Any other biographies out there on great leaders? Preferably military type leaders, i really enjoyed this one, great insight from childhood to death.

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Anonymous Thu Oct 8 19:54:46 2015 No.7210346 [Reply] [Original]

Any other biographies out there on great leaders? Preferably military type leaders, i really enjoyed this one, great insight from childhood to death.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:01:52 2015 No.7210365 File: 211 KB, 300x454, BcwPAgAAQBAJ.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7210346 I'm not huge on biographies, but I'm a sucker for Civil War books. This is one I enjoyed very much.

BrazilianImperialConservativeA(...) Thu Oct 8 20:04:55 2015 No.7210373

Please, DO NOT READ COMMERCIAL SHIT.
That said, there are many good biographies out there.
About Napoleon, read Bourriene Memoirs (finished yesterday, it is amazing.)
You should complement it with his letters/interviews in Santa Helena.
About Alexander, there is Clistenes and Ptolomy as good primary sources.
Autobiographies are good too.

Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:08:51 2015 No.7210388

>>7210365

thanks i'll check into it.

>>7210373

Commercial shit? Kind of vague but i think i get what you mean, i'll look up the alexander ones, autobiographies i'd take too i suppose don't mind either way, thanks. I've considered getting his memoirs from st helena but i hesitated when i saw he skewed the facts on a lot of things he said, should be interesting nonetheless.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:09:45 2015 No.7210390 File: 38 KB, 441x604, veni-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Caesar- Adrian Goldsworthy Augustus - Adrian Goldsworthy Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:15:18 2015 No.7210408 >>7210390 Look interesting especially the stalin one i hardly know anything about him, thanks i appreciate it.

BrazilianImperialConservativeA(...) Thu Oct 8 20:17:44 2015 No.7210417

>>7210388
Sorry for being not being clear, haha. I will clarify: most biographies published in the last decades are made by people trying to sell,. They are not the work of friends, relatives or rivals; they bear no real connection to the history they are telling.
Oh, noticed I made a mistake. It is not Clistenes, it is Calístenes/Callisthenes. It is not a biography per se, but a lost book that is the source of most others, like Plutarch Life of Alexander.

Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:21:18 2015 No.7210431

>>7210417

Of course i understand that, less about people who are actually interested in the character, of course you might disagree but the one i posted in the OP picture was fascinating, offered a relatively unbiased positive outlook on napoleon, helps that there's like 30,000+ letters of him published. I've enjoyed the biographies i've read far more then the fiction lately as what i'm reading seems a lot more important then fiction i suppose, thanks.

Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:23:46 2015 No.7210439

>>7210417
Name a biography of any ancient figures written by a close friend or relative. Plato's dialogues of Socrates does not count.

I love reading Plutarch and Cassius Dio and Arrian, but honestly reccomending a primary work to a casual or entry-level history buff is not the right way to go about it. The best thing about authors like Adrian Goldsworthy is that they can provide a summarization of several sources, compare and contrast, and introduce several recent discoveries to capitulate on the actual history or for impact on culture.

Not to mention most biographies were written hundreds of years after the individuals had died, so your argument suffers there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:47:31 2015 No.7210527 >>7210390 there's two books on Augustus by Goldsworthy which is the better one?

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 21:05:08 2015 No.7210582 >>7210373 Is there a translation of Bourrienne considered the best?

Anonymous Thu Oct 8 21:07:09 2015 No.7210594

>>7210373
>About Alexander, there is Clistenes and Ptolomy as good primary sources.

You have no fucking idea what you're fucking talking about; these sources do not exist anymore, and are only understood nowadays as they are reflected in Curtius, Arrian, and Diodorus Siculus.

Anonymous Thu Oct 8 21:30:09 2015 No.7210703

>>7210346
Mate this is your lucky day:

Robert Massie is amazing (Pulitzer winner)
> Peter the Great: His Life and World (indispensable, one of the greatest biographies ever written imo)
>Catherine the Great
Simon Sebag-Montefiore
>Court of the Red Tsar - (already mentioned but amazing)
>Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner.
Philip Dwyer
>Napoleon, Rise to Power/Citizen Emperor, a really fascinating bio that looks at myth making and propaganda both by and on behalf of Napoleon, really great research.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:24:54 2015 No.7211122 bump

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:27:26 2015 No.7211127 Not a military leader, but a political leader, no doubt: Robert A. Caro's Lyndon Johnson books are superb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:27:27 2015 No.7211128 >>7210703 Is the Stalin biography by Kotkin good? Or is Red Tsar the best?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 00:42:23 2015 No.7211283 Manstein:Hitlers Greatest General - Mungo Melvin

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 02:14:28 2015 No.7211446 Ulysses S. Grant's Autobiography Plutarch's Lives

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 02:28:11 2015 No.7211472 >>7211446 >tfw got the 2 volume Modern Library set of Plutarch's lives for $14 total at a used bookstore >tfw they were never even opened before feels bretty gud

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 03:34:46 2015 No.7211570

F.W. Kent- Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificent
>F. W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo's relationship to the arts, aesthetics, collecting,…
Got the pdf if anyone wants, haven't read it myself though

Filippo Strozzi and the Medici
He helped fund the Medicis in the early 16th century as they started transforming themselves into hereditary rulers of Florence. Also embezzled tons of money from the Florentine treasury and diverted it to Medici pope to fund his court and building projects there. Ironically, when the first official duke of florence, Cosimo I, came to power he was imprisoned and he killed himself in protest and has since been ironically remembered as the last "republican patriot".
http://bookzz.org/book/1260737/27c404

I've got plenty of history books on warfare that I can post on request but these are all I've got for biographies

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 05:26:49 2015 No.7211733 File: 125 KB, 1200x945, 6787655678.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7211570 Pls post the warfare books

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 05:44:23 2015 No.7211755

>>7211733
Yep, these all from old threads I've posted them in

btw, got any more qt gator pics?

ottoman/french/british/renaissance military history of all sorts
>>/lit/thread/S7047213#p7049045
history of the thirty years' war
>>/lit/thread/S6401252#p6406953
roman/late antiquity/early medieval history thread might have some books on warfare
>>/lit/thread/S6849002#p6850234

If you want even more of a selection go to:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/military-history
and click on a topic you like. You won't access the whole article but you can usually see the "general works" or "introductory works" to the subject which are usually the most accessible to the general history reader anyway. If you see a title you like go on bookzz. org and paste the title. They seem to have things 40-50% of the time. If that fails use a proxy and search on libgen, but I usually come up empty handed on libgen which is a bummer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 05:52:01 2015 No.7211766 File: 145 KB, 880x550, Alligator.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7211755 Thanks anon! I recently dropped $500 on books and I can't wait to drop another $500. I'll be set for a few years after this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 06:22:23 2015 No.7211808 Thanks for the recommendations everyone, some real great stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 06:26:47 2015 No.7211817 File: 62 KB, 315x475, big.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7210346 Try out this beast

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 08:56:04 2015 No.7212093 Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography - John Toland The Life of Cesare Borgia - Rafael Sabatini

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 12:50:51 2015 No.7212788 bummp

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 15:57:24 2015 No.7213501 Is this all that /lit/ has to offer?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 16:09:12 2015 No.7213528 >>7213501 I never thought anyone ever walked through those isles (biographies), let alone purchased and read books from them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 16:13:12 2015 No.7213541 >>7213528 well m8 some of the most interesting stuff happened in real life after all.

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 16:17:23 2015 No.7213554

Hijacking this thread for a book recommendation.

Do you guys know of any grand history books about the history of exploration? I mean a book which would talk about Marco Polo, Vasco de Gamma, Ibn Battuta, James Cook, David Livingstone, etc.

I found the book "pathfinders" but apparently it's guns germs and steel tier.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 16:20:07 2015 No.7213560 >>7210346 Marlborough: His Life and Times

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 16:24:05 2015 No.7213574 >>7211755 >history of the thirty years' war >no CV Wedgwood

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 16:24:06 2015 No.7213575 >>7210346 Has anyone read Young Stalin? I bought it years ago and kept meaning to read it but it kept slipping my mind. It's written by the same guy who did the court of the red tsar biography.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 16:26:40 2015 No.7213582 >>7213575 I tried reading the court of the red tsar but the prose is absolutely atrocious. Simon shitbag montefiore is a shitty writer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 17:56:05 2015 No.7213985 >>7213528 the lives some of these people lived would sound like fiction to regular people if they didn't know that it actually happened.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:04:47 2015 No.7214026 >>7213528 Childrens biographies of great figures are like 25% of what I read my kids at night

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:05:48 2015 No.7214030 >>7213554 Strongly recommend the Teaching Company Great Courses for this shit, there are so many exploration/discovery courses. There are torrents for that shit all over the internet

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:09:25 2015 No.7214045 >>7212093 Great recommendations. Also Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:11:15 2015 No.7214053 >>7214026 does it come off as almost myth to them?

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:13:55 2015 No.7214071

>>7213574
Someone does recommend it in the thread

I'd thought I'd post the biographies from the 30 years ward thread into this thread because of its relevance to OP's request

Barker, Thomas M. The Military Intellectual and Battle: Raimondo Montecuccoli and the Thirty Years’ War. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975.
>A fine introduction to an important but often forgotten or minimized figure from the later stages of the Thirty Years War—the Italian-born imperial general Montecuccoli—combines both his life story and an English translation of some of his important writings on the art of war.

Mortimer, Geoff. Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
>An attempt to distill reality from the myths surrounding this minor nobleman who, through his own abilities, rose to the position of commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire and became one of the greatest landowners of his generation, but whose fall from grace was as rapid as his ascent.

Pursell, Brennan C. The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years’ War. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003.
>More than just a biography of Frederick V, this work portrays the so-called Winter King’s actions and reactions to political issues presented him by his elevation to the Throne of Bohemia as stemming more from a constitutional rather than a confessional perspective.

Roberts, Michael. Gustavus Adolphus. 2d ed. London: Longman, 1992.
>The standard, positive appraisal of the career of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden as both a great military captain and one of the heroes of the Thirty Years War.
I've been told by a professor that this guy's books on Adolphus and Early Modern Sweden are masterpieces

Sturdy, David J. Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
>A study of the political careers and decision-making processes of the two French cardinals whose involvement in the Thirty Years War led to the ascendancy of France in western European politics of the 17th century.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:13:57 2015 No.7214072 >>7214053 It depends. My daughters really connected with Elizabeth I and Victoria because of the disney princess mindset. Shit like Abraham Lincoln, Roman Leaders, Atahualpa was definitely outside their comfort zone

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:45:48 2015 No.7214179

>>7213554
You can always read their writings directly. I think an attempt to discuss a grand history of exploration would be artificial because these people came from such different historical contexts. I'd say you'd be better off studying that context. Gama for example didn't just magically decide to sail around Africa. The Portuguese had been expanding trade along the coast of Africa for decades beforehand, bartering for gold and slaves as well as setting up sugar plantations on the uninhabited islands they encountered along the coast such as Ceuta, Azores, Cape Verde and Sao Tome (which buy the way, was the largest sugar producing island in the 16th century iirc)

anyway check these out if you're interested

Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
>Magisterial survey of the development of and interactions between two major empires in the Atlantic world that shows the extent to which the English Atlantic world grew out of the earlier example of the Spanish Atlantic empire.
http://bookzz.org/book/1198343/b17779

The Oxford Histories of the British Empire:
http://bookzz.org/s/?q=oxford+history+of+the+british+empire&t=0

Bethencourt, Francisco, and Diogo Ramada Curto, eds. Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400–1800. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
>Excellent set of essays by leading specialists in Portuguese expansion studies, covering a broad gamut of themes in a comparative scope, placing the Atlantic in a broader context.

Boxer, Charles Ralph. The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415–1815. The History of Human Society Series. New York: Knopf, 1969.
>Classic overview of Portuguese overseas expansion to Africa, Asia, and America, written with an eye for biographical detail, picturesque anecdotes, and sweeping conclusions. Although superseded in many respects by subsequent research and theoretical approaches to colonialism, Boxer includes useful insights to race relations, colonial administration, religion, and several other themes fleshed out in other works. This book was reissued by the Gulbenkian Foundation in 1991.

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:49:56 2015 No.7214201
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>>7213554
Just read pic related

http://bookzz.org/book/1241273/455759
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hemming_(explorer)

It was fucking great, and the author is a legit explorer of Peru and the Amazon basin.

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 18:57:57 2015 No.7214225

>>7214179
Gifford, Prosser, and William Roger Louis, eds. France and Britain in Africa: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Rule. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971.
>Gifford and Louis’s sequel to Britain and Germany in Africa 1967, this collection compares British and French colonial policy in Africa. Topics include the French and British imperial rivalry, comparative systems of administration, education, and economic development.

Hyam, Ronald. Britain’s Imperial Century, 1815–1914: A Study of Empire and Expansion. 3d ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
>An excellent introduction to the origins of Britain’s African empire, for students and general readers.

Dunn, Ross. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
>Revised edition of Dunn’s pathbreaking 1986 study. Essential reading for undergraduate courses on the medieval Islamic world and world history courses. New introduction and updated bibliographical references.
http://bookzz.org/book/2083689/d78cfd

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 19:18:13 2015 No.7214288 >>7214225 That Ibn Battuta shit looks great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 19:42:25 2015 No.7214378 While it would be a stretch to call him a great leader, Lucy hughes-Hallet autobiography of Gabiele D'Annunzio is brilliant. The italian poet/war hero/mini dictator who took over the city of fiume.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 20:53:25 2015 No.7214585 >>7214201 got anymore on the Spaniards?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 21:03:22 2015 No.7214625 >>7214288 http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0037.xml there's a lot more to choose, i was lost as to which one to post tbh

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 21:05:01 2015 No.7214632 >>7214378 wasn't he a cannibal too, and like a sexual deviant

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 21:17:50 2015 No.7214672 >>7214625 >http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com How have I not found this, Ive been going through wikipedia further reading and source notes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 21:19:38 2015 No.7214675 >>7210346 >Any other biographies out there on great leaders? No I don't think so OP, that's the only one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 21:22:41 2015 No.7214684 >>7210346 Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 21:23:00 2015 No.7214686 >>7210594 daily reminder that Curtius was a hack and Callisthenes deserved the fate he got

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 21:34:48 2015 No.7214711
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The Black Count. It's a relatively new biography about Alexander Dumas's badass father. It's a great read because the man was in the shitty situation of being a general during the Reign of Terror. My only complaint was that he babies the reader through some content just in case they don't get historical stuff that most educated people would already know.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:17:26 2015 No.7214846 >>7214686 Curtis Rufus wasn't a hack, he was just the roman equivalent of Perez Hilton, writing trash for patrician audiences.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:25:50 2015 No.7214884 File: 327 KB, 236x278, reign of terror best day of my life.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7214711 >It's a great read because the man was in the shitty situation of being a general during the Reign of Terror.

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Fri Oct 9 22:27:38 2015 No.7214892 >>7210346 Biographies? Idk. Read the Memorial of Saint-Helena. Never trust anything about Napoleon if written by an anglophone.

Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:28:33 2015 No.7214898

>>7214884
He wasn't involved in the guillotining. He was on the outskirts, first defending the borders then conquering and recapturing lands when Napoleon was doing his thing.

The higher ups constantly fucked around with the man actually because he refused to just kill entire villages when they commanded him to.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:29:31 2015 No.7214903 >>7214898 Is the French revolution the worst thing to happen in the history of modern Europe?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:30:37 2015 No.7214908 >>7214686 Explain?

>>	Tallis !!y+12CeFwYOo Fri Oct 9 22:30:58 2015 No.7214910 >>7214903 I don't know, do you know anything about it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:32:57 2015 No.7214924 >>7214903 Pretty clearly it's one of the best.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:35:53 2015 No.7214940 >>7214903 I thought good things came from it though, if only napoleon won.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:50:11 2015 No.7214994 >>7210346 Sea of Glory by Nathaniel Philbrick about Charles Wilkes and the U.S. Exploring Expedition. Many think Wilkes was Melville's inspiration for Capt. Ahab. Probably my all time favourite non-fiction, it's great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 22:51:51 2015 No.7215000 >>7214903 A bunch of people died for a few years, but it made a big impact in the political and social realms of Europe, so definitely not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 00:28:44 2015 No.7215214 >>7215000 What exactly happened?

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 00:35:19 2015 No.7215228

Frederick the Great by David Fraser

Bismarck and the Development of Germany: The Period of Unification, 1815 - 1871 by Otto Pflanze.

Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott

Charlemagne by Derek Wilson

Harun Al-Rashid and the World of a Thousand and One Nights by Andre Clot

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 01:32:39 2015 No.7215378 >>7215214 Can't you even wiki?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 01:36:28 2015 No.7215392 >>7215378 my little brother won't do it for me, all he is willing to do is write my posts for me

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 01:37:52 2015 No.7215398 I'm gonna piggyback off this thread. Anyone have suggestions for, or read any biographies on Asian leaders aside from Harun Al-Rashid? Maybe like, Oda Nobunaga, or something? Sikh/Punjabi warriors?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 01:44:40 2015 No.7215413 >>7215398 michael g tisdoll has a great work on Shike Ma Ter, hard to find though. obvious rec would be Grist's seminal bio of Obon (5th century Ethiopian prince, son of Dudu Oson).

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 01:57:49 2015 No.7215446 >>7215398 I too would like to know.

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 03:25:32 2015 No.7215611

>>7215446
>>7215398
check out the lists of entries on islamic and Chinese studies and click on any person they list there that you want to learn about. You should be able to get a list of general works that you can look up on bookzz
-http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/chinese-studies
-http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/islamic-studies

check out these books on indian warfare, one of them is from the british perspective but one of the articles lists a cambridge history of indian militaries from the 18th century that probably has what your looking for
-http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0145.xml
-http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0025.xml

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 05:04:17 2015 No.7215792 What's the best book on putin lads? Any interesting ones? He seems quite fascinating for a modern day leader.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 05:17:26 2015 No.7215823 >>7215792 in my country, this journalist...she is everything. I forget name but she is say to write "polyphonically," is that how you say in english?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:02:58 2015 No.7216379 >>7214686 why do you say that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:06:49 2015 No.7216385 Lots of great recs in here, thanks. Anyone got any good suggestions for bios of women?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:07:26 2015 No.7216386 >>7215792 The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:08:28 2015 No.7216389 >>7215392 tip-top allusion

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:13:47 2015 No.7216400 >>7210390 Read Augustus by Goldsworthy, was really good. Had feels by the end, Augustus was based

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:17:35 2015 No.7216406
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>>7210346
If you're at all interested in American history, check out Ron Chernow's biography on Washington, as well as McCollough's John Adams.

>>7210417
So modern biographies are inferior because they're not written by sycophants or smear artists? If anything, being removed from the drama surrounding certain people takes away from the subjectivity of the book and thus makes it more reliable.

Take Roberts' biography on Napoleon, for example: its basis are the thousands of letters written by Napoleon which were brought to light just in the past decade. I don't see why anything written by English and Bourbon sycophants would be better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:26:36 2015 No.7216427 >>7216389 thanks, i probably could have done it better tbh

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:29:12 2015 No.7216434 >>7216400 the is Augustus the first emperor of Rome and Augustus from revolutionary to emperor, which is the right one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:31:36 2015 No.7216442 File: 21 KB, 230x346, avgvstvs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7216434 Revolutionary to Emperor

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:34:24 2015 No.7216453 >>7214625 When a book is "acceptable for undergrads or nonspecialists" is that just a codeword for pop history, or does the mere fact of it being on that site make it a well regarded work (unless otherwise noted)

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 10:57:27 2015 No.7216500 >>7216442 what does this one have over the other?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 12:02:17 2015 No.7216654 >>7215228 Is that really the best bio on Charlemagne? why the fuck do i have to find street sign after street sign why isnt solving the captcha once good enough

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 12:14:14 2015 No.7216691 >>7216500 They are just renamings of the same book for different markets and not different books at all. This happened with his _How Rome Fell_ also, which is in itself a good book although not about great leaders at all.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 12:32:06 2015 No.7216750 >>7216385 I think there was a Catherine the Great by Robert Massie that was highly rec by an anon in this thread

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 12:56:34 2015 No.7216836

>>7216654
>Is that really the best bio on Charlemagne?
check out Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero
>why the fuck do i have to find street sign after street sign why isnt solving the captcha once good enough
switch to legacy captcha

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 14:02:50 2015 No.7217031 >>7216453 does the bio in OP's pic count as pop-history?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 14:14:39 2015 No.7217059 >>7217031 http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21618666-new-biography-paints-napoleon-tactical-military-genius-he-made-some-serious seems as though the author has made some serious effort as far as scholarship goes

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 14:30:32 2015 No.7217108 I'm no nazi, but there are some great biographies of adolf hitler. Despite everything, you have to admit he was a great leader, and he had a lot of good ideas.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 14:33:22 2015 No.7217115 >>7217031 Everything you can buy in a book store is pop history.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 15:16:01 2015 No.7217241 >>7217115 I was thinking this the other day, and then I saw schama and evans

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 16:33:18 2015 No.7217512 >>7217115 reallly everrrreerryy bookstore?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 16:35:19 2015 No.7217518 >>7217512 I mean like barnes & noble.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:06:01 2015 No.7217857 File: 409 KB, 1200x900, yoyo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OP here i bought some of the recs here or atleast one and it lead me to others, thanks lads, looking forward to starting these.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:15:35 2015 No.7217899 >>7217857 does the peter the great book have sewn signatures, or glued?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:20:21 2015 No.7217922 >>7217899 glued m8 it seems pretty solid, got it for $15 on amazon when it was 25 originally, thucydides i got for $15 off the original price as well, some good deals. Not sure how it'd hold up over time but it looks well made.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:21:23 2015 No.7217927 ty for the info

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:32:08 2015 No.7217958 >>7217857 YOU'RE WELCOME FOR MY CONSTANT BUMPING motherfucking streetsigns

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:32:57 2015 No.7217959 >>7217857 Damn that looks like a sexy version of Thucydides. It's a bit of a chore reading him without annotations, like most ancient works you're left in the dark about the 100s of character and place references

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:36:37 2015 No.7217967 Since this thread has been great, does anyone have some recommendations on early American history? Anything from colonial times through the civil war.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:39:21 2015 No.7217974 >>7217967 I'm assuming you've heard of/read McCullough's 1776

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 18:55:56 2015 No.7218035

>>7217974
I have

I should note that I read/have the following
Democracy in America
Affairs of Honor
Alexander Hamilton- Chernow
Henry Clay: The Essential American
The Great Triumvirate
Womens Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement 1830-1870
The presidency of Thomas Jefferson- McDonald
The Heathen School
Inheriting the Revolution
American Politics in the Early Republic
Liberty and Power: The politics of jacksonian America
A Wicked War- Greenberg
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 19:50:46 2015 No.7218215 >>7217857 >not the complete collection of Plutarch's Lives not gonna make it

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 19:51:46 2015 No.7218218 >>7217108 Post the best of what you know please

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 20:09:33 2015 No.7218285 >>7218215 I was gonna get roman lives by plutarch but didn't want to spend the money m80. one day it'll happen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 20:13:14 2015 No.7218297 File: 72 KB, 334x499, 61-gzCujuaL._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's one of the few books that talks about Franco's personal life in detail

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 20:20:36 2015 No.7218327

>>7218285
Just a heads up that I'm pretty sure that this (and its accompanying second volume) is the only complete collection of Plutarch's Lives:

http://www.amazon.com/Plutarchs-Lives-Modern-Library-Classics/dp/0375756760/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444522753&sr=8-1&keywords=plutarch+lives

But Waterfield is a great Greek translator, so your Oxford published copy should be a solid text, even if it's not complete. It'll have all of the real important stuff, that's for sure.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 20:39:20 2015 No.7218402 >>7218327 this says complete and unabridged does anyone know if its actually a good translation? http://www.amazon.ca/dp/1849025797/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2F2ZC0X7LMR72&coliid=I3JURSIPZ7369S

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 20:45:03 2015 No.7218425

>>7218402
No idea, but I wouldn't personally trust smaller/lesser known publishers with translations of ancient texts, especially considering that amazon.ca has the respected Modern Library editions available (both volumes) for less than that book you linked.

Also don't be scared to buy used; most used copies are in great shape, and some are basically brand new.

>>	New Hampshire Sat Oct 10 21:27:27 2015 No.7218569 >>7218035 American History makes my eyes roll back in my head, unless its Civil War

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 21:38:58 2015 No.7218601 >>7218297 Thanks, I was wondering about Franco

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 22:39:37 2015 No.7218785

>>7216385
take your pick (i could only find one free link though)

Doran, Susan. Elizabeth I. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
>Targeted at a wide readership, this work is nevertheless typically scholarly and informed, arguing among other things that Elizabeth’s gender was not as important a component in her political rule as generally assumed.

Haigh, Christopher. Elizabeth I. 2d ed. Profiles in Power. London: Longman, 1998.
>Not a biographical study so much as an examination of Elizabeth’s exercise of power. Short, well-written, and thematically oriented book revealing a flawed queen, her reign being “thirty years of illusion, followed by fifteen of disillusion.” Still, the political tests that she was forced to confront called upon considerable skill.

Levin, Carole. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2002.
>A series of examinations of various aspects of Elizabeth’s reign, from the religious settlement of 1559 to matters of diplomacy, marriage, and the succession issue that Levin argues defined her rule. Levin also differs from other scholars in analyzing the troubled 1590s from the perspective of Jews, Africans, the poor, and women accused of witchcraft.

Loades, David Michael. Elizabeth I. London: Hambledon, 2003.
>A biography that balances the woman and the queen, the personal life and the broader political persona, written by one of the leading scholars of Tudor England. Particularly strong on Elizabeth’s early years, Loades argues for the influence of key episodes, such as her imprisonment under Mary, in shaping her later positions as a woman who was very much in control.
link:
http://bookzz.org/book/947631/cfcae4

MacCaffrey, Wallace T. Elizabeth I. London: Arnold, 1993.
>An exploration of Elizabeth’s political behavior and the manner in which it shaped the politics of the age. Focusing the loyalties of her subjects upon herself, through extensive use of self-promotion, Elizabeth was also flawed in her sometimes contradictory traits of caution and impulsiveness, as well as in her political isolation, conservatism, and frequent inflexibility, most evident in her later years.

Neale, Sir John Ernest. Queen Elizabeth. New York: Doubleday, 1957.
>The classic but dated (and sometimes sentimental) treatment of Elizabeth, this volume utilizes contemporary works by John Foxe, Robert Naunton, and (most importantly) William Camden to present the queen in a highly complimentary and even loving light, as well as a masterful and subtle politician with formidable intellectual skills that contributed to the greatness of the Protestant nation.

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 22:42:23 2015 No.7218793

>>7218785
Neale, Sir John Ernest. Queen Elizabeth. New York: Doubleday, 1957.
>The classic but dated (and sometimes sentimental) treatment of Elizabeth, this volume utilizes contemporary works by John Foxe, Robert Naunton, and (most importantly) William Camden to present the queen in a highly complimentary and even loving light, as well as a masterful and subtle politician with formidable intellectual skills that contributed to the greatness of the Protestant nation.

Ridley, Jasper. Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue. New York: Fromm International, 1989.
>Argues that Elizabeth benefited from luck and her own basic political instincts rather than any deep wisdom or inherent greatness; it is nevertheless a positive account that attributes the reign’s success to her own decisions. Emphasizes, in addition, the role of religion in the queen’s domestic and foreign policy.

Starkey, David. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. New York: Harper Perennial, 2001.
>Based on a television program, this popular yet well-researched work takes Elizabeth’s life from her birth up to the first days of her reign. Particularly strong on Elizabeth during her sister Mary’s reign.

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 22:48:23 2015 No.7218815

>>7218793
Collinson, Patrick. The English Captivity of Mary Queen of Scots. Sheffield, UK: Sheffield History Pamphlets, 1987.
>A well-written examination of Mary’s deposition as queen in Scotland, in 1567, and her subsequent English captivity. Describes the colorful language and debates about her future that she provoked in Parliament and the shock that her captivity caused across Catholic Europe.

Guy, John. My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004.
>Working from original manuscripts rather than printed documents, Guy provides an astute and partisan reassessment of the Queen, arguing for her canny political skill (with her marriage to Darnley, for example—and even Bothwell, to an extent—constituting a rational political gesture) and her misfortunes as a case of bad luck more than personal failure.

Warnicke, Ruth. Mary Queen of Scots. Routledge Historical Biographies. New York: Routledge, 2006.
>A comprehensive, detailed and scholarly biography of Mary from a cultural rather than purely political perspective, with extensive discussions of her conspiracies against and relations with Elizabeth.
link:
http://bookzz.org/book/934195/7b69a7

Wormald, Jenny. Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure. London: George Philip, 1988.
>A recent critical reassessment of a much-studied monarch who, in the author’s views, failed not only in her rule but in her navigation of Scottish kinship structures and other informal bodies of power. Wormald discusses at length the role played by a vacillating Elizabeth in Mary’s life, conspiratorial dealings, and death, and faults Mary for her English ambitions at the expense of all else.

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:07:53 2015 No.7218887

>>7216453
it's not pop history. pop history has a tendency to sensationalize or simplify and is written by people who aren't always academic historians. these aren't necessarily bad things mind you. nothing wrong with reading an entertaining take on the past. doesn't necessarily have the rigor of an academic work though. Oxford bibliographies usually mention if they're meant to be popular works.

So in the description you've mentioned, the book can be read by the wider audience and college students, but it is written by an academic historian. It also means that they are usually respected synthesis of various secondary sources. But on top of that the work usually contains the writers' own original research and makes an argument based on his reading of his own primary sources and the secondary sources of others.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:10:17 2015 No.7218894 >>7218425 I'm a hardcover kind of fellow if you great my drift friend, at least for long books.

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:10:47 2015 No.7218898

>>7218887
to add, the work wouldn't only be read by undergrads but also by other historians who aren't specialized in that field. their work may somehow tie to that historical field though, but they don't have the time to read all the secondary scholarship so they read a respected, peer-reviewed synthesis to get an idea of that period

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:21:54 2015 No.7218925

>>7218898
one last point: if you check out the first book i posted in (>>7218785), you'll see that there can be a fine line between pop history and a general history respected by the academic community. that writer, for example, also seems to be making an original argument too.

>>7216654
found this:
McKitterick, Rosalind. Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
>A broad scholarly and highly respected look at the reign of Charlemagne, which covers also valuable insights into the writing of history and records in the Carolingian world.
link:
http://bookzz.org/book/820570/c63484

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:26:30 2015 No.7218937
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>>7218894
I totally understand. Look for older (up to early 2000s) editions of the modern library copy. Modern library has what appear to be 3 distinct stages in its publishing:

1. Green or red cloth-bound hardcovers (early to mid 20th century prints)
2. Grey cloth-bound hardcovers with taupe/grey dust jackets (up to early 2000s)
3. The paperbacks you see on shelves today.

Look for the cover in the attached pic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:28:37 2015 No.7218943 >>7218937 I checked a bit more and it looks like the hardcover from modern library is from 1992. Few copies on ebay and used book sites from what I could see.

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:31:28 2015 No.7218955

>>7217108
>>7218218
Griffin, Roger. Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
>Relates the fascist regimes to wider currents of cultural response to the seeming inadequacies of the modern world. Although initially suggests that modern culture was genuinely open and subject to contest, ends up implying that those fastening upon the myth of palingenetic national regeneration were those most subject to anomie and the need for rootedness: those least able to adjust to modernity.
link deleted on bookzz ;_;

Payne, Stanley G. A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
>Especially well organized. Includes a section on the pre–World War I cultural background and the impact of the war; substantial chapters on Italy and Germany; and further chapters on diverse aspects of fascism during the era of the two world wars. Offers comparisons with non-fascist authoritarianism in Europe during the same period and addresses the question of fascism outside Europe by the 1930s. Concludes with a briefer second part on interpretations, including his own views.
http://bookzz.org/book/958286/8f0185

Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. 2d ed. London: Fontana, 1998.
>First published in the United Kingdom in 1991, then in a somewhat different form in the United States in 1992. The author of what was long the classic biography of Hitler, first published in 1952, here expands his range to treat Hitler and Stalin in tandem, especially as their careers intertwined and each learned from, and responded to, the other. This second edition includes only the most minimal new front matter.
http://bookzz.org/book/1304496/cf2d40

Gellately, Robert. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
>A biographical approach to the emergence of the new political extremes during the era of the two world wars. Based partly on newly available sources, features the central, and negative, role of Lenin against the tendency in comparative studies to pair Stalin and Hitler. Stresses the linkages between Soviet and Nazi extremes overall.
http://bookzz.org/book/2377955/8519e5

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:33:07 2015 No.7218958 >>7218937 thanks man

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:35:05 2015 No.7218961 >>7218955 do you have a lot of good one's on fascism? It's always seemed interesting to me.

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:51:16 2015 No.7219019

>>7218961
I was able to get a huge article on fascism for free so I have tons of titles to post. I'm going to post all the ones related to hitler/nazism for now as requested by that one guy. However, I can tell you right now that Stanley Payne who I just posted is one of the most respected in the field and the book of his I posted is like 500 pages and could keep you occupied for a while! that said what in particular interests you about fascism? it will help me narrow down to recommend cause I have a huge section dedicated to fascist italy, another dedicated to nazi germany, and another to totalitarianism, just to name some

Geyer, Michael, and Sheila Fitzpatrick, eds. Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
>An especially illuminating set of essays, based on much new research, and genuinely comparative throughout as each is co-authored by a German and a Soviet specialist. The overall accent is on Nazi-Soviet differences, though the evidence often suggests new ways of considering commonality, even as “totalitarian,” freshly understood.
http://bookzz.org/book/539211/9e95f7

Kershaw, Ian, and Moshe Lewin, eds. Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships in Comparison. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
>An important collection of new essays from major scholars, although only a few are genuinely comparative. Still, the editors are among the leading experts in their respective fields, and they offer at least the beginnings of a comparative framework in their joint introduction and in the afterthoughts that conclude the volume. Among the German topics treated are radicalization and German exceptionalism as well as work, gender, and everyday life.

Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
>While featuring Hitler and Stalin, seeks to get beyond the older image of the omnipotent despot to set each within a wider system, entailing a complex interaction between leader and led. Also seeks a more historically sophisticated notion of totalitarianism, including political religion, and on that basis finds not simply submission and/or terror but a sense at the time that each regime was fully legitimate.

Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
>Challenges many long-standing assumptions and emphases in seeking to account for the murder of fourteen million people by the Soviets and the Nazis in a relatively confined area of east-central Europe from 1932 to 1945. Shows that more died by shooting or deliberate starvation than by gassing. Also features the interaction between the Nazis and the Soviets, especially as they provoked each other during the war. Includes many useful maps
http://bookzz.org/book/859486/cdcb99

Anonymous Sat Oct 10 23:57:36 2015 No.7219035

>>7219019
I think really this is
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
>Continued in Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000). Even while breaking no new conceptual ground, widely praised as magisterial. Thoroughly researched, balanced, and engagingly written. Will surely long remain the standard work on Hitler.

Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris
http://bookzz.org/book/1311212/6cd22f
Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis
http://bookzz.org/book/2272600/e58a5d

Stern, J. P. Hitler: The Führer and the People. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
>Innovative, imaginative study. Against the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss Hitler as a guttersnipe, argues that the sense of challenge and opportunity at work in Hitler’s political radicalism reflected a deeper sense of history, based on his war experience and his own reading, than had generally been recognized.

these three books are the only true biographies in the article. and rightfully so cause ian kershaw's biography is one of the most respected coming from the most famous nazi scholar there is

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 00:05:28 2015 No.7219054 >>7219019 fascist Italy and totalitarianism but any that you have would be very appreciated

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 00:15:19 2015 No.7219080

>>7218601
not to detract from that other guy's biography rec (stanley payne is goat scholar), but I'm going to post more books on Spain and biographies of other fascist/authoritarian leaders

Preston, Paul. Franco: A Biography. London: HarperCollins, 1993.
>Massive, detailed, but highly engaging, this is the standard biography of Franco. Concerned primarily to understand the elusive, enigmatic leader, but illuminates much about the Franco regime and its role in the period. Features Franco’s contradictions as ruthless, shy, and intellectually mediocre, yet genuinely distinguished as a soldier and skillful as a manipulator of power. Concludes that Franco came to believe the inflated propaganda about his own role as Spain’s savior but failed to build a lasting legacy.
http://bookzz.org/book/2271944/e10221

Pinto, António Costa. Salazar’s Dictatorship and European Fascism: Problems of Interpretation. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 1995.
>Shows that the Salazar regime was not fascist but deeply conservative, relying not on new mass organizations but on the Catholic Church and established provincial elites. Yet that regime was something new, neither merely authoritarian or dictatorial nor specifically fascist or totalitarian. Its novelty lay in its new cultural and socializing apparatus. Partly because of the new modes of institutionalization it developed, it was the longest lived of the new dictatorial regimes that emerged during the interwar period.

Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.
>Much important work on Vichy has been done in English, but this pioneering and highly influential work, first published in 1972, remains indispensable. More concerned with moral culpability than with the question of fascism. Finds the dynamic largely indigenous, with decisions not forced by the Germans. Vichy not a mere caretaker, but activist, seeking to remake France, repudiating the whole republican tradition. But concludes that, though Vichy entailed several phases, making generalization is difficult; it was more traditionalist than fascist.

Bischof, Günter, Anton Pelinka, and Alexander Lassner, eds. The Dollfuss/Schuschnigg Era in Austria: A Reassessment. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2003.
>Although an eclectic collection of essays, provides several angles on the complex Austrian case, which entailed competing (pro- and anti-German) fascist movements as well as an antidemocratic, Catholic-corporativist government prior to the German annexation of the country in 1938. Some characterize that government as “Austrofascism,” but most distinguish it from full-scale fascism. Tim Kirk’s essay “Fascism and Austrofascism” (pp. 10–31) provides an especially good point of entry.
http://bookzz.org/book/960501/e91045

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 00:17:55 2015 No.7219086

>>7219080
Deletant, Dennis. Hitler’s Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania, 1940–1944. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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Although he was not really a fascist, Antonescu’s career as leader of Romania during World War II is illuminating in its relationship, first, with the fascist Iron Guard, which he marginalized, and, second, with Hitler’s Germany, which, this study shows, especially valued Antonescu and the Romanian alliance. Even as it recognizes the overall complexity of the Romanian situation, it plays up Antonescu’s culpability, even his role as a war criminal as opposed to a patriotic national hero.

Hanebrink, Paul A. In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
>Although not focused on Hungarian fascism per se, useful for understanding the place of Ferenc Szálaszi and his fascist Arrow Cross Party in the complex cross-currents on the Hungarian right by the 1930s and on into the culminating wartime phase, leading to Hungary’s participation in the Holocaust in 1944. Although the Arrow Cross claimed to defend and revive Christian Hungary, it worried many church leaders, who feared it would politicize religion.
http://bookzz.org/book/1254111/eec280

Nagy-Talavera, Nicholas M. The Green Shirts and the Others: A History of Fascism in Hungary and Romania. 2d ed. Iaşa, Romania: Center for Romanian Studies, 2001.
>First published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1970. Highly sensitive not only to the distinctiveness and sensitivities of the region, but also to the differences between Hungary and Romania, with their disparate histories and religious traditions. Includes differences in the place of Jews in the two countries. Argues that, despite such differences, fascism in each case was not merely reactionary but revolutionary, reflecting strains in the modernization process, though it was romantic, irrational, and deeply unrealistic overall.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 00:28:30 2015 No.7219117

>>7219054
you got it fam

Bosworth, R. J. B. Mussolini. London: Arnold, 2002.
>An engaging, well-written biography, though with a definite point of view. Portrays Mussolini as the key to the Fascist regime’s superficiality, its lack of clear direction, and its failure seriously to mold the Italians. Still, usefully gets at some of the regime’s contradictions and ambiguities; most basically, how it could have appeared to be both conservative and radical at the same time.
http://bookzz.org/book/698383/d1533d

Segré, Claudio. Italo Balbo: A Fascist Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
>Engaging treatment of one of Italian Fascism’s most colorful figures. As party chief of Ferrara, Balbo was central to early squadrismo, then was one of the four “quadrumvirs” of the fascist March on Rome. He went on to serve as minister of the air force and governor of Libya, among other roles. He was also a pioneering aviator.
http://bookzz.org/book/1199541/bf0c79

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth. Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
>Offers a useful way of understanding the apparent Italian Fascist ambivalence about modernity and modernization. Goes on to focus especially on the fissurings, tensions, frustrations, and sporadic efforts at renewal of the regime’s later years. Especially helpful on how to locate the ongoing radical effort within the wider dynamic.
http://bookzz.org/book/891031/50dd18

Bosworth, R. J. B. The Italian Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives in the Interpretation of Mussolini and Fascism. London: Arnold, 1998.
>Strongly worded and controversial treatment focused on historiographical issues. Seeks especially to relate changing treatments of fascism to wider cultural currents from neoliberalism to postmodernism. Especially concerned to head off what he sees as tendencies to relativize the problem of fascism. Critical of everyone from De Felice and Gentile to Roger Griffin and Stanley Payne.

De Grand, Alexander. Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development. 3d ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
>A relatively conventional survey, somewhat limited in the range of interpretive possibilities considered. Still, it is reliable and a useful place to start, especially for undergraduates new to the topic.

Lyttelton, Adrian, ed. Liberal and Fascist Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
>A superior collection of essays, some treating the liberal period, but most dealing with fascism or the relationship between the liberal and the fascist periods. In addition to the essay by Emilio Gentile, which offers a convenient introduction to his position, the essays by Marcello De Cecco on the economy, Bruno P. F. Wanrooij on society, and Emily Braun on modernism in the arts are especially helpful.
http://bookzz.org/book/2220100/2e237b

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 00:38:20 2015 No.7219148

>>7219117
Gentile, Emilio. The Origins of Fascist Ideology: 1918–1925. Translated by Robert L. Miller. New York: Enigma, 2005.
>First published as Le origini dell’ideologia fascista: 1918–1925 (Rome: Laterza, 1975). An afterword was added to the new Italian edition of 1995 and is included in the present translation, which also offers a new eight-page preface. A pioneering study, inspired partly by the work of George L. Mosse on Germany, countering the long-standing tendency to dismiss Italian Fascist ideology. Features the role of the squadristi, violent young war veterans in producing a proto-totalitarian frame of mind.

Gregor, A. James. The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism. New York: Free Press, 1969.
>The first of four significant books, published from 1969 to 1979, making the strongly revisionist case that Italian Fascism, even starting with Mussolini, was intellectually rich, picking up on most innovative social thought of its time, as found in such thinkers as Georges Sorel, Vilfredo Pareto, and Robert Michels. On that basis Italian Fascism became the archetype for modern forms of radical political mobilization and developmental dictatorship.

Gregor, A. James. Mussolini’s Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
>Further develops the notions first outlined in Gregor 1969, though focused less on intellectual origins or background than on significant intellectuals within the regime, such as Alfredo Rocco, Sergio Panunzio, Ugo Spirito, and Camillo Pellizzi. Shows the development of Fascist doctrine over time, carrying the story through to Mussolini’s “Fascist Social Republic” of 1943–1945.
http://bookzz.org/book/691233/d56400

Roberts, David D. The Syndicalist Tradition and Italian Fascism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
>Traces the step-by-step evolution of a number of socialist intellectuals and labor organizers from the heterodox Marxist left to fascism, showing how their diagnoses and prescriptions gradually came to elude their Marxist framework, turning into what became fascism. Shows that the current was not quickly marginalized, as had long been assumed, but played a significant role in giving Italian Fascism an abiding radical thrust and, more particularly, a corporativist direction.

I can post a lot more on Fascist Italy but the amount is truly overwhelming. But if you want more works still, look at the following sub-sections and tell me which ones interest you. Then I'll post selected works from them.

>Emergence and Power Consolidation
>Domestic Policy and Experience
>Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ritual, and Spectacle
>Women, the Family, and Demographics
>Racism and Anti-Semitism
>Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and War

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 00:49:50 2015 No.7219184 >>7219148 Emergence and Power Consolidation Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and War Domestic Policy and Experience Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ritual, and Spectacle Women, the Family, and Demographics

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 00:50:51 2015 No.7219189 >>7219184 pls and thank you btw

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:01:01 2015 No.7219209

>>7219148
Griffin, Roger. The Nature of Fascism. London: Routledge, 1993.
>Innovative study proposing an “ideal type” intended not to specify some essence of fascism but merely to provide a heuristic tool, recognizing that every manifestation will be both typical and atypical. Takes as the mythic core of fascism “a palingenetic form of populist ultra-nationalism,” redeeming the nation from decadence (pp. 26, 38). But argues, at the same time, that the fascist revolutionary project, linked to dynamism and myth, was inherently unrealizable.
http://bookzz.org/book/2495339/3cbb39

Laqueur, Walter. Fascism: Past, Present, Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
>While providing a good concise account of classic European fascism, emphasizing what differentiates it from ordinary dictatorship, it is especially helpful in considering neo-fascism and what the author calls “post-fascism” in certain clerical regimes and in the new Right in post-communist Russia. Notes that whereas we should not expect some second coming of classic fascism, we can still learn from it in order better to understand novel forms.
http://bookzz.org/book/864898/b9028b

Sternhell, Zeev, Mario Sznajder, and Maia Asheri. The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution. Translated by David Maisel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
>Published as a sequel to the author’s Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986). Features French origins of fascist ideas, especially in the thinking of Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras, but goes on to contend that the fascist synthesis was more fully, and in one sense archetypally, developed in Italy. So the putative Italian embrace of French fascist ideology is the centerpiece.
http://bookzz.org/book/902755/57ea8e

Sternhell, Zeev. The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition. Translated by David Maisel. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
>Identifies a tradition of anti-Enlightenment thought going back to Herder and Burke, encompassing not only those such as Maurras and Sorel featured in earlier works, but also implicating more recent figures such as Friedrich Meinecke and Isaiah Berlin. In Sternhell’s view, not only did this tradition prepare the way for fascism, but also it continues to have a profoundly negative effect.

Griffin, Roger, ed. Fascism, Totalitarianism and Political Religion. London: Routledge, 2005.
>Six new essays, including one by Emilio Gentile carrying, importantly, beyond Gentile 2005 (cited under Italian Fascism and Fascist Italy: Antecedent Ideas and Ideology), in light of more recent work and his own further reflections. But also others on varied cases, including Romania, Germany, Britain, and the United States, as well as an especially valuable introduction by Griffin.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:08:58 2015 No.7219228

>>7219184
>>7219189
ayyy lmao you only left one of them out. I wish I had time to read all the works they all sound interesting as fug

>>7219209
Golomb, Jacob, and Robert S. Wistrich, eds. Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
>A collection of new and quite disparate essays. Most treat some aspect of Nietzsche’s influence on Nazism or the Nazi use of Nietzsche, but there is one essay on Nietzsche’s influence on Mussolini and Italian fascism.
http://bookzz.org/book/785548/51f50b

Gentile, Emilio. Politics as Religion. Translated by George Staunton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
>First published as Le religioni della politica: Fra democrazia e totalitarismi (Rome: Laterza, 2001). Probably the single most important work in the revival of interest in “political religion.” Clearly distinguishes between civil religion, pioneered in the United States, and political religion, as found archetypally in the antiliberal regimes of interwar Europe. Unlike civil religion, political religion claims a monopoly of power and seeks to penetrate all aspects of individual and collective life.

Burleigh, Michael. Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics from the Great War to the War on Terror. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
>Argues that the fascist and Soviet regimes all “metabolized” an abiding “religious instinct” for their own ends. Weaves political religion together with totalitarianism, often with particular force, though sometimes suffers from a restricted range of interpretative options in seeking to account for the combination. Also considers responses by the established religions to the instances of political religion in each case.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:13:29 2015 No.7219238 >>7219228 i already dislike people in general so i didn't see much reason to include the last one and again thank you for all this

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:22:56 2015 No.7219255

>>7219238
to me it would be depressing reading about racial policies and persecution, though I do find the intellectual ideas behind the policies very interesting. and no problem I always like sharing knowledge with /lit/ cause I know people will read some of these works

>Emergence and Power Consolidation

Lyttelton, Adrian. The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy, 1919–1929. 2d ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987.
>The first edition was published in 1973. Based on pioneering archival work, a detailed, authoritative account of the rise of Fascism from its inauspicious beginnings in 1919. Makes sense of the complex process through which it constituted itself as a new regime during the years from 1925 to 1929. The second edition adds a brief eight-page afterword relating the book’s finding to subsequent debates.

Snowden, Frank M. The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919–1922. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
>Especially effective in showing the interpenetration of agrarian/rural and industrial/urban sectors in the rise of Fascism, especially as the urban component became prominent in destroying the socialist labor movement in the countryside. Also shows the collusion of governmental officials in furthering the rise of Fascism. Suggests that in Tuscany the immediate task of crushing the labor movement and reimposing hierarchy and property rights was more central than elsewhere.
http://bookzz.org/book/849955/896593

Corner, Paul. Fascism in Ferrara, 1915–1925. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
>Widely admired study of the rapid growth of Fascism in a province pivotal to the rise of the movement on the national level. After two substantial background chapters on social divisions in the province, studies the process by which Fascism rapidly established effective control, destroying socialist organizations, as the liberal state essentially abdicated. Pinpoints who became a Fascist and why. Carries through to the stabilization of the regime early in 1925.

Cardoza, Anthony L. Agrarian Elites and Italian Fascism: The Province of Bologna, 1901–1926. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.
>Probes the conflicts among agrarian elites about how to respond both to longer-term structural changes and to the immediate challenge from landless day laborers and their socialist organizations during Italy’s postwar crisis. Links the turn to Fascism not to rearguard defense but to modernization efforts by the most advanced sectors among the landowners.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:29:10 2015 No.7219266

>>7219255
Bosworth, R. J. B. Mussolini’s Italy: Life under the Dictatorship, 1915–1945. New York: Penguin, 2006.
>Accents the regime’s insecurity, despite its bluster, and despite the undoubted measure of consensus it achieved by the mid-1930s. Considers how ordinary people got on with their lives, often defying the regime’s control, and often on the basis of factors such as family, locality, and religion that were not specifically Fascist. The organization is largely chronological, which makes sense in light of the regime’s changing accents.

De Grazia, Victoria. The Culture of Consent: Mass Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
>A pioneering study of the Dopolavoro, or Fascist leisure-time organization, taken as the popular or “low” culture of Fascism. Argues that though it reflected the paternalistic condescension of the leadership toward ordinary people, the organization developed a depoliticized underside that made possible a kind of passive support, furthering the regime’s ability to continue
http://bookzz.org/book/849952/af90dd

Gentile, Emilio. The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy. Translated by Keith Botsford. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
>First published in Italian as Il culto del littorio: La sacralizzazione della politica nell’Italia fascista(Rome: Laterza, 1993). Versus moralistic denunciation or caricature, seeks to take seriously the uses of liturgy, ritual, and symbols by the Fascist Party to create a “new man” in Fascist Italy. Argues that the effort had significant, if uneven, results. Critics have charged that Gentile takes the effort too seriously and thus tends to homogenize, glossing over the regime’s many internal conflicts.

Pollard, John F. The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929–1932: A Study in Conflict. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
>Shows how the Fascist regime and the Catholic Church misunderstood each other even as they came together with the Concordat and the Lateran Pacts of 1929. Expecting the church now to serve as a pillar of the Fascist regime, Mussolini was disappointed as the church maintained its distance—and independence. In the cat-and-mouse game that ensued, the regime and the church were sometimes allies but often rivals.
http://bookzz.org/book/905127/4f53cb

Sarti, Roland. Fascism and the Industrial Leadership in Italy, 1919–1940: A Study in the Expansion of Private Power under Fascism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
>Remains fundamental on the complex relationship between big business and the Fascist regime. Shows that business leaders were concerned primarily to retain their independence, but that business pressures thus restricted the development of corporativism during the 1930s. Accents pragmatism as opposed to ideology in the regime’s economic innovations of the 1930s in response to the Great Depression.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:31:27 2015 No.7219269 File: 34 KB, 451x692, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7210346 The thing he loved so dearly, fucked him and millions of others over time and time again.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:34:36 2015 No.7219276

>>7219266
the previous post was on Domestic Policy and Experience by the way. Here is one final work from the section

Talbot, George. Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922–43: Policies, Procedures and Protagonists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
>Concerned with censorship in the widest sense, not only proscribing but proactively fostering behavior in conformity with the regime’s totalitarian aims. Although limited on the nature of those aims, usefully illuminates modes of inducing conformity, including subtle but effective pressures toward self-censorship. Offers a convincing assessment of the effort’s overall impact and effective comparisons with Nazi Germany.

>Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ritual, and Spectacle

Berezin, Mabel. Making the Fascist Self: The Political Culture of Interwar Italy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
>Starting with a case study of Verona, argues that Fascism replaced rational discourse “with the primacy of feeling and emotion” (p. 29), that its coherence was not in its ideology but in its style and emphasis on action. But while illuminating on the place of ritual, it is one-sided in stressing style and aesthetics at the expense of the written word and it is often simplistic in assessing Fascism’s ideological goals.

Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta. Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
>A sophisticated, provocative study arguing that, by exciting the senses yet denying sensual pleasure and private enjoyment, the regime desensitized individuals, leaving them disembodied, significant only as raw material to be molded by the Duce as artist-politician. Critics have found an overreliance on recently fashionable interpretive categories at the expense of engaging what the responses in question meant to the Fascists.

Fogu, Claudio. The Historic Imaginary: Politics of History in Fascist Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.
>Complex, ambitious study of the place of Italian history in the self-understanding and self-representation of Fascism. In sharing the wider “culturalist” focus on “ritual-and-image-politics,” the author shows, primarily on the basis of close readings of Fascist historical exhibitions, how the regime sought to give the past visual presence. On that basis, he claims to delineate a deep rhetorical structure underlying Fascist ideology.
http://bookzz.org/book/2577001/89c638

Lazzaro, Claudia, and Roger J. Crum, eds. Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
>An illuminating, well-illustrated collection of essays on the regime’s uses of the Italian past to promote a specifically fascist visual culture. Includes articles by, among others, Emily Braun, Claudio Fogu, Diane Ghirardo, D. Medina Lasansky, and Jeffrey Schnapp, each of whom has also done other major work on the topic.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:41:29 2015 No.7219295

>>7219276
Painter, Borden W., Jr. Mussolini’s Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
>Relatively brief, engaging, and well-illustrated study of how projects of the regime changed the look and fabric of the Eternal City. Provides a good sense of the complexity of the Fascist infatuation with “Rome,” and shows how questions about excavation, preservation, restoration, and building anew meshed with questions about Fascism as modernizing.

Schnapp, Jeffrey T. Staging Fascism: 18 BL and the Theater of Masses for Masses. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.
>Focuses on one noted Fascist effort at spectacle—in Florence, before twenty thousand spectators in 1934—to argue for the centrality of spectacle to Fascism overall. Finding Fascist ideology a tissue of contradictions, argues that through aesthetic overproduction the regime sought to mask and compensate for its unstable ideological core. Good on the wider uses of machinery, technology, and the media in the Fascist enterprise.

Spackman, Barbara. Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
>Assuming that the content of Fascist ideology can be taken for granted, argues that we must study Fascist rhetoric to grasp how the ideology actually functioned. Although this case for the importance of rhetoric, including the intensification of masculinist themes, is compelling, it may be too quick in taking Fascist ideology as at once unproblematic—its content given, transparent—and instrumental.
http://bookzz.org/book/830786/802f40

Stone, Marla Susan. The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
>Shows that artists had access to extensive funding free of stylistic directives as long as they accepted the Fascist state as patron. The result was pluralism, with room for modernist experiment, for most of the Fascist period, but cultural policy evolved as part of the wider evolution of the regime, and restrictions accompanied the turn to imperialism and the Nazi alliance.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:51:30 2015 No.7219324

>>7219295
>Women, the Family, and Demographics

De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
>Highly influential study. While giving due attention to the regime’s traditionalist and anti-emancipationist policy toward women, it is especially nuanced in exploring how women negotiated from within that framework. Shows how in some spheres they did not feel marginalized but empowered, even influential within Fascism. Also good in asking what was specifically Fascist in women’s experience, in light of wider social changes taking place in Italy.
http://bookzz.org/book/1204855/98f33f

Horn, David. Social Bodies: Science, Reproduction, and Italian Modernity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.
>Innovative, sophisticated study combining the perspectives of anthropology, cultural studies, and feminism to show how reproduction became a social issue in Italy, bound up with wider assumptions about the scope and need to manage the social sphere. This direction was by no means confined to the Fascist era, but Mussolini’s regime embraced it with particular enthusiasm, developing interventionist government programs to promote fertility and welfare.

Iazzi-Pickering, Robin, ed. Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
>Influential set of new essays by US-based scholars reflecting the interest in gender and women’s studies gathering force at the time. Some are relatively specialized, while others address larger questions concerning the role of gender in Fascist ideology and practice.
http://bookzz.org/book/2518251/33fd03

Ipsen, Carl. Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
>Balanced, comprehensive, and well researched, the standard work in English on Italian Fascist demographic policy. Features the overall natalist effort, showing how the regime sought to mold public opinion in accordance with natalist policy. Relates natalism convincingly to wider ideological aims and shows how population policy reflected the tension between traditionalist and modernizing impulses within Fascism.

Quine, Maria Sophia. Italy’s Social Revolution: Charity and Welfare from Liberalism to Fascism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
>Especially useful in tracing continuities and departures in the transition from the liberal to the Fascist regime. Takes seriously the Fascist effort to mold a more substantial welfare policy, especially in support of childrearing and the family, but also notes limitations in practice. The author has also contributed a useful comparative study of population politics in the fascist and democratic countries published in 1996.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:56:31 2015 No.7219332

>>7219324
Snowden, Frank M. The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900–1962. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
>Includes a chapter on the Fascist period featuring the import of eugenics in the population engineering that accompanied the clearing of malaria from certain areas. Seeks to distinguish from Nazism, with its accent on Aryan racial purity, but quick to conflate a concern with “racial health” with racism. Still, a useful corrective to the long-standing neglect of the eugenic impulse in Fascist Italy.
http://bookzz.org/book/884839/9a46e0

>Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and War

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, and Mia Fuller, eds. Italian Colonialism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
>A collection of previously published essays, from as far back as 1987, though most are more recent. Covers diverse aspects of the Italian colonial experience in both Libya and East Africa. Includes a brief but helpful introduction by the editors.

Fuller, Mia. Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities, and Italian Imperialism. London: Routledge, 2007.
>Treats the spirited debates and the practical accomplishments in architecture, housing, and urban planning in Fascist Italy’s colonial empire. Shows that questions about modernism, past models, and Italian distinctiveness were at issue, but also that the colonial setting often introduced complicating factors that intersected in unforeseen ways to reveal underlying tensions in Fascist practice.
http://bookzz.org/book/701145/29b484

Gooch, John. Mussolini and His Generals: The Armed Forces and Fascist Foreign Policy, 1922–1940. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
>Well-researched study, especially valuable in treating Mussolini’s interaction with the three Italian armed services—army, navy, and air force—over the whole trajectory of the Fascist regime up to its intervention in the war in 1940. Concludes that it was not bluff or mere incompetence but a combination of individual and institutional failures that doomed the Italian military effort.

Knox, MacGregor. Mussolini Unleashed, 1939–1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy’s Last War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
>The first book of the leading English-language student of Mussolini’s foreign policy and war making. Finds in Mussolini an abiding expansionist zeal that finally could find an outlet thanks to contingencies on both the domestic and the international levels by the end of the 1930s. Critics have found Knox’s approach unduly teleological.
http://bookzz.org/book/927616/1dd725

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 01:59:29 2015 No.7219341

>>7219332
Knox, MacGregor. Hitler’s Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Based on a thorough mastery of both Italian and German sources, seeks to account for Fascist Italy’s disastrous performance in World War II, especially in comparison with Nazi Germany. Knox offers little on wartime politics and society, and even relatively little on Mussolini, because he finds the key to the failure in inadequacies in Italian military culture and military institutions that long antedated fascism.
http://bookzz.org/book/906986/46987e

Mallett, Robert. Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933–1940. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
>In opposition to those who stress contingent circumstances and Mussolini’s quest for a balancing role, points to not only Mussolini’s abiding ambitions for territorial expansion, but also the scope for initiative he managed to achieve. Argues that though Mussolini was not forced into alliance with Nazi Germany by the actions of the other powers, his relationship with Hitler was acrimonious, with much duplicity on both sides.

Rodogno, Davide. Fascism’s European Empire: Italian Occupation during the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
>Treats both policy and practice in the territories under Italian occupation and highlights Italian weakness vis-à-vis Germany and the discrepancy between Italian ambitions and accomplishments. Even as he discerns mostly dedication, enterprise, and adaptability among those implementing Italian policy, the author tends to conflate Italian and German practices, with the differences explained away in instrumental or pragmatic terms.

Williams, Manuela A. Mussolini’s Propaganda Abroad: Subversion in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, 1935–1940. London: Routledge, 2006.
>Covers a broad geographical arc from India to Yemen to Algeria, but focuses primarily on Palestine and Egypt, arguing that Italy’s Middle Eastern ambitions were far more considerable than had been recognized. But also reveals telling contradictions in the Italian propaganda effort as the regime practiced overt imperialism while also claiming to be on the side of native peoples against the more established colonial powers, Britain and France.
http://bookzz.org/book/816879/7aa19d

thats all for italian fascism

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 02:25:00 2015 No.7219390

>>7219341
I have to ask, since I've seen (what I presume to be) your posts in other threads: Have you read these texts that you post about? Are you recommending them from personal experience, or trawling through the topics currently at hand for the topic in question, simply putting forth possible texts to explore?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 02:38:20 2015 No.7219423 >>7219390 no it would be impossible to read all these in my lifetime even; i'm a very slow reader. I get the recommendations from articles on oxford bibliographies and I post them in history threads whenever people request anyhing

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 02:45:08 2015 No.7219446 >>7219423 So, uh, is there any on American history?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 02:49:37 2015 No.7219460 >>7219423 >articles on oxford bibliographies As in references listed in books published by Oxford press?

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 02:55:25 2015 No.7219473

>>7219446
I have some access to articles on the colonial period and American revolution. I'll post some here in a sec
also try:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books/americas#wiki_north_america
one of their recommendations is the oxford history of the united states series. you can get them on bookzz for free. I was personally reading Empire of Liberty (which covers 1776-1815), which is 800 pages, and it was really interesting but I have yet to finish it

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 02:57:33 2015 No.7219478 >>7219460 no the oxford bibliographies website. I've posted links to the site throughout this thread check em out

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:05:53 2015 No.7219509 >>7219473 thanks bruh, I appreciate it

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:14:11 2015 No.7219540

>>7219509
no problem

here is the article on the American revolution. Tell me if you're interested in any of the sections and I'll post some of the works listed in them

General Overviews
Primary Sources
Comparative French and American Revolutions
The Revolution as an Atlantic Event
Imperial Relations before 1776
Causes of the Revolution
Britain and the American Revolution
Intellectual and Political Thought
Regional Studies
The War of Independence
Gender
Native Americans and African Americans
The Making of the Constitution
Revolutionaries
The American Revolution and the Wider World

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:19:27 2015 No.7219564

>>7219540
>General Overviews
>Imperial Relations before 1776
>Causes of the Revolution
>Britain and the American Revolution
>Intellectual and Political Thought
>Regional Studies
>The War of Independence
>The Making of the Constitution
>Revolutionaries

would be great thank you very much

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:34:59 2015 No.7219596

>>7219564
I'm going to avoid bookzz links to be more efficient, but if a book sounds interesting by all means go on bookzz yourself and past the title into the search

>General Overviews

‣Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. Rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
>Concise and lively summary of the cause and consequences of the Revolution. Takes a strongly Progressive interpretative line.

‣Greene, Jack P. “The American Revolution.” American Historical Review 105 (2000): 95– 109.
>Written as part of a forum on 18th-century Atlantic revolutions. Argues powerfully for seeing the American Revolution as a settler revolt with 17th-century roots. Summarizes many years of scholarship by a leading historian of the Revolution. ‣McCullough, David.

‣McCullough, David. 1776: America and Britain at War. London: Allen Lane, 2005.
>Enormously popular and influential narrative account of the first year of the American Revolution. Framed within the context of US rather than Atlantic history.

‣Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763– 1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Volume 3 of the Oxford History of the United States.
>This work is mostly narrative and is an extensive detailing of the events of the American Revolution that favors a neo-Whiggish interpretation of events.

‣Nash, Gary B. The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America. New York: Viking, 2005.
>A synthetic account of the Revolution from the bottom up that shows the Revolution was important at all levels of society and also that it provoked profound social change.

‣Wood, Gordon S. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1993.
>The most important recent book on the Revolution, by a major practitioner, that asserts that the most important consequence of the Revolution was a transformation in American attitudes toward authority.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:39:29 2015 No.7219603 File: 58 KB, 579x229, amrev1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219596 actually found a better way http://bookzz.org/book/1212617/97821f

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:43:25 2015 No.7219615 File: 93 KB, 580x433, amrev2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219603 posting them in order + if they're available scratch http://bookzz.org/book/832029/e0d3ce

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:44:40 2015 No.7219618 File: 72 KB, 670x262, Amrev3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219615 http://bookzz.org/book/2369587/982c84

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:46:44 2015 No.7219623 File: 84 KB, 654x328, amrev4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219618 marketplace http://bookzz.org/book/910985/dedab4 struggle for power http://bookzz.org/book/2161727/e84b67 resistance to revolution http://bookzz.org/book/2361448/121fc6

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:49:42 2015 No.7219636 File: 75 KB, 657x321, amrev6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219628 making and unmaking of empires http://bookzz.org/book/972852/aee98d

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:52:37 2015 No.7219642 File: 70 KB, 687x285, amrev7.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219636 Dec: Global History http://bookzz.org/book/855068/6a3e45

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 03:55:47 2015 No.7219650 File: 50 KB, 668x212, amrev9.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219645 rebels rising: http://bookzz.org/book/1101516/2dba57

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 04:02:08 2015 No.7219663 File: 129 KB, 650x545, amrev11.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219657 sealed with blood http://bookzz.org/book/995082/3c2c99

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 04:06:46 2015 No.7219677 >>7219669 Taming Democracy http://bookzz.org/book/911078/21095a a revolution in favor of government http://bookzz.org/book/906145/7fdcc6

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 04:08:03 2015 No.7219679 File: 145 KB, 663x608, amrev13.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219677 forgot pic

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 04:12:10 2015 No.7219692 File: 106 KB, 673x457, amrev15.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219682 Last section: inheriting the revolution: http://bookzz.org/book/925398/8b14bd founding fathers reconsidered http://bookzz.org/book/905621/cf416e

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 04:15:52 2015 No.7219700 File: 334 KB, 1162x850, 1418055374498.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7219692 Dude I fucking love you It's people like you that make this board worth coming to. Please never leave.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 04:18:52 2015 No.7219705 >>7210346 I thought his book was called napoleon the great. I read it this summer, great book. Could also recommend Peter Englunds Napoleon a political life

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 04:33:48 2015 No.7219734

>>7219700
thanks! I chuckled a little at the pic btw

I've been lurking /lit/ for a long time and I've learned a lot from here, despite how everyone talks shit about this board. So I've been posting books on here ever since I discovered oxford bibs and how to download books free from libgen and bookzz. When I used to visit /mu/ I did the same too. It's a way for me to give back to 4chan and elevate board culture

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 05:28:07 2015 No.7219843 How would one access this thread after it's archived? I'd like to check back on the based Anon's recs from time to time.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 05:33:54 2015 No.7219845

>>7219843
type in "lit archive" into google and click the first link. You can search posts and threads by words, so you can easily identify this thread by such words as fascism, mussolini or totalitarianism, words that are not used on /lit/ as often as you might think

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 05:35:20 2015 No.7219849 >>7219845 in fact I did typed in "fascism" into the archive and this thread has already been archived, anon

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 05:47:08 2015 No.7219861 >>7214684 Second, great read to burn through

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 05:54:47 2015 No.7219876 >>7219845 Thanks. :3

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 10:53:21 2015 No.7220689 I'm the greatest

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 11:04:54 2015 No.7220727 >>7218925 >>7218898 >>7218887 Thank you, that is most helpful. I am always wary of falling into the pop history trap.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 11:09:20 2015 No.7220735 >>7219269 This book is fantastic. Here it is. It is however so biased, that I almost want a neutral response to it. Bitter Harvest: The Great Betrayal and the Dreadful Aftermath https://filetea.me/t1sCLIyrRRxSbOxcCYs5VGS3w

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 11:10:45 2015 No.7220740 >>7219734 To be fair, /nonfic/ jerkoff threads are not representative of this shitty board.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 11:57:53 2015 No.7220919 >>7218297 Got any others on spain?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 12:58:59 2015 No.7221145 >>7219269 do have any about Rhodesia?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 13:59:54 2015 No.7221378 Who is the greatest military leader?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 14:03:29 2015 No.7221402 >>7221378 was*

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 14:12:38 2015 No.7221451 >>7221378 I'd probably say Napoleon or Julius Caesar, but most here will probably say some obscure bullshit like Subutai or Tran Hung Dao

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 14:18:25 2015 No.7221492 >>7221451 Napoleon was good in his early years, but the longer into his campaign and career he got, the sloppier he became. Basically he just started relying heavily on his artillery IIRC

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 14:43:30 2015 No.7221606

>>7221492
To be fair he always had a thing for artillery use, since that was his original branch in the military.

Agree that he got sloppy, but I would impute that to the growing burden of controlling all of Europe, rather than just favoring one tool over another.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 14:50:00 2015 No.7221629

>>7221492
Basically. He was still an apt commander, even as late as Waterloo. He just should've retired around 1810-1811, but hindsight is 20/20, and who else would've been able to take his place while maintaining French supremacy over the continent? If they reverted back to a Republic, the Coalition would see it destroyed; if they had the Bourbons forced on them again, endless upheaval. He knew he was across the Rubicon, he knew he was the only man up for the job, and he knew that the French people would never allow themselves to be squeezed back into aristocracy and feudalism.

Also he always relied heavily on artillery, even as early as Toulon and the Royalist Uprisings in Paris

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 14:54:14 2015 No.7221651 >>7221378 Churchill certainly argues in favor of Marlborough, but Napoleon or Alexander both faced massive armies and certainly knew how to exploit victories.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 14:56:45 2015 No.7221663 >>7219086 Anymore books on romanian Fascism and the legionnare movement?

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 15:19:06 2015 No.7221728

>>7221606
>>7221629
I'm not talking down on him, mind you guys. He is by far one of my favorite leaders in history (barely edged out by Louis XIV imo), but as a military tactician I have trouble seeing anyone who surpasses him. I just wanted to point out that Napoleon had a period were he started to falter.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 15:29:23 2015 No.7221758 >>7221728 >Louis XIV know any good bios on him?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 15:34:29 2015 No.7221772 >>7221758 Not off the top of my head but google tells me that the Memoirs by Saint-Simon are free ebook on Amazon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 15:37:43 2015 No.7221784 >>7221772 I'm a physical type of guy if you get my drift friend.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 15:42:54 2015 No.7221797 File: 38 KB, 600x450, 1444592574544.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7221784 I gotcha

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 16:53:32 2015 No.7222098 >>7221797 ayy lmao

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:02:22 2015 No.7222408

>>7221663
i do

Haynes, Rebecca, and Martyn Rady, eds. In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe. London: I. B. Tauris, 2011.
>Eighteen new essays, almost all focused on an individual figure. Although one Italian and one German are included, the others treat a wide range of significant individuals from elsewhere, including, among others, the Hungarians Gyula Gömbös and Ferenc Szálasi, the Romanians Corneliu Codreanu and Ion Antonescu, the Czech Konrad Henlein, and the Slovak Jozef Tiso. Some are widely considered fascist, whereas the status of others remains controversial. Haynes’s introduction seeks common themes.

Riley, Dylan. The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy, Spain and Romania, 1870–1945. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
>A sociological examination of Italy, Spain, and Romania, asking why some countries that had experienced liberal democracy ended up turning to what the author takes to have been fascism. Argues that modes of interface between associational growth in society and the modes of parliamentary government were decisive, leading in these three cases to an authoritarian, technocratic alternative to electoral democracy.

Sugar, Peter F., ed. Native Fascism in the Successor States, 1918–1945. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1971.
>Includes two new essays each on Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia—the states that resulted from, or were transformed by, the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian (Habsburg) Empire in 1918. Stresses the homegrown quality of fascism in the region as opposed to the imitation of Italy or Germany. This volume was influential when published and, though written during the Cold War period when access to sources was often problematic, still provides many insights.
http://bookzz.org/book/925569/4be794

Iordachi, Constantin, ed. Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2010.
>Mostly excerpts of previously published works by major authorities, but brings them together conveniently. Also includes some complete essays. Among the most notable are Ian Kershaw’s “Hitler and Uniqueness of Nazism,” first published in 2004, and Iordachi’s own, written for this volume, and featuring political religion and the fascist embrace of Christianity in the Romanian case.
http://bookzz.org/book/824038/2e1694

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:31:23 2015 No.7222599

>>7221758
here are some bios

Sturdy, David. Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.
>A concise survey of the king and his reign. In seven thematic chapters, Sturdy surveys the historiography and provides a clear account of key aspects, such as Louis XIV’s methods of government. An ideal introduction to Louis XIV for undergraduates.

Wolf, John. Louis XIV. New York: Norton, 1968.
>An ambitious scholarly biography of Louis XIV. Wolf’s coverage is comprehensive, but he is best on the military and foreign policy. Wolf largely agrees with the traditional view of Louis XIV as a great modernizing state builder.

Lossky, Andrew. Louis XIV and the French Monarchy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Described by the author as a “political biography,” this work is best on Louis XIV’s foreign policy (Lossky’s area of research) and handling of religious affairs. Argues that Louis XIV made serious mistakes in his youth but learned to wield his power more effectively as he grew older.

Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen. Translated by Anne Carter. New York: Vintage, 1972.
>A translation of Louis XIV et vingt millions de Français (Paris: Fayard, 1966), this work takes an Annales school approach to Louis XIV’s reign. Goubert argues that most of the king’s policies were failures in the face of unfavorable and far-more-powerful social, economic, and demographic forces.

Bluche, François. Louis XIV. Translated by Mark Greengrass. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.
>Translation of the thousand-page French edition (Paris: Fayard, 1985). Bluche mounts a firm defense of the king, justifying or minimizing many of his most controversial decisions (for example, the devastation of the Palatinate in 1688). While Bluche uses many primary sources and secondary studies in French, he completely ignores non-French works.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:38:29 2015 No.7222635

>>7222599
I'll throw in some wider historical surveys for good measure:

Doyle, William, ed. Old Regime France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
>The best introduction to the subject for undergraduates. This study is comprised of nine thematic chapters by experts on such subjects as society, the economy, and France overseas. One chapter focuses on Louis XIV. The work’s scope places his reign in the context of the Old Regime’s rise and fall.
http://bookzz.org/book/1091542/672494

Jones, Colin. The Great Nation: France from Louis XIV to Napoleon, 1715–1799. London: Penguin, 2002.
>This readable survey of the 18th century, aimed as much at a general audience as a scholarly one, begins with a wide-ranging discussion of the legacy that Louis XIV left France in 1715. It argues persuasively that Louis XIV largely set the tone politically for his successors.

Briggs, Robin. Early Modern France 1560–1715. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
>First published in 1977, this survey focuses on political history while also having useful chapters on society, the economy, and beliefs and culture. It hews to the traditional interpretation of the reign of Louis XIV as the culmination of absolute monarchy.

Bercé, Yves-Marie. The Birth of Absolutism: A History of France, 1598–1661. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1996.
>A translation of La naissance dramatique de l’absolutisme, 1598–1661 (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1992), this survey traces the Bourbon kings from Henry IV to Louis XIV’s assumption of personal power in 1661. As its title suggests, it links the rise of the Bourbons to the growth of royal power.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 18:49:14 2015 No.7222664

>>7220919
for you

Miley, Thomas Jeffrey. “Franquism as Authoritarianism: Juan Linz and His Critics.” Politics, Religion & Ideology 12.1 (2011): 27–50.
>Provides a good sense of the ongoing debates, especially among Spanish scholars, about how the Franco regime is to be understood. Lays out some of the key variables involved in understanding nondemocratic political forms—and indicates why not all such forms can be considered fascist.

Payne, Stanley G. The Franco Regime, 1936–1975. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
>Even as it notes that the Franco regime evolved with changing circumstances and that Franco cultivated a certain ambiguity, stresses his Catholic and military background and plays down the link with fascism. Argues that though Franco was tempted by aspects of fascism, even including imperialism, up to 1943, he never fully succumbed to them. Saw himself following the Primo de Rivera dictatorship launched in 1923, but avoiding its mistake of failing to institutionalize the regime.

Payne, Stanley G. Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.
>Features the overall weakness of fascism in Spain, reflecting the comparative weakness of Spanish nationalism, but also the import of liberal, Catholic, and leftist traditions, and the continuing prominence of the military, all of which made it difficult for a new fascist movement to find space. Moreover Spain, having been a nonbelligerent, experienced no crisis arising from participation in World War I. Even during the Civil War, the limited space for fascism made it relatively easy for Franco to subordinate Spanish fascism.

Preston, Paul. The Politics of Revenge: Fascism and the Military in 20th-Century Spain. London: Routledge, 1990.
>Examines the ideological foundation for authoritarianism within the Spanish military, ending with the failed resistance to democratization after the death of Francisco Franco.
http://bookzz.org/book/941621/8b13d7

Payne, Stanley G. Politics and the Military in Modern Spain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1967.
>First major work, in English or Spanish, to explain the primacy of the military in Spanish politics during the 19th century.

Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. Rev. ed. New York: Modern Library, 2001.
>A comprehensive volume, which takes advantage of primary sources in multiple languages, and remains, after multiple editions, the best single account of the military, political, and diplomatic context of the Spanish Civil War.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:36:32 2015 No.7222826 >>7222664 gracias, perhaps someday i will find my heritage

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:40:32 2015 No.7222842 Bibliobro, you got anything about colonization of Africa? Specifically about the Scramble? I tried posting a thread earlier but got barely any responses before it died.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 19:52:07 2015 No.7222896

>>7222842

i posted two books here that might interest you >>7214225, but I'll dump some more

Steinmetz, George. The Devils’ Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
>Offers a rare comparative study of three German colonies and argues for the heterogeneity of German colonial practice and policy. The author seeks to explain these differences in Germany’s precolonial ethnographic discourse and in imperial Germany’s three-way intra-elite class struggle.
http://bookzz.org/book/895851/c0374c

Stoecker, Helmut, ed. German Imperialism in Africa: From the Beginnings Until the Second World War. London: Hurst, 1987.
>Representative of East German scholarship on African history in general, especially colonial history.

Forster, Stig, Wolfgang Mommsen, and Ronald Robinson, eds. Bismarck, Europe and Africa: The Berlin Africa Conference 1884–1885 and the Onset of Partition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
>A comprehensive account of the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884 and 1885 and a study of the motives behind the partitioning of Africa. It includes essays on the different negotiators, economic interests, as well as missionary aspirations.

Conrad, Sebastian. German Colonialism: A Short History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
>Offers an up-to-date synthesis of Germany’s colonial ventures in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific and places them in a cultural and transnational frame. It includes excellent illustrations and maps as well as an annotated critical bibliography.

Ames, Eric, Marcia Klotz, and Lora Wildenthal, eds. Germany’s Colonial Pasts. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
>Offers a wide range of studies on German colonialism and its legacies. Some essays focus on the period of Germany’s formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific, while others examine Germany’s postcolonial era, which includes the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany and its colonial revanchism. The interdisciplinary volume includes essays in the fields of musicology, religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary analysis and history.
http://bookzz.org/book/857080/3a95e1

Gann, L., and Peter Duignan. The Rulers of German Africa, 1884–1914. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977.
>Although a little outdated in its approach, this study is still worthwhile reading. It focuses on Germany’s military and administrative personnel in Africa and examines their performance, educational and class background, ideology, continuing ties with the homeland, and subsequent careers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:02:43 2015 No.7222943 >>7222896 Thanks man, anymore stuff on French colonial stuff?

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:05:17 2015 No.7222952

>>7222896

>>7219332
there's some books about italian colonialism here, but focusing on mussolini

Gifford, Prosser, and William Roger Louis, eds. Britain and Germany in Africa: Imperial Rivalry and Colonial Rule. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1967.
>This collection of essays resulted from the first of a series of scholarly conferences, organized by the noted historian William Roger Louis, which examined various aspects of European imperial rule in Africa. The chapters cover Anglo-German imperial competition and cooperation, comparisons of German and British colonial policies regarding “native administration,” missions, taxation, and the British acquisition of some of Germany’s African colonies after World War I.

Eldridge, C. C., ed. British Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. New York: St. Martin’s, 1984.
>A collection of introductory essays on British Empire building in the 19th century.

Ewans, Martin. “Belgium and the Colonial Experience.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 11.2 (2003): 167–180.
This short journal article serves as a quick introduction to Belgium and empire, including Belgians’ “amnesia” regarding their contentious colonial past.
free pdf from google:
http://condor.depaul.edu/fdemissi/Belgium%20and%20the%20Colonial%20Experience.pdf

Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History. London: Zed Books, 2002.
>Nzongola-Ntalaja is a renowned Congolese scholar. This ambitious volume covers Congo’s history from the advent of European rule to the end of the 20th century in less than 300 pages. It is strongest on the post-1960 period. Appropriate for undergraduates.

Boahen, A. Adu, ed. General History of Africa, VII: Africa under Colonial Domination, 1880–1935. London: James Currey, 1990.
>A broad but detailed overview which constitutes part of a much larger chronicle of African history assembled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
http://bookzz.org/book/1246157/f98b74

Farwell, Byron. Queen Victoria’s Little Wars. London: W.W. Norton, 1985.
>Originally published in 1973, this book presents a concise overview of Britain’s colonial wars during the mid- to late 19th century, many of which happened in Africa.
http://bookzz.org/book/1708131/ef5c87

Hopkins, A. G. An Economic History of West Africa. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.
>A scholarly and highly regarded study that sees the conquest of West Africa as rooted in the economic depression of the 1870s, which made European merchants want to cut their costs by undermining African intermediaries in the old coastal trade and gaining direct control over the sources of raw materials.

Pakenham, Thomas. The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent, 1876–1912. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.
>A popular history told in epic style.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:14:05 2015 No.7222978

>>7222952
Robinson, Ronald, and John Gallagher. Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism. London: Macmillan, 1961.
>Rejecting Lenin’s economic approach, these British historians saw the Scramble as happening because of the desire by European powers to secure points of strategic importance such as the Cape and the Suez Canal, which resulted in a domino effect of similar territorial seizures.

Vandervort, Bruce. Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830–1914. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
>A scholarly yet accessible overview of the European military conquest of Africa.
http://bookzz.org/book/696600/fedd95

Stapleton, Timothy J. A Military History of South Africa from the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010.
>A comprehensive military history of South Africa from the 1650s to the present drawn mainly from secondary sources. The Zulu Wars are placed in their wider sub-continental framework in the two chapters on the period from 1830 to 1885. Maps.
http://bookzz.org/book/903170/731dd0

Taylor, Stephen. Shaka’s Children: A History of the Zulu People. London: HarperCollins, 1994.
>A readable overview of Zulu history from earliest times to the end of apartheid in 1994. Based on authoritative published sources and a good introduction for a popular readership. Maps and illustrations.

Morris, Donald R. The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1998.
>Although overtaken by subsequent research, especially with regard to the rise of the Zulu kingdom, this work, first published in 1966 and reprinted many times, has proved the most enduring popular history of the Zulu kingdom up to 1879 because of the stirring panache with which it is written. Maps, diagrams, and illustrations.

Laband, John. The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation. London: Arms and Armour, 1997.
A comprehensive account, first published in 1995, of the emergence of the Zulu kingdom in the 19th century and its dramatic collapse under the impact of Boer and British colonialism. Social and political organization, diplomacy, and military events are emphasized. Maps, diagrams, and illustrations.

Guy, Jeff. The Destruction of the Zulu Kingdom: The Civil War in Zululand, 1879–1884. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of Natal Press, 1998.
>Based on a doctoral dissertation and originally published in 1979. The first truly scholarly analysis of the loss of Zulu independence between 1879 and 1884. An essentially materialist approach that explains events in terms of the demands of advancing capitalism in southern Africa. Has proved an influential monograph. Maps, diagrams, and illustrations.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:26:11 2015 No.7223012

>>7222978
Greaves, Adrian, and Xolani Mkhize. The Zulus at War. The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears. New York: Skyhorse, 2014.
>A broad, popular account of the Zulu from the time of Shaka to the Zulu Rebellion of 1906 that incorporates the Zulu perspective.

Porter, Andrew N. European Imperialism, 1860– 1914. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994.
>A concise survey of the dynamics of empire building as well as the historiographical literature of political, economic, and social natures of European imperialism.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:27:37 2015 No.7223017 When you guys read scholarly publications, how recent do you require the publication to be? Do you read "landmark" studies as an exception?

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:35:37 2015 No.7223043

>>7223012
‣Aldrich, Robert. Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1996.
>A comprehensive account of France’s imperial policies and actions throughout the world.

‣Cooke, James J. New French Imperialism, 1880– 1910: The Third Republic and Colonial Expansion. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1973.
>A study of policy formation in European diplomacy and imperialism, especially in North and West Africa, focusing on Eugène Etiene, a colon who represented Oran, Algeria, in the French parliament.

‣Quinn, Frederick. The French Overseas Empire. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.
>A survey of developments in the French Empire since the 16th century.

‣Thomas, Martin. The French Empire between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics, and Society. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2007.
>The author examines and analyzes French imperialist policies and their impact on the colonial peoples.

‣Watson, William E. Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
>Aside from one introductory chapter focusing on early encounters, this book deals with French imperialism and diplomatic relations in Africa and the Levant during the 19th and 20th centuries. The last chapter covers developments in the early 21st century.

‣Hoisington, William A., Jr. Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.
>A study of the methods of Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey in conquest and rule in administering the protectorate.

‣Confer, Vincent. France and Algeria: The Problem of Civil and Political Reform, 1870– 1920. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1966.
>Confer contends that, had adequate reforms been introduced during this middle period of French control that satisfied the Western-educated Muslim elite, France would have experienced a smoother transition to Algerian independence in later years.

Anonymous Sun Oct 11 20:47:00 2015 No.7223065

>>7223043
‣Hodges, Tony. Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1983.
>A good portion of this book deals with Spain’s political rule and economic involvement in the area.

‣Mercer, John. Spanish Sahara. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1976.
>Deals in part with the Spanish invasion, colonization, and administration of the territory that became known as the Western Sahara in 1976, when Spain withdrew as Morocco (and for a time Mauritania) occupied the phosphate-rich territory.

‣Daly, M. W. Empire on the Nile: The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898– 1934. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
>An examination of British political, economic, and social policies, as well as Sudanese resistance and collaboration, since the establishment of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium.

‣Daly, M. W. Imperial Sudan: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, 1934– 1956. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
>A continuing examination of British colonial policy, the place of Sudan in Anglo-Egyptian relations, and the development of Sudanese nationalist politics until Sudan’s independence.

‣Segrè, Claudio G. Fourth Shore: The Italian Colonization of Libya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
>A useful book for understanding the importance of this North African country to Italy.

‣Hess, Robert L. Italian Colonialism in Somalia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
>The only book-length study of this subject in the English language and essential for understanding Italy’s involvement in the Horn of Africa.

‣Negash, Tekeste. Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882– 1941: Policies, Praxis, and Impact. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala University, 1987.
>The only book-length study of this subject in the English language. It is not a general history but rather an examination of certain aspects of colonial rule emphasizing the strategic importance of the territory.

‣Landes, David S. Bankers and Pashas: International Finance and Economic Imperialism in Egypt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.
>A classic and comprehensive historical study originally published in 1958. It is readable and stands the test of time.

‣Mansfield, Peter. The British in Egypt. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.
>A thorough survey of British imperialism and Anglo-Egyptian relations from the late 19th century to 1954.

‣Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi. Egypt and Cromer: A Study in Anglo-Egyptian Relations. London: John Murray, 1968.
>One of the best accounts of relations between the British consul general in Cairo and various Egyptian leaders.

and that's all for african imperialism

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:17:30 2015 No.7224064 moar

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:20:41 2015 No.7224077 Based Anon, do you have any recs on Russian history?

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:38:41 2015 No.7224118

>>7224077
I've read the first few chapters of the cambridge history of imperial russia and I enjoyed what I was reading. Russia was probably the most comprehensive subject in the beginnings of my historical studies, but reading over the material again I realize it's more nuanced than I thought and its good to approach russia from different perspectives. Especially the 19th century, it was a really complicated period though there are several clear dynastic and historic landmarks that break up the period into something more manageable. Now I'll post a bunch a books I've found on the subject:

Fuller, William C. Strategy and Power in Russia 1600–1914. New York: Free Press, 1992.
>A sweeping account of Russian grand strategy, focusing on the long-term processes that shape military policy. In particular, emphasizes social and economic backwardness and the state institutions established to compensate for that weakness.

Higham, Robin, and Frederick Kagan, eds. The Military History of the Soviet Union. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
>An able and comprehensive collection of essays by authorities in the field.

Kagan, Frederick, and Robin Higham, eds. The Military History of Tsarist Russia. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
>An able and comprehensive collection of essays by authorities in the field.

Reese, Roger R. The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917–1991. Warfare and History. London: Routledge, 2000.
>Provides a brief but able summary of the history of the Soviet military, focusing particularly on the Red Army as a social institution, the experience of the common soldier, and the decline of revolutionary ideals over time.
http://bookzz.org/book/734978/1955a2

Seaton, Albert, and Joan Seaton. The Soviet Army: 1918 to the Present. London: Bodley Head, 1986.
>Although a useful synthesis at its time of publication, this has been superseded both by new research and more up-to-date synthetic works.

Stone, David R. A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.
>A brief overview of Russian military history, aimed at synthesizing recent research for the general public.
http://bookzz.org/book/1011084/5418fa

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:42:53 2015 No.7224133

>>7224118
Footman, David. Civil War in Russia. London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
>This is a series of detailed sketches of several episodes, namely the early campaign on the Don River, the Samara government of the Socialist Revolutionary party, foreign intervention at Archangel, the defeat of Admiral Kolchak’s forces in Siberia, the initial efforts of the Bolsheviks to create the Red Army, and the suppression of Makhno’s peasant anarchist movement in the Ukraine.
http://bookzz.org/book/1145302/d957cb

Holquist, Peter. Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914–1921. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.
>The author places the turning point of Russian history at the outbreak of war in 1914 and traces the effects of that war and the civil war on the process and end result of the revolutions and subsequent Bolshevik methods of governance. The civil war is located historically as the culmination of World War I and revolution.
http://bookzz.org/book/2481830/a083e4

Lincoln, W. Bruce. Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
>This is a general overview in a very readable, narrative style, more descriptive than interpretative or analytical. It is organized chronologically and geographically to cover the three major fronts of the civil war: the southern front, the northern front, and the eastern front.

Mawdsley, Evan. The Russian Civil War. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987.
>This author assumes a basic knowledge of the contexts and personalities of the revolution and civil war on the part of the reader. While it covers the political and social aspects affecting the Bolsheviks and Whites, it mostly offers detail on the military campaigns in chronological order
http://bookzz.org/book/1310832/5ea501..

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:49:30 2015 No.7224149

>>7224133
so. many. military books

Keep, John. Soldiers of the Tsar: Army and Society in Russia, 1462–1874. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
>A groundbreaking work that explains the development of a militaristic service state and examines the unique relationship among the military, the state, and society under the tsars. Traces the changes that occurred and provides insight into social aspects of military life in Russia.
http://bookzz.org/book/982008/050abd

Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David, and Bruce Menning, eds. Reforming the Tsar’s Army: Military Innovation in Imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolution. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
>Four main topics are addressed: population and resources, intelligence and knowledge, response to war, and personalities. Top-notch contributors write on a variety of sometimes neglected aspects of the military, such as military intelligence.

Lohr, Eric, and Marshall Poe, eds. The Military and Society in Russia, 1450–1917. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2002.
>The first two parts of this excellent collection of essays delve into military and society in Muscovy and Imperial Russia. Written by leading experts, topics of essays range include strategy, military mobilization, and civil-military relationships.
http://bookzz.org/book/1262306/21e69f

Stevens, Carol Belkin. Russia’s Wars of Emergence, 1460–1730. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007.
>This book remains the only narrative history of Russian military history between the 15th and 18th centuries. Stevens argues that Russia developed a unique strategy and social-military structures due to its geographic location, resources, and the nature of its conflicts with neighboring powers such as Sweden and Turkey.

LeDonne, John P. The Grand Strategy of the Russian Empire, 1650–1831. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
>The book argues that while never formally defining its grand strategy, Russia in practice pursued an offensive strategy to gain hegemony in Eurasia. The work has been criticized as deterministic, but it raises many interesting questions and should be used in conjunction with other studies (i.e., Hartley 2008).
http://bookzz.org/book/1309353/c35f77

Hartley, Janet M. Russia, 1762–1825: Military Power, the State, and the People. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.
>This is one of the most recent studies of the Russian army and society, offering a sweeping analysis and insightful details on Russia at war. Authors of chapters discuss not only army development, conscription, and the officer corps, but also the costs of war and the impact on civilian life and on culture and identity.
http://bookzz.org/book/910038/22f25b

Duffy, Christopher. Russia’s Military Way to the West: Origins and Nature of Russian Military Power, 1700–1800. Boston: Routledge, 1981.
>A well-written analysis of Russia’s rise as a major power and its relations with the West.
http://bookzz.org/book/1060144/4193b3

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:54:32 2015 No.7224165 do you have any on Spanish history?

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:54:32 2015 No.7224166

>>7224149
Davies, Brian L. Warfare, State and Society on the Black Sea Steppe, 1500–1700. New York: Routledge, 2007.
>Davies provides an insightful overview of Russia’s struggle with the Crimean Khanate, Ottoman Empire, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the fertile steppes of the Black Sea littoral. These campaigns shaped and defined Russian military and political policies and are crucial in understanding Russia’s empire-building enterprise in the 18th and 19th centuries.
http://bookzz.org/book/927650/486527

Bogatyrev, Sergei. “Ivan IV, 1533–84.” In The Cambridge History of Russia. Vol. 1, From Early Rus’ to 1689. Edited by Maureen Perrie, 240–263. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
>A short survey of Ivan’s reign that covers domestic and foreign affairs. The most original sections rely upon the author’s own research on ideology and symbolism. Rejects the notion of a boyar oligarchy or an illiterate or poisoned Ivan. In more recent articles, Bogatyrev has modified or expanded his analysis.
http://bookzz.org/book/989365/7c30f0

Crummey, Robert O. The Formation of Muscovy, 1304–1613. London: Longman, 1987.
>See pp. 143–178 for a very sound analysis of major interpretations of Ivan’s reign and the various theories that have sought to explain Ivan’s motives and policies.

Martin, Janet. Medieval Russia, 980–1584. 2d ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
>While a broad general history, the work includes a sensible overview of Ivan’s reign in the later chapters focusing on political and economic issues and carefully explaining changes in central and local governments and the impact of economic developments (pp. 364–415).
http://bookzz.org/book/1253086/35e9b9

Bushkovitch, Paul. Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671–1725. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
>Bushkovitch offers a careful examination of the Petrine era, primarily through the lens of Petrine court politics. Peter’s careful and not always successful efforts at reform had ultimately to be negotiated with the Empire’s political elite as he (and they) struggled to realize their ambitions and expectations within a developing new structure.
http://bookzz.org/book/914669/f55030

Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924. New York: Penguin, 1998.
>A panoramic narrative that draws on recently opened archives and numerous anecdotes with great effect. Figes argues, on the one hand, that Russia’s long history of serfdom and its autocratic traditions doomed the 1917 effort to establish a democratic regime and, on the other, that it was the Bolshevism and Lenin’s policies after the seizure of power that put in place the basic elements of the Stalinist regime.
http://bookzz.org/book/1009730/a50481

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:56:07 2015 No.7224173 >>7224165 check >>7222664 for modern spain. if you name another period you like though I'll gladly find the works for you

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 01:56:53 2015 No.7224174 >>7224173 medieval pls

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:00:20 2015 No.7224188

>>7224166
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution, 1917–1932. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
>A thematic essay rather than a narrative history by the doyenne of revisionist social history. Fitzpatrick views the events of 1917–1932 as a “single process” in which Stalin’s program of industrialization and collectivization, with mass working-class support and through brute force, completed and fulfilled Lenin’s revolution. The overall revolution is summarized as “terror, progress, and social mobility.” Slightly less than a third of the book deals with the 1917–1921 period. Crafted for use in college-level courses.
http://bookzz.org/book/1225873/4ef6f6

Pipes, Richard. A Concise History of the Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1996.
>The author calls this volume a “précis” of his two massive, path-breaking earlier volumes, The Russian Revolution (Pipes 1990, under The October Revolution and the Establishment of the Bolshevik Regime) and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime (Pipes 1993, under The Civil War and Its Immediate Aftermath). Pipes argues that with the coup of October 1917 fanatical intellectuals seized control of the upheaval of 1917 intent on establishing a socialist utopia, but in the end they reconstituted Russia’s authoritarian tradition in a new regime that laid the basis for totalitarianism. Excellent for advanced undergraduates, this volume covers the period from 1900 to 1924.

Read, Christopher. From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and Their Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
>A comprehensive but reasonably concise (three hundred pages) overview written from a revisionist social history perspective. As the subtitle suggests, Read stresses the activities and efforts of workers and peasants to defend their interests. While sympathetic to Lenin, Read also is critical of the Bolsheviks for suppressing popular movements after seizing power. Includes an extensive bibliography, which increases its value to undergraduates and graduate students.
http://bookzz.org/book/965433/d0473c

Schapiro, Leonard Bertram. The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Origins of Modern Communism. New York: Basic Books, 1984.
>Schapiro argues that the Bolsheviks ruthlessly sabotaged the Provisional Government’s effort to lay the basis for democracy in Russia and, having seized power in a coup d’état, laid the basis for a totalitarian regime. A concise account that sums up the lifetime work of a distinguished historian of Soviet Russia. Excellent for undergraduates.

russia done

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:03:35 2015 No.7224197 Do you have any on Colombia? if you do if would make me really happy

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:04:11 2015 No.7224199 File: 21 KB, 608x567, 1419361584117.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7224188 Anon I will forever be in your debt

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:05:15 2015 No.7224203

>>7224188
one more
This is the one I was reading, but really all of the recommendations sound good to me tbh
http://bookzz.org/book/894096/5cac44

>>7224174
Bisson, Thomas N. The Medieval Crown of Aragón: A Short History. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
>Bisson traces the history of Aragón and Catalonia before their union, through the creation of the “Crown of Aragón,” and into the 16th century. Covering mainly political history, this short volume is one of the few English surveys of the region.
http://bookzz.org/book/702069/6b2392

Glick, Thomas. Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages. 2d ed. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2005.
>Glick pays special attention to culture, technology, science, economy, and society, in Christian and Muslim regions, with evidence from texts and archeological evidence. The first edition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979) is available online. The second edition is considerably expanded and the bibliography is brought up to date.
http://libro.uca.edu/ics/emspain.htm

Jackson, Gabriel. The Making of Medieval Spain. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
>The author concentrates mainly on Christian Spain, and on social, economic, and cultural history. Although now somewhat dated, this brief survey is noteworthy for its many pictures.

O’Callaghan, Joseph F. A History of Medieval Spain. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
>At over seven hundred pages, this comprehensive survey of medieval Spanish history in English has become an essential reference work. This readable but fairly traditional treatment is particularly strong for the history of Castile and the later medieval period. Coverage is supplemented by useful genealogical tables and maps.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:13:33 2015 No.7224233

>>7224203
Reilly, Bernard F. The Medieval Spains. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
>The author emphasizes the diversity of peninsular history and its regional variations, but coverage is somewhat patchy, given the volume’s brevity, and most attention goes to Christian kingdoms. In English, this is suited to general readers.

>>7224199
no prob fam

>>7224197
I've found works in Spanish on bogota, can you read in spanish? there are also general latin american works that have colombia in comparative perspective with other states that i'll post right now

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:15:14 2015 No.7224237 >>7224233 >I've found works in Spanish on bogota, can you read in spanish? I'm not the anon that requested that, but I can read in spanish and would be interested to see what you found

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:16:28 2015 No.7224239

>>7224233
Johnson, John J. The Military and Society in Latin America. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1964.
>Historical treatment of the role of the military in Latin America since independence by one of the leading scholars on this topic in the mid-1960s. Special attention given to the soldier as citizen and bureaucrat, military views on national issues, and public perception of the armed forces. Two chapters on Brazil.

Lieuwen, Edwin. Arms and Politics in Latin America. Rev. ed. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1961.
>The mentor to a generation of scholars dedicated to civil-military relations discusses the origins and evolution of Latin American militarism and caudillismo from 1914 to 1959. Provides brief descriptions for twelve countries, and considers changing military roles and the growth of professionalism. (See also an updated synthesis: The Latin American Military: A Study for the Sub-committee on American Republic Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, 1967).

McAlister, Lyle N. “Civil-Military Relations in Latin America.” Journal of Inter-American Studies 3.3 (July 1961): 341–350.
>Seminal article in the literature on civil-military relations in Latin America. Puts civil-military relations in Latin America into global comparative perspective and suggests an agenda for future research.

McAlister, Lyle N., Anthony P. Maingot, and Robert A. Potash. The Military in Latin American Sociopolitical Evolution: Four Case Studies. Washington, DC: Center for Research in Social Systems, 1970.
>A pioneering comparative work, with case studies on the armed forces and civil-military relations in Argentina, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico. Extensive notes provide a key source on the state of the literature on civil-military relations in the mid-1960s. Tables on numerous topics, including “successful military coups” 1940–1967, and duration of military governments.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:21:49 2015 No.7224248

>>7224237
ok, well I'll post all the spanish works I find for that matter

>>7224239
Horowitz, Irving Louis. “The Military Elites.” In Elites in Latin America. Edited by Seymour Martin Lipset and Aldo Solari, 146–189. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
>Synthesis of a pathbreaking sociologist’s early theorizing on civil-military relations in Latin America. Emphasizes the armed forces’ internal missions, role as political arbiters, relative autonomy, and potential role in economic modernization, as well as the connection between military elites and the United States. Extensive bibliographical notes.

Grigulevich, J., ed. El Ejército y la Sociedad. Vol. 13, America Latina: Estudios de Científicos Soviéticos. Moscow: Academia de Ciencias de la URSS, 1982.
>Nine studies on the participation of the armed forces in socioeconomic and political processes in Latin America, viewed within a “Marxist-Leninist conception of history.” Includes a survey of work by pioneer Soviet social scientists (from the early 1960s) on Latin American armed forces. Case studies on Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador.

Alba, Víctor. El militarismo ensayo sobre un fenómeno politicosocial Iberoamericano. Mexico City: UNAM, 1959.
>Analysis of the attitudes and psychology of Latin American officers; precursor of the literature on the “modernizing” role of the armed forces. Alba’s subsequent study (El ascenso del militarismo tecnocratico, 1963) anticipated the rise of military populists and nationalists (Nasserists) in the region.

Álvarez Gardeazábal, Gustavo. La novela colombiana entre la verdad y la mentira. Bogotá: Plaza & Janés, 2000.
>Discusses the historical context of María, El moro, La vorágine, Cien años de soledad, and the author’s Cóndores no entierran todos los días, questioning whether these novels evade or face the political context in a country where writing is closely linked to power. With questionable conclusions, the book gains significance for the way Álvarez Gardeazábal revisits the tradition of the writer reflecting on national literature.

Ayala Poveda, Fernando. Manual de literatura colombiana. Bogotá: Educar Editores, 1984.
>Traditional in its chronology, the analysis of each period combines notes on writers, tendencies, periods, and fragments of literary works. Informed by cultural criticism and the most important historiographical books; however, it is not necessarily canonical in the selection of topics and novels. The book is illustrated with book covers and graphics to accompany the discussions on periods and contexts.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:26:17 2015 No.7224255

>>7224248
Menton, Seymour. La novela colombiana: Planetas y satélites. Bogotá: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007.
>Menton proposes Isaac’s María, Carrasquilla’s Frutos de mi tierra, and Rivera’s La vorágine as the most important Colombian novels, using the figure of planets. Novels of minor relevance but worth studying constitute “satellites.” First published in 1978, this 2007 augmented edition emphasizes that “no planet novel” has been written in the meantime. Nonetheless, new novels have been added, such as the “Bolívarian constellation,” introducing four novels about Bolívar.

Williams, Raymond L. The Colombian Novel, 1844–1987. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.
>Considered the most authoritative study on the topic, Williams’s classification has served over the years as the guidebook to approach further discussions. Attentive to the strong connections between power and literature, the critic recounts the main regional and geographical divisions that operate as loci of cultural and intellectual production and as markers of ideological formation through the 19th and 20th centuries.

Amaya Arias, Bernardo. Historias de Santafé y Bogotá. Bogotá: Educultural La Rueca, 2011.
>An eclectic series of snapshots of the social and cultural history of the city. The rise and fall of the corn beer (chichi) culture offers fascinating insights into colonial popular culture, and the manner by which control of the drink represented the conquest of the 19th century “café culture.” Includes a detailed account of the urban tram system. A final essay focuses upon “la loca Margarita.”

Bohórquez de Briceño, Fabioloa, and Rubby Angel Giraldo. Bibliografía sobre historia de Bogotá. Bogotá: Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, 1988.
>A survey of 251 accounts of the history of Bogotá, with a strong focus on historic almanacs, traveler’s accounts, and memoirs. The April 9, 1948, riot following the assassination of Jorge Eliécer Gaítan receives special attention. Each citation is briefly annotated with call numbers for the Biblioteca Luís Angel Arango in Bogotá. Includes a thematic index.

Gouëset, Vincent. Bogotá, nacimiento de una metrópoli: La originalidad del proceso de concentración urbana en Colombia en el siglo XX. Bogotá: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1998.
>Outstanding analysis of Colombia’s urban cuadricefalia of Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, and Bogotá. Though urbanization and economic opportunity spurred the growth of each city, Bogotá’s growth was accelerated more by the increase of public and private service industries. Public management of communication and transportation networks added impetus to the capital’s expansion. Contains numerous graphs, maps, and tables, all based upon extensive primary and secondary research.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:31:10 2015 No.7224263

>>7224255
Greenfield, Gerald Michael. “Colombia.” In Latin American Urbanization: Historical Profiles of Major Cities. Edited by Gerald Michael Greenfield, 134–158. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
>Useful but brief survey of Colombian patterns of urbanization, which depart from the primary city characteristics of many other Latin American countries in favor of regional centers. Bogotá grew as an administrative center in the colonial era, a situation that persists into the national period. Focuses upon the era of rapid growth in the 20th century.

Iriarte, Alfredo. Breve historia de Bogotá. Bogotá: Fundación Misión Colombia, 1988.
>An indispensable overview of the history of Bogotá from the era of the Muiscas through the establishment of the National Front in 1958. The work lacks citations, but it is based upon extensive secondary research and the collaboration of leading scholars. Iriarte tends toward a top-down, institutional, and political account of the city, though social and quotidian lives of residents are woven into the well-written narrative.

Martínez, Carlos. Bogotá: Sinopsis sobre su evolución urbana. 2 vols. Bogotá: Escala Fondo Editorial, 1976–1978.
>Volume 1, 1536–1900, offers an invaluable introduction to the physical development of Bogotá by the leading historian of the city. Generously illustrated with maps, drawings of historical buildings, and images of the city and region, Martínez offers a balanced textual history of the city through the 19th century. Volume 2, Bogotá reseñada por cronistas y viajeros ilustres, 1572–1948, offers brief observations of the city by forty-three travelers, making it a singular collection. Most of the travel accounts date from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bethell, Leslie, ed. A Cultural History of Latin America: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
>This collection provides an informative overview of cultural history’s traditional big three: literature, music, and visual arts.
http://bookzz.org/book/1102921/9834a0

King, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
>One of the most up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive treatments of Latin American cultural history. Essays include discussions of modern Spanish American and Brazilian literature and poetry, music, theater, film, art, and architecture. A specific chapter on popular culture as well as a section on “Hispanic USA” added to an opening piece on pre-Columbian and colonial culture nicely rounds out the survey.
http://bookzz.org/book/1090676/5c7492

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:38:25 2015 No.7224281

>>7224263
Rowe, William, and Vivian Schelling, eds. Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America. London: Verso, 1991.
>Rowe and Schelling provide a synthetic overview of Latin American popular culture from colonial to contemporary eras. Their defining of modernity in the Latin American context is one that appreciates how tradition is incorporated rather than excluded. Fruitful analysis of the relation between folklore and mass culture lies at the heart of their discussion.

article on Cali, Colombia
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0123.xml

Hamill, Hugh, ed. Caudillos: Dictators in Spanish America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
>Hamill understands caudillos as the equivalent of dictators and an enduring characteristic of Latin America and Spain. Hamill’s introduction sets the texts into context and expands on his idea that caudillos are very particular to Latin America and part of the social fabric from the 19th century, and that their legacy continues today, after the intense experience of dictatorship during the 20th century.
http://bookzz.org/book/1115577/3d3c00

Lynch, John. Caudillos in Spanish America, 1800–1850. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992.
>Caudillos derived their authority from their land, living in agrarian societies where the relationship between landowner and peasants was that between a patron and a client. They owed obedience to no one and did not share their absolute power with any other person or institution. Caudillos emerged when there was an institutional vacuum, where formal rules were absent and political confrontation was resolved through conflict.

Scheina, Robert. Latin America’s Wars. Vol. 1, The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899. Dulles, VA: Potomac, 2003.
>This book studies war. Concentrating on a series of episodes in chapter-length essays that set a wide canvas in which to analyze caudillismo, Scheina concludes that these military men, the caudillos, often took power only to be revealed as corrupt leaders. This introduction to the topic will be particularly useful for those seeking to understand the trajectory of the term in different locations.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:44:41 2015 No.7224300

>>7224281
Biglaiser, Glen. Guardians of the Nation? Economists, Generals, and Economic Reform in Latin America. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002
>Seeks to explain why the military rulers in Latin America adopted particular economic policies; discusses policy choices, appointments to government posts of economists favoring neoliberal policies, policy formulation, privatization, and the role of ideas and ideology under military governments in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Also includes some comparative material on Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico.

Nunn, Frederick. The Time of the Generals: Latin American Professional Militarism in World Perspective. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
>Comparative study of the role and consequences of professional militarism in Latin America from 1964 to 1989 by one of most prominent experts on Latin American military institutions. Special attention given to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Relies heavily on official military journals in Latin America, Canada, Asia, and Europe.

O’Donnell, Guillermo. Modernization and Bureaucratic Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1973.
>Presents an Argentine political scientist’s formulation of the concept of “bureaucratic-authoritarian” regimes, which became widely applied to Latin American military governments—as well as the subject of extensive theoretical debate—and then a reconsideration of the concept by O’Donnell himself. The Argentine case was important as an inspiration of the concept, but the concept was then applied by many authors to other military governments.
http://bookzz.org/book/1254722/81b821

Remmer, Karen L. Military Rule in Latin America. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
>Remmer, a political scientist, analyzes the origins and political and economic consequences of military rule, and compares and contrasts the policies of military governments and civilian regimes. Creates a typology of military regimes often cited in the literature. Part two of the book focuses on the Chilean case.
http://bookzz.org/book/2474473/f2d324

Rouquié, Alain. The Military and the State in Latin America. Translated by Paul Sigmund. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
>Historical treatment of the armed forces in Latin America by the outstanding French expert; chapters 8–11 focus on the 1959–1990 period. Also examines the role of US policy in the region.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:47:57 2015 No.7224318

>>7224300
Gott, Richard. Guerrilla Movements in Latin America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
>A former English journalist’s detailed, masterful study of the early years of guerrilla insurgencies in Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia, based on primary sources and extensive research in the field. Considered to be the most significant work on the subject at the time. Spanish translation by Patricia Samsing de Jadresic, Las guerrillas en América Latina (Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1971).

Guevara, Ernesto. Guerrilla Warfare. Introduction and case studies by Brian Loveman and Thomas M. Davies, Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.
>The core writings by Latin America’s most celebrated revolutionary on the theory and practice of guerrilla war, with summary commentary and case studies of Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and El Salvador by the compilers. Essential reading.
http://bookzz.org/book/1006078/9e678e

Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P. Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes since 1956. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
>A systematic sociological study, loosely chronological, comparing successful and unsuccessful guerrilla movements and why they were absent in places. Analysis revolves around themes of levels of peasant support, guerrilla military power, and cross-class opposition versus government strength. Comprehensive and inclusive.

Castro, Daniel, ed. Revolution and Revolutionaries: Guerrilla Movements in Latin America. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1999.
>History of Latin American guerrillas since the 1780s, emphasizing post-1959 insurgencies, with chapters by practitioners (e.g., Camilo Torres, Luis de la Puente, Héctor Bejar, and Carlos Marighella) and scholars. Covers Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Argentina, noting in particular the diversity of approaches and practices.

Debray, Régis. Revolution in the Revolution: Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America. Translated by Bobbye Ortiz. New York: Grove, 1967.
>A French intellectual extrapolates from the Cuban Revolution’s success the strategies and tactics required for similar outcomes in Latin America. Excoriates established communist parties and labor movements for bureaucratic ossification, and argues that only guerrillas concentrated in small rural areas (focos) can generate a successful socialist revolution. Dated, but influential in the 1960s.
http://bookzz.org/book/1057125/00a8e4

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:51:51 2015 No.7224333

>>7224318
King, Russell. Land Reform: A World Survey. London: G. Bell, 1977.
>Discusses land reform and types of reform. Broad historical description of evolution of land reform, reaching back to ancient times. Discusses relationship between land reform and economic development. Latin American cases: Mexico, Bolivia, and Cuba, with one chapter giving a brief synopsis of reforms in Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, and Peru.

Tai, Hung-Chao. Land Reform and Politics: A Comparative Analysis. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
>Huge compendium on land reform worldwide. Latin American cases are Mexico and Colombia. Provides detailed description of concepts, analyzes why land reform occurs, and considers the effects. Discusses revolution, rural unrest, ideology, international climate, population pressure, and especially elite decision making.

found some solid works on Colombia finally

Bushnell, David. The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1970.
>Straightforward narrative account of the administration of Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombia’s so-called Man of Laws, from 1819 to 1827, including his rivalry with Bolívar and the many issues and practical problems that beset the new government while still fighting a war. Originally published in 1954.

Colmenares, Germán, ed. La Independencia: Ensayos de historia social. Bogotá, Colombia: Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, Subdirección de Comunicaciones Culturales, 1986.
>Collection of essays by Colombians working at the Universidad de Valle in Cali. Their central goal was to challenge the liberal, triumphalist view of Colombian independence established in the 19th century by José Manuel Restrepo by examining socioeconomic changes (or lack thereof) among women, families, rural communities, and indigenous people.

Díaz de Zuluaga, Zamira. Guerra y economía en las haciendas, Popayán, 1780–1830. Bogotá, Colombia: Banco Popular, 1983.
>Excellent social history notes that rural economies suffered when both labor and elites abandoned the estates and agricultural pursuits to engage in the wars, and that the region had a hard time recovering from the devastation.

Earle, Rebecca A. Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1810–1825. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 2000.
>Important reconsideration argues that the Spanish Crown and its representatives were as responsible for the loss of colonial New Granada as the patriots were responsible for winning it. Notes the political infighting, personal rivalries, chronic maladministration, frequent changes of personnel, and lack of consistent policy as reasons why Spain failed to regain control.

Gómez Hoyos, Rafael. La independencia de Colombia. Madrid: MAPFRE, 1992.
>Comprehensive history by a noted Colombian social historian written on the quincentennial of Columbus’s discovery of the Americas.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 02:54:20 2015 No.7224337

>>7224333
McFarlane, Anthony. Colombia before Independence: Economy, Society, and Politics under Bourbon Rule. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
>Standard history of background events and process that led to the revolts that erupted across the Viceroyalty of New Granada in the late 18th century. The author stresses fundamental shifts in the international and domestic economy, the rise of powerful regional interests, and the local resentments unleashed by a century of centralizing Bourbon reforms.
http://bookzz.org/book/987798/8c4566

Uribe-Uran, Victor. Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Families, and Politics in Colombia, 1780–1850. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
>Discusses the transformation of the role and status of lawyers in the late colonial and independence era and finds that a surprisingly large number were involved in the resistance to Spanish authority. Includes brief biographies of more than 150 lawyers and documents their overlapping family networks.

thats all for colombia

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 06:44:58 2015 No.7224844 >>7218955 I'm real interested in the first one. Please do find a copy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 06:50:44 2015 No.7224857 >>7224844 boom http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=1454D278375BD6ACDB7DCFC7BE59CDB6 You need a proxy though to download it in america and europe I think

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 09:10:58 2015 No.7225177 >>7224857 Nah

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 14:44:07 2015 No.7226218 >>7224337 got any on Christianity, theology and such?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 20:05:43 2015 No.7227481 this thread dead yet?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 20:16:51 2015 No.7227534 >>7223043 why do you take time out of your day to do this all for them?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 20:34:47 2015 No.7227595 >>7226218 go on bookzz and search for the cambridge history of christianity. I'm reading volume 8 on world christianities 1815-1914 at the moment and its very interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 20:37:47 2015 No.7227604 >>7227534 I like sharing with /lit/, its also a great way to procrastinate and feel good about it :^)

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:02:59 2015 No.7227687 >>7227604 what book have you read

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:07:15 2015 No.7227705 >>7227687 what do you mean?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:13:30 2015 No.7227729 >>7227705 books that you read in leisure

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:15:11 2015 No.7227734 >>7221378 >>7221451 >>7221651 Hannibal belongs in any top 3.

Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:20:47 2015 No.7227753

>>7227729
I haven't been reading so much lit lately, but over the summer I read some short stories from Conrad and Hawthorne. I also read a couple of books by Kawabata, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Leskov (all really short reads). I've mostly been reading history though, with a special focus on England lately. I read a fair amount of books on Tudor and Stuart England and now I'm alternating between Blackwell Companions to 18th century England, another on the Roman Republic, and another on the Hellenistic age. Also started reading "Comparative Fascist Studies," a book I posted in this thread, cause seeing all these works on fascism has gotten me really interested in the subject

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 21:23:37 2015 No.7227758 >>7221651 Churchill is the farthest possible thing from a credible authority on military leadership.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 12 23:16:06 2015 No.7228125 >>7227758 who do you think is?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 05:12:32 2015 No.7229026 >>7228125 People who aren't churchill

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 08:58:07 2015 No.7229415 >>7217857 The section on Lycurgus in Lives is excellent. It explains why Sparta was the military state that it was.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 09:37:23 2015 No.7229481 >>7229415 Which edition is the best of Plutarch's lives and do you know what exactly Oxford's classics leave out?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:10:57 2015 No.7229550 >>7224188 How did you find all these great annotated bibliographies, fam? They're great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 10:40:47 2015 No.7229630 >>7229550 from this site >>7215611

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 11:08:57 2015 No.7229736 >>7229630 Half of them seem to be behind a paywall. Is there a collection of these somewhere?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 12:49:11 2015 No.7230030 File: 51 KB, 400x600, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Does anybody know a good bio on Charles de Gaulle?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 15:04:00 2015 No.7230633 File: 29 KB, 325x499, cbook.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7210346 pic very related

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 15:39:14 2015 No.7230807 >>7230030 Charles Williams - The Last Great Frenchman: A Life Of General De Gaulle Jean Lacouture - De Gaulle (Two volumes)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 19:29:29 2015 No.7231740 >>7229736 you can usually see the intro works. sometimes when i click on an article i can access it for free for no reason. its entirely random. you can search for the guides on amazon and buy them for 10 bucks if you're willing to shell out the money

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 20:11:13 2015 No.7231906 anyone got anything on Fredrick the great?

Anonymous Tue Oct 13 20:43:41 2015 No.7232021
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>>7210346
History grad student, here.

The best "great man" biography I can think of is Friedreich Katz's The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Not only is it a tremendous biography of Villa's life (and times) but it is perhaps one of the best books on the Mexican Revolution more generally. I cannot recommend it enough.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 13 21:25:56 2015 No.7232143 >>7230807 Thanks!

Anonymous Wed Oct 14 01:53:04 2015 No.7232900

>>7231906
Paret, Peter, ed. Frederick the Great: A Profile. New York: Hill & Wang, 1972.
>Has a short introductory biography followed by a series of essays examining different facets of Frederick’s life by historians but also by contemporaries to Frederick.

Reddaway, William F. Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia. New York: Haskell House, 1969.
>This is a reprint of a work that originally appeared at the turn of the 20th century. The author is critical of Frederick and finds much fault in his life and reign. The interpretation of this work is that Frederick was anything but Great.

Reiners, Ludwig. Frederick the Great: A Biography. Translated by Lawrence P. Wilson. New York: Putnam, 1960.
>A straightforward account of Frederick’s life with almost nothing in the way of analysis or interpretation.

Simon, Edith. The Making of Frederick the Great. London: Cassell, 1963.
>A dated but very good biography of Frederick that explores the conditions of his youth and upbringing in detail.

Barker, Thomas M. Frederick the Great and the Making of Prussia. Huntington, NY: Krieger, 1976.
>A solid history of Frederick’s life and reign. Originally written as a college textbook, it remains a good, short reference work and good place to start learning about the life of the king.

finally,

Clark, Christopher. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2006.
>This extensive history of Prussia includes a large section that details Frederick’s life and the wars he fought that brought Prussia to prominence in the affairs of Europe. Of particular note is the account of his imprisonment and being forced to watch the execution of his best friend when he was a young man.
http://bookzz.org/book/931248/a8d942
is the only book I've read on this list and it was really enjoyable, not so much for the prose, but because Clark opened me up to a panorama of central europe which I hadn't known much about previously. Its funny because after I finished the book I've seen many other anons rep this book on the board (could be confirmation bias though)

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 05:51:24 2015 No.7233305 Did the anon post all of the bibliographies on Fascism and National Socialism? If not, please post the rest. Very interested for my academic work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 06:29:27 2015 No.7233376 >>7233305 give me an email and I'll send you the document I have it saved on. It's faster than me posting them all. On that note, should I make a fake email account; I've seen sites where you can get a disposable email to send things?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 07:09:33 2015 No.7233431 >>7233376 bibliographiespls@mailinator.com I suppose you could also upload it to pastebin.com I think the sky is the limit for characters on that one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 07:28:52 2015 No.7233475 >>7233431 in that case http://pastebin.com/zWA1GgEz

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 07:32:21 2015 No.7233482 >>7233475 Excellent. Thank you my good man. Are there any on pessimism? Tibetan Buddhism? The occult? Just trying to think of other topics.

Anonymous Wed Oct 14 08:44:57 2015 No.7233605

>>7233482
I've found articles on Tibetan Buddhism. All the articles seem to have big lists of introductory works, though the rest of the articles is cut off by the paywall

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0166.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0013.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0086.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0190.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0167.xml

here's a psychology article on pessimism.

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199828340/obo-9780199828340-0108.xml

or do you mean cultural or philosophical pessimism?
For occult:

ancient jewish magic
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0022.xml
messianic though and movements
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0032.xml
sabbatianism- messianic jewish movement in early modern period
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0023.xml
Apocalypticism and Messianism
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0029.xml

Islamic Studies
Sufism- islamic mysticism
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0081.xml
Isma'ili Shiʿa- form of messianic shiism
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0121.xml
Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj- sufi figure
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0222.xml
Al-Ghazali- important sufi philospher
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0028.xml

this is the kind of stuff your probably looking for tho:

Yates, Frances. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. London: Routledge, 1979.
>A small volume that nevertheless encompasses a commanding range of material relating to the prevalence in England of a “Christian Cabbala,” the various doctrines of occult philosophy, the thought and work of the gigantic figure of John Dee, and the manifestation of these ideas in various dramas and contemporary literature.
http://bookzz.org/book/612477/af9c7e

Parry, Glyn. “John Dee and the Elizabethan British Empire in its European Context.”Historical Journal 49.3 (2006): 643–675.
>The imperial writings of John Dee receive an extensive and nuanced analysis in this article, which reveals Dee’s more apocalyptic, magical, and globalist visions as opposed to the confidently expansionist commercial-Protestant tendency that scholars have read into them. Especially effective is Parry’s discussion of the place of these writings, and their reception, in relation to the circumstances of the time.

Anonymous Wed Oct 14 08:55:55 2015 No.7233626

>>7233605
more early modern England stuff

Webster, Charles. The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine, and Reform, 1626–1660. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1976.
>A classic text that argues for the Puritan pursuit of science and its consequence for modern systems of inquiry. In addition to discussing a wide range of activities he places under the guise of science, Webster traces the interconnections between science, religion, and ethics in a key moment of historical development.

Geis, Gilbert and Ivan Bunn. A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution. London: Routledge, 1997.
>The product of a collaboration between a historian and a criminologist, this study examines the 1662 trial of Amy Denny and Rose Cullender, overseen by Matthew Hale and resulting in their execution. The authors conclude that the trial was an avoidable mockery of justice that historians have tended to overlook in their quest for understanding over judgment.
http://bookzz.org/book/734316/53fd44

MacFarlane, Alan. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England: A Regional and Comparative Study. 2d ed. London: Routledge, 1999.
>With Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic, a classic anthropological account of witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England in the county of Essex from 1560 to 1680. Incidents of witchcraft are detailed, as are the courts and procedures, the motivations behind accusations, and the effect of geography, age, class, and gender on the rise of the witch scare.
http://bookzz.org/book/1172060/d77b59

Sharpe, James. Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in England, 1550–1750. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
>A scholarly history of the subject that also argues for the distinction of witchcraft or the witch hunt in England as opposed to the continent. Describes the size and distribution of witchcraft allegations across England; though a “woman’s crime,” witchcraft was also a crime in which female accusers were plentiful, and women’s testimony unusually vital.

MacDonald, Michael. Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
>One of the best studies of madness and the emergence of psychology as a practice in Tudor and Stuart England, based on the casebooks of the physician Richard Napier. Broader attitudes and changes in perceptions toward mental abnormality are explored, as well as the holistic nature of science, magic, and religion for treatments. The increasing interest in melancholy is also discussed at length.

Anonymous Wed Oct 14 09:08:04 2015 No.7233651

>>7233626
Marshall, Peter. Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
>An important work that examines the effect of the Reformation on attitudes toward death, including the decline in the belief in purgatory and in the value of prayers for the dying, and the transformation of communal ties and the reciprocal relations between the dead and the living. Ghosts, burial practices, and commemoration are also analyzed as they were transformed by Protestantism.
http://bookzz.org/book/809378/16073a

Thomas, Keith. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
>A landmark text and a still-valid explanation of magic and witchcraft in the Tudor and Stuart period, primarily through an anthropological as well as sociological, psychological, and intellectual lens. Thomas uses a huge quantity of source materials, and he is particularly good at dissecting witchcraft accusations on a local level. Thomas also discusses tensions in communities, as well as witchcraft’s decline. Originally published in 1973.
http://bookzz.org/book/2072459/2ae916

Christian Mysticism
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0129.xml
Apocalypticism, Millennialism, and Messianism
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0147.xml
witchcraft
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0190.xml
Necromancy, Theurgy, and Intermediary Beings
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0006.xml

free article on medieval "Folk Custom and Entertainment"
http://pastebin.com/iVWfgPfg

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 09:34:30 2015 No.7233697 I've been reading through Plutarch's Lives recently and I'm having trouble keeping track of all these assholes that have the same name. Is there a decent way to get better at this? I'm on Pyrrhus right now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 09:52:00 2015 No.7233737 >>7233605 >or do you mean cultural or philosophical pessimism? Philosophical pessimism, if there is one, although the psychology article is interesting, too! Thanks for your service to /lit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 10:19:31 2015 No.7233820 >>7233697 hey guy, which edition do you have?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 17:55:00 2015 No.7235393 >>7233820 http://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-Western-World-Vol/dp/B000L3QMIK I have this

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 14 19:04:43 2015 No.7235677 >>7235393 unfortunately I'm Canadian and everything is expensive :(

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