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Saturday Studies, 08 August 2015 (self.badhistory)

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Find a book you like? Read an intriguing article from JSTOR last week? Want to discuss and get recommendations for new books? This is the thread for it! Come one, come all, please let us know what you've been reading this week!

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[–]seaturtlesallthewayWikipedia is peer-viewed. 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Turns out that our library has 1493. Which I shall read soon.

Starting in on Barbarossa Derailed, Vol 1. It's dense, for sure, but finally I'm gaining perspective on the Soviet side of WW2.

[–]anthropology_nerdGuns, Germs, and Generalizations 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Read Horowitz's A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World this week because I somehow missed it earlier. Like his Confederates in the Attic it read like a travel narrative interspersed with brief interviews with experts, reenactors, and all manner of down home American crazies he manages to find on his historical ramblings. If you are looking for an easy summer read discussing many of the first settlements in North America you might enjoy it.

Still plugging away on Rushforth's Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. Rushforth does a great job bringing together the scant information surrounding the Indian slave trade through Canada, as well as contextualizing what the exchange of captives meant for the French and their Native American allies. It is just a dense book on a rather sad topic so it is taking me a while to read.

[–]Gunlord500 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Whoah, I don't remember Saturday Studies appearing before...is this a new thing? :o

Well, in any case, I sure like it. I think I may have mentioned this last week, but I read Bruce Cumings' "The Korean War," and now I'm reading Richard Evans' book on alternate histories. I'm enjoying both :D

[–]taylororo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

what did you think of the cummings book? in general im not a fan because i find him too pro-north (stuff like kim jeong-il would be content playing basketball and watching movies). i havent read the korean war though

[–]pasunthrowaway 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I just came back from a 10-days trip. The first ones I've tried to read Postwar, by Tony Judt , as it has for a long time been on my reading list.

I don't know why, but I did not like it much. Of course the sheer number of interesting facts he presents is fascinating but.. The guy is social-democratic and it shows. Sometimes I would have loved him to go deeper in some subjects, like how Eastern Europeans learn to live under communist rule instead of being vague like that, discrediting everything that is left or right of social-democracy.

Then I guess it's once again the difference between anglo-saxon historiography and the french one. Especially when it comes to the European Union.

I guess that I would have to seek more specialised books and that with such a vast subject his choices are inevitable, but it still feels somehow bittersweet.

[–]Mictlantecuhtli 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Genetic Evidence Supports the Multiethnic Character of Teopancazco, a Neighborhood Center of Teotihuacan, Mexico (AD 200-600)

I saw Linda Manzanilla present the initial findings of this paper at the SAAs two years ago in Austin. It's some great stuff.

[–]TheGreatDainius 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Does anyone know of a site or printed source where I could find out what resources were transported by merchant ships in the 1710s, as well as how much the goods may have cost on the market? I'm trying to learn more about old-school piracy, but besides notorious pirates seizing ships with vast amounts of money on board, I'm having issues figuring out how "worth it" it would be to seize a given merchant ship and what you could expect to find aboard.

[–]georgeguy007High Chartist Chancellor (was elected tho, like Hitler) 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Alright taking a civil war history class in college!! Any thoughts on these books:

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: ISBN: 9780813921044 -- Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: ISBN: 9780820345406 -- Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Loyalty (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: ISBN: 9780807120170 -- Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Library of Southern Civilization)

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: ISBN: 9780743299626 -- Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: ISBN: 9780809087433 -- The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War

Anyone know anything? Thanks!

[–]marbar18 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm wrapping up the summer before I go back to university for my last year and I've been reading the Iliad. My mother is a classics professor so she's an expert on the book. I'll read a chapter and then discuss it with her the next day, and it's amazing, there is a ton in the Iliad I NEVER EVER would have even considered if she hadn't pointed it out to me. turns out my mom is pretty cool (don't tell her I said that).