Historical Book Recomendation Thread

[Dachs]

In what country?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

The United States.

 

[Dachs]

Oh. Hell if I know.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Are there any good and reasonably neutral books on the feminist movement i.e. not the women's suffrage movement?

As in, a history of it? I wish I could remember the name of the book we used for the Women's History in America class I took. I'll try and dig it up.

 

[Huayna Capac357]

As in, a history of it? I wish I could remember the name of the book we used for the Women's History in America class I took. I'll try and dig it up.

Yeah, a history of it. In America. But like the post-suffrage stuff.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I can't seem to dig up the name of my text for the life of me.

It might be worth your time to pick up The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is the book that largely sparked the Second Wave of Feminism, or whatever it was called. Also, you may be interested in the Marxist Feminist perspective, from Rosa Luxembourg: Women's Liberation and Marx's Theory of Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya. I'm afraid that's all the help I can offer you.

 

[Ajidica]

Can you reccomend any good books that are a general overview of Central and South America from the Conquistadores until present? Preferably they would focus on the revolutionary wars and the military dictatorships.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Can you reccomend any good books that are a general overview of Central and South America from the Conquistadores until present? Preferably they would focus on the revolutionary wars and the military dictatorships.

Most certainly. Latin America, an Interpretive History, by E. Bradford Burns and Julie A. Charlip was what we used in college. Not particularly long (about 300 pages or so), but it gives a decent survey of both colonial and national periods.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I'm looking for as many books as I can which discuss the formation of macronationalist identity - i.e. the creation of the "Yugoslav" identity as a distinct identity building upon national identities such as Serb and Croat. Not too interested in cases where the identity was more or less considered shared (such as with, say, pan-Germanism), but more where groups which considered themselves distinct (i.e. Islamist vs. Arab. Any attempts at an overarching Austro-Hungarian identity perhaps?)

I'll need analysis on what caused them to succeed and fail.

It doesn't matter where geographically this happened, but it'd have to be where there was a concerted effort to form such macronationalist identities.

Thanks.

 

[Cutlass]

Some months ago some people were talking about a book on the Nazi economy. But I don't recall what thread that was in. What was the title for a 1 volume history of the German economy in the Nazi era?

 

[ParkCungHee]

Wages of Destruction?

 

[Cutlass]

I'll take a look, thanks.

 

[1889]

I'm looking for as many books as I can which discuss the formation of macronationalist identity - i.e. the creation of the "Yugoslav" identity as a distinct identity building upon national identities such as Serb and Croat. Not too interested in cases where the identity was more or less considered shared (such as with, say, pan-Germanism), but more where groups which considered themselves distinct (i.e. Islamist vs. Arab. Any attempts at an overarching Austro-Hungarian identity perhaps?)

I'll need analysis on what caused them to succeed and fail.

It doesn't matter where geographically this happened, but it'd have to be where there was a concerted effort to form such macronationalist identities.

Thanks.

Not sure but Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson might be worth looking into.

 

[Dachs]

Any attempts at an overarching Austro-Hungarian identity perhaps?

István Deák - Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps 1848-1918 on "black-yellow nationalism"

 

[bonefang]

if you want books that speaks of the truth, they are most probably banned in the region... since they are usually tagged as "sensitive". try for book fanatics outside the zone of the influence. I get some books from my sis in law from South Africa, whilst i sit at India

 

[Masada]

Imperial Alchemy is meant to be good.

Not sure but Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson might be worth looking into.

Not really.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Thanks gentlemen

 

[Azale]

Can you reccomend any good books that are a general overview of Central and South America from the Conquistadores until present? Preferably they would focus on the revolutionary wars and the military dictatorships.

The Penguin History of Latin America has been fairly good.

 

[bombshoo]

Best book on interwar Japan?

 

[ParkCungHee]

Nothing more specific?
I'd go with Soldiers of the Sun even though it covers a particular topic.