 323x500, Doyle - French Revolution.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:22:40 2014 No.4699252 File: 1.13 MB, 3212x1427, 1395724943436.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These are more history book I would hope.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:25:40 2014 No.4699266 File: 34 KB, 482x203, Isaac Deutscher - Trotsky bio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:27:40 2014 No.4699273 File: 133 KB, 314x475, Unruly Women of Paris.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:28:41 2014 No.4699278 File: 8 KB, 200x300, 1395725315977.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4699273

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:30:40 2014 No.4699281 File: 12 KB, 333x500, 2494315-L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:31:40 2014 No.4699286 File: 54 KB, 400x591, 1319084146234.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:32:40 2014 No.4699289 File: 128 KB, 400x600, Conquest of Bread.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:34:40 2014 No.4699298 File: 63 KB, 300x456, Demanding the Impossible.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 25 01:35:40 2014 No.4699299 >>4691811 -Robert Marks, The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative -Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:36:40 2014 No.4699303 File: 16 KB, 225x356, Russia book - Emma Goldman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Did I stray off the history theme a bit?

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:38:40 2014 No.4699314 File: 53 KB, 327x500, Last Call-Daniel Okrent.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I think that's about it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 25 01:38:40 2014 No.4699315 >>4699299 Also, I'm taking a course on world history op. So I can upload some of the articles we're reading on the subject if your interested.

>>	Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Tue Mar 25 01:42:41 2014 No.4699327 File: 57 KB, 289x450, 566065.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ah The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 25 03:05:39 2014 No.4699446 >>4698094 NEET?

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