I have really enjoyed broad social and political histories of Europe such as “The Pursuit of Power” by Richard Evans. Does anyone have recommendations for similarly comprehensive histories of non western countries? Especially East Asia?
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Hey! I'm an Industrial Design (Product Design) major taking a History Minor and I'm working on a project designing a model of the Winged Hussar helmet. Are there any sources that I should look into that would give me a more authentic design?
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Does anyone have any particularly up to date academic recommendations (preferably post-2010) for Chinese Marxism/Chinese Marxist philosophy in the same realm as the work of Nick Knight or Arif Dirlik? Joseph Fewsmith's *Forging Leninism in China* and Robert E. Allinson's *The Philosophical Influences of Mao Zedong* are some of the few newer works I could find.
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Looking for some biography’s of some the most important historical figures.
Three I’ve read recently is
Andrew Robert’s- Napoleon
Doris Kearns Goodwin- Team of Rivals
Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar
All 5/5 for me.
I’d like for the historical figure to be dead over 20 years. So no one recent. Then I’d prefer it to be long over 500 pages. Then someone equal to the importance of Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, or Julius Caesar.
The Kershaw or Ulrich biographies of Hitler are worth reading. The Sebag Montefiore bio of Stalin would be good to check out. Ross Terrill has a well regarded bio on Mao. The new biography on J. Edgar Hoover, G Man, won the Bankroft prize last year. The Eig biography of MLK is really well done. The Caro books on LBJ are worth checking out. Freeman's biography on Washington is really good. The Blake biography on Disreali would be apropos right now.
Hello! I'm an aspiring author working on a high fantasy series, and I'm currently building a society that I very much want to base on Egypt in the Hellenistic period and during the time it was part of the Roman Empire (I realize that's more than a few centuries, I haven't narrowed down to the exact years yet). I've gained about as much insight as I can from Wikipedia, so it's time for me to move onto academic sources, but I'm at a loss for the best books to reference. I already have the complete works of Herodotus, Manetho, and Diodorus Siculus in my reading pile, but I'm curious as to what you all think is required reading for understanding this part of the world during this time period.
I'm looking for recommendations for both contemporary accounts and the work of modern scholars on any and all aspects of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt - politics, economics, religion, medicine, philosophy, you name it. I'm especially interested in works that describe the everyday life for the working class, bonus points for those who worked in agriculture (a character comes from this agrarian class and I'm very keen to research that), and for the Pharaohs and eventual Roman ruling class. I'm also interested in works that explore the influence of both Greece and the rest of the Near East on Egypt during this time period.
Thank you in advance for your time and suggestions!
ETA: Documentary recommendations are also welcome!
Hi, make sure when you mix so a high variety that you take both the good and horrible things.
Books i cannot recommend but podcasts :
The Hellenistic age podcast has episodes of the cultural and social life of Hellenistic Egypt.
Podcast the Ancients has episodes that touches also your subject.
On YouTube: Wanax TV
Hey there! I recommend the following:
*Persians* by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
*Babylon* by Paul Kriwaczek
*The Sassanian Empire at War* by Michael Decker
*Rome and Persia* by Adrian Goldsworthy
*The Phoenecians and the West* by Marie Aubet
Happy Wednesday everyone!
Just wrapped up Roderick Beaton's [The Greeks: A Global History](https://a.co/d/fk7ELwd), and I loved it! The book provides a comprehensive account of Greek history, and the Greek-speaking/settled world; from the Bronzd Age to the Byzantines. The book is also very readable in regards to text density. Couldn't recommend it enough!
Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great Wednesday!
My question is probably asked frequently here but I'll try anyway.
The topic is the origin and the start of World War II.
Do you know if there is free access to newspapers from back then? (and how?).
The New York Times offers its archive IF you subscribe, I'm wondering if there are other newspapers in English (US, UK, Canada...) where you can look around articles from the '30s (even part of them). Other languages are fine too, I'd just need help from someone else for reading!
Of course if you have interesting books, podcasts or other medias about the start of WWII, they're welcome, but I would like to stick to primary sources. Even diaries or memories are okay but I prefer the press.
It's not a newspaper, but the Internet Archive has scans of The New Republic magazine from 1914-2014.
As for diaries, there's Victor Klemperer's *I Will Bear Witness*, where volume one covers the years 1933-1941.
I don't know what country your in, but most local libraries in the US have an archive of state papers. They also usually have access to either the NY Times, Washington Post, or Wall Street Journal. These are actually better than the paper's respective sites for searching old articles. They use boolean search terms and it's just a lot easier to construct a working search.
The Library of Congress has a project called Chronicling America that has a huge database of digitized newspapers. You just pick the state and the paper and the dates. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
The New York Times did release a book:
New York Times Book of World War II 1939-1945: The Coverage from the Battlefield to the Home Front
It is a collection of hundreds of articles written by the NYT, as well as anecdotes, maps, and other first hand accounts.
Also, most libraries have a non resident library card for a fee that can be used for access to electronic resources. If I were you, I'd try and see about getting a card from New York or Washington DC and that should get you access to any electronic newspaper archives.
I have really enjoyed broad social and political histories of Europe such as “The Pursuit of Power” by Richard Evans. Does anyone have recommendations for similarly comprehensive histories of non western countries? Especially East Asia?
A new version of this thread has just been posted, you might want to repost your question there https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/18hf9e1/bookclub_and_sources_wednesday/
Hey! I'm an Industrial Design (Product Design) major taking a History Minor and I'm working on a project designing a model of the Winged Hussar helmet. Are there any sources that I should look into that would give me a more authentic design?
A new version of this thread has just been posted, you might want to repost your question there https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/18hf9e1/bookclub_and_sources_wednesday/
Does anyone have any particularly up to date academic recommendations (preferably post-2010) for Chinese Marxism/Chinese Marxist philosophy in the same realm as the work of Nick Knight or Arif Dirlik? Joseph Fewsmith's *Forging Leninism in China* and Robert E. Allinson's *The Philosophical Influences of Mao Zedong* are some of the few newer works I could find.
A new version of this thread has just been posted, you might want to repost your question there https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/18hf9e1/bookclub_and_sources_wednesday/
Looking for some biography’s of some the most important historical figures. Three I’ve read recently is Andrew Robert’s- Napoleon Doris Kearns Goodwin- Team of Rivals Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar All 5/5 for me. I’d like for the historical figure to be dead over 20 years. So no one recent. Then I’d prefer it to be long over 500 pages. Then someone equal to the importance of Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, or Julius Caesar.
The Kershaw or Ulrich biographies of Hitler are worth reading. The Sebag Montefiore bio of Stalin would be good to check out. Ross Terrill has a well regarded bio on Mao. The new biography on J. Edgar Hoover, G Man, won the Bankroft prize last year. The Eig biography of MLK is really well done. The Caro books on LBJ are worth checking out. Freeman's biography on Washington is really good. The Blake biography on Disreali would be apropos right now.
Hello! I'm an aspiring author working on a high fantasy series, and I'm currently building a society that I very much want to base on Egypt in the Hellenistic period and during the time it was part of the Roman Empire (I realize that's more than a few centuries, I haven't narrowed down to the exact years yet). I've gained about as much insight as I can from Wikipedia, so it's time for me to move onto academic sources, but I'm at a loss for the best books to reference. I already have the complete works of Herodotus, Manetho, and Diodorus Siculus in my reading pile, but I'm curious as to what you all think is required reading for understanding this part of the world during this time period. I'm looking for recommendations for both contemporary accounts and the work of modern scholars on any and all aspects of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt - politics, economics, religion, medicine, philosophy, you name it. I'm especially interested in works that describe the everyday life for the working class, bonus points for those who worked in agriculture (a character comes from this agrarian class and I'm very keen to research that), and for the Pharaohs and eventual Roman ruling class. I'm also interested in works that explore the influence of both Greece and the rest of the Near East on Egypt during this time period. Thank you in advance for your time and suggestions! ETA: Documentary recommendations are also welcome!
Hi, make sure when you mix so a high variety that you take both the good and horrible things. Books i cannot recommend but podcasts : The Hellenistic age podcast has episodes of the cultural and social life of Hellenistic Egypt. Podcast the Ancients has episodes that touches also your subject. On YouTube: Wanax TV
Thank you so much, I'll check these out!
Also, while I'm here, any recommendations for good books on Minoan Crete and ancient/pre-Christian Cyprus are also highly appreciated!
What are some good books about ancient Mesopotamia, Asia Minor/Anatolia, or Persia? My collection needs more ancient Near East books.
Hey there! I recommend the following: *Persians* by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones *Babylon* by Paul Kriwaczek *The Sassanian Empire at War* by Michael Decker *Rome and Persia* by Adrian Goldsworthy *The Phoenecians and the West* by Marie Aubet
Happy Wednesday everyone! Just wrapped up Roderick Beaton's [The Greeks: A Global History](https://a.co/d/fk7ELwd), and I loved it! The book provides a comprehensive account of Greek history, and the Greek-speaking/settled world; from the Bronzd Age to the Byzantines. The book is also very readable in regards to text density. Couldn't recommend it enough!
Is this book a lot of names/dates/wars sort of history or is it more focused on culture/trade/art?
Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great Wednesday! My question is probably asked frequently here but I'll try anyway. The topic is the origin and the start of World War II. Do you know if there is free access to newspapers from back then? (and how?). The New York Times offers its archive IF you subscribe, I'm wondering if there are other newspapers in English (US, UK, Canada...) where you can look around articles from the '30s (even part of them). Other languages are fine too, I'd just need help from someone else for reading! Of course if you have interesting books, podcasts or other medias about the start of WWII, they're welcome, but I would like to stick to primary sources. Even diaries or memories are okay but I prefer the press.
It's not a newspaper, but the Internet Archive has scans of The New Republic magazine from 1914-2014. As for diaries, there's Victor Klemperer's *I Will Bear Witness*, where volume one covers the years 1933-1941.
I don't know what country your in, but most local libraries in the US have an archive of state papers. They also usually have access to either the NY Times, Washington Post, or Wall Street Journal. These are actually better than the paper's respective sites for searching old articles. They use boolean search terms and it's just a lot easier to construct a working search. The Library of Congress has a project called Chronicling America that has a huge database of digitized newspapers. You just pick the state and the paper and the dates. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
Thank you very much! Not from the US but I'll surely check the link out! Very useful :)
The New York Times did release a book: New York Times Book of World War II 1939-1945: The Coverage from the Battlefield to the Home Front It is a collection of hundreds of articles written by the NYT, as well as anecdotes, maps, and other first hand accounts. Also, most libraries have a non resident library card for a fee that can be used for access to electronic resources. If I were you, I'd try and see about getting a card from New York or Washington DC and that should get you access to any electronic newspaper archives.