Which book are you reading now? Volume XI

[Flying Pig]

Doesn't the presence of a king suggest a Maori state?

A state that is Maori, for sure, but not a 'Maori state' in the sense that the Maori collectively had a state.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

My search for a general history of Nigeria at Robarts failed. Oh well, something else for now.

I Know Who You Are and Saw What You Did by Lori Andrews, is about "Social Networks and Death of Privacy", as its subtitle says. Really vindicates my policy of scarce use of social media and being careful about my identity online. However, nearly every website on the Web carries data mining software that you can do little about. And many courts in the US see nothing wrong with allowing the invisible hand of the online free market to fist its users.

 

[Masada]

I've found that Africa (outside of say Kenya and South Africa) is poorly serviced by general histories.

A state that is Maori, for sure, but not a 'Maori state' in the sense that the Maori collectively had a state.

So was the Greek state, not a Greek state until the population transfers of the 1920s because a lot of Greeks still lived in the Ottoman Empire?

 

[FriendlyFire]

The Owner Trilogy

Departure
Zero point
Jupiter War

 

[Flying Pig]

I've found that Africa (outside of say Kenya and South Africa) is poorly serviced by general histories.



So was the Greek state, not a Greek state until the population transfers of the 1920s because a lot of Greeks still lived in the Ottoman Empire?

I'm more thinking that Prussia, Hannover and Baden were German states, but neither was 'the German state'.

 

[Masada]

In your view, is that because those states didn't capture all (or most) of the German population or because those states didn't have pretensions to being the German state?

 

[Flying Pig]

I suppose it's more the former than the latter, but it's also the fact that many 'German states' existed, which would have rendered any claims to being 'the German state' rather frail. Talking about a Maori king suggests the existence of a Prussia ('a German king rules in Berlin') but not the existence of Germany ('but one also rules in Hannover')

 

[Masada]

Fair enough. I think was, historically, more like the Greek case than the German case. It's not unreasonable to talk about the Maori King having the allegiance of something like half of Maori.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I've found that Africa (outside of say Kenya and South Africa) is poorly serviced by general histories.

Even Nigeria, which is pretty significant within Africa? I'll have to settle for South Africa and regional histories for a general approach then.

 

[Masada]

Africa is more poorly serviced in my experience than Southeast Asia for country level studies and regional histories.

 

[Flying Pig]

The fact that you quite regularly see books titled 'a History of Africa' which are no thicker than the histories of Ancient Greece or the American Civil War on my shelf really tells you something.

 

[Darth Caesar]

Read Fahrenheit 451. Very good, through uncomfortable to read at times (Even moreso than 1984) due to the similarities between the book and modern American society. Though I was surprised at

Spoiler :

The hopeful and positive ending

 

[Silv Something]

I just finished the five books of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Didn't quite live up to my expectations. I have heard a lot about it but I wasn't rolling on the floor laughing. But entertaining nonetheless.
*I think I probably missed half the jokes.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

To See the Dawn: Baku, 1920, First Congress of the Peoples of the East - ed. by John Riddell
Congress of the Peoples of the East: Baku, September 1920. Stenographic Report. - Translated and annotated by Brian Pearce.

Cool stuff. Beginnings of Third World orientation for communism. Essential for my thesis.

 

[Mouthwash]

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West - Tom Holland

The best work of history I've ever come across; far better than Peter Green. I judge it less on scholarship than narrative, and I have to say no other history book has even tried to give me a picture of the world it takes place in.

 

[Flying Pig]

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West - Tom Holland

The best work of history I've ever come across; far better than Peter Green. I judge it less on scholarship than narrative, and I have to say no other history book has even tried to give me a picture of the world it takes place in.

Wise decision. He's translated Herodotus very well - I remember reading one review which complained that on one instance he'd confused an aorist (the noose tightened) with an imperfect (the noose began to tighten), and thinking that if that's the only mistake that they could find then he must have done a good job.

 

[Cutlass]

At Home by Bill Bryson. I've heard a number of interesting things about it, and so wanted to give it a try. I'm not deep into it enough yet to form an opinion.

 

[Oruc]

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West - Tom Holland

The best work of history I've ever come across; far better than Peter Green. I judge it less on scholarship than narrative, and I have to say no other history book has even tried to give me a picture of the world it takes place in.

I've read that aswell ,very enjoyable. The other book of his I read Rubicon was quite good.
You may also enjoy "Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean" by Roger Crowley, from what I remember it had a similar style.

 

[Antilogic]

I think I have the British version of that book, my cover looks different but upon some checking it's the same text. I read it a couple years ago and quite enjoyed it.

 

[Mouthwash]

Wise decision. He's translated Herodotus very well - I remember reading one review which complained that on one instance he'd confused an aorist (the noose tightened) with an imperfect (the noose began to tighten), and thinking that if that's the only mistake that they could find then he must have done a good job.

Is reading those ancient historians directly worth it?