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I knew I should have read Norman Stone.By Niall Ferguson I assume you mean Norman Stone; the thesis is older than our ages combined.![]()
I knew I should have read Norman Stone.By Niall Ferguson I assume you mean Norman Stone; the thesis is older than our ages combined.![]()
Considering Petain was 15 years old, he seems an unlikely candidate, as does Clemenceau who took part in the commune.
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 is definitely an entertaining book, good mixture of polemic, rhetoric, and wall o' stats. I'm pretty sure the only person for whom Stone has any respect on the Eastern Front was Brusilov.I knew I should have read Norman Stone.
FWIW, the Paris Commune, whether or not an actual socialist state, certainly was an inspiration for Lenin and other Bolsheviks. Circumstances in Russia led to a system that wasn't all that similar, but they were certainly hoping to build off of the Paris Commune and make something better.
I know, I was considering reading that for my WWI class. Instead I picked Liulevicius's book.The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 is definitely an entertaining book, good mixture of polemic, rhetoric, and wall o' stats. I'm pretty sure the only person for whom Stone has any respect on the Eastern Front was Brusilov.![]()
That then makes two anachronisms in a row, as the Paris Commune wasn't a socialist achievement either. (We're now also in need of two citations, BTW.)
I'd like to see a citation for that. (That Lenin was "hoping to build off of the Paris Commune and make something better" seems like a highly controversial statement.)
The one about the German myth of the east or whatever it was? How was that?I know, I was considering reading that for my WWI class. Instead I picked Liulevicius's book.
I was writing about Petain and Vichy in another thread and must have had him on the brain.Considering Petain was 15 years old, he seems an unlikely candidate, as does Clemenceau who took part in the commune.
The one about how German perceptions of "The East" were shaped by WWI. And it was excellent. A nice balance of original research and clever analysis.The one about the German myth of the east or whatever it was? How was that?
I'd like to see a citation for that. (That Lenin was "hoping to build off of the Paris Commune and make something better" seems like a highly controversial statement.)
Hmm. Eeeenteresting.The one about how German perceptions of "The East" were shaped by WWI. And it was excellent. A nice balance of original research and clever analysis.
particularly good works that discuss the Curragh mutiny
Not really unfortunately.Question: do you - or anybody else, really - know of any particularly good works that discuss the Curragh mutiny?
What exactly is your PhD on? The most useful languages you listed there are Italian and Latin, but their use to you is obviously dependent upon what exactly you're studying. At a glance, I'd say Gaelic and Yiddish would be next to useless to you unless you were studying something very specific. I'm Jewish and several of my family speak Yiddish. I don't think I've ever seen any of them write anything in it, and I've yet to meet a Yiddish-speaker that didn't also speak other languages.Not really unfortunately.
Heres one that has been wracking my brain for months. I've been trying to figure out what will be my third language to learn for my PhD, and I have ahem narrowed the list down to the following options: Italian, Yiddish, Gaelic and Latin, and I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion to help narrow this down.
Latin is immensely useful for anything pertaining to history and philosophy from 300 BC to AD 1600. It also improves your English.