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Anon09/08/26, 19:07No.18679422

I’m reading The Soviet Afghan War by the Russian General Staff, a post war analysis of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, meant as a post action analysis of what worked and what didn’t during the war by the former Soviet Command Staff for future study, especially for fighting insurgencies. When I have time I’ll give a breakdown of what I learned it’s a really interesting book.

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Anon09/08/26, 19:19No.18679437

Currently reading Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die by Tom Gallagher. Some books I recommend are The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky, A short History of Mozambique by Mayln Newitt, and We Shall Be Masters: Russian pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin by Chris Miller

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Anon09/08/26, 21:01No.18679638

For now its "Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times : Soviet Russia in the 1930s" by Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Anon09/08/26, 21:58No.18679778

C. R. Boxer's "The Golden Age of Brazil, 1695 - 1750." 475 pages. Not too far in (40 pages). It's a bit dry but not bad.

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Anon09/08/26, 22:07No.18679805

Any book recs on the reformation in Scotland?

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Anon09/09/26, 00:16No.18680139

Plutarchs works on Sparta. Last I read was on Song China called The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China, it’s part of a series I’ve found is very good. Sometimes I wish there was more narrative but it is a survey introduction that gives it about 100 pages for narrative. I also can’t afford the Cambridge history of China which is supposed to be the superior definitive works on China in English

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Anon09/09/26, 06:06No.18680599

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Anon09/09/26, 06:40No.18680616

What are some good books on the industrial revolution?

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Anon09/09/26, 06:52No.18680622

Not reading anything with history at the moment but finished The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han by Mark Edward Lewis, relatively recently. Really good and goes over just about every detail such as geography, state, military, society, law, religion, literature, etc. The only downside is that it's ridiculously short given just how much is being discussed at only 264 pages, so everything is rather concise but still good as an entry point.

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Anon09/09/26, 07:19No.18680655

good books on prehistory or the concept of prehistory and books on the history of social engineering?

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Anon09/09/26, 07:32No.18680668

My last /his/ book was, "The Fight for Canada: Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism", by David Orchard.Orchard is a little bit of a schizo/"The American Question" type of person, but I respect his legacy and his position as one of the few remaining unironic pre-internet Canadian Nationalists & political thinkers. It's been a month or two since I finished it, but it's essentially a book of grudges against American economic expansion into Canada and a scathing fucking critique of NAFTA and CUSFTA going over in meticulous detail how both acts completely demilitarized and deindustrialized Canada: funneling billions of dollars worth of assets, intelligence, manufacturing, into America and flooded the country with cheap American & Mexican imports, we were now dependent upon, and made possible the acquisition of hundreds of Canadian companies by American owners (particularly oil companies).It's really quite interesting because I find more and more books like this one, and Lament of a Nation, where plenty of other quite prominent Canadian thinkers were audibly addressing the sliding "cultural and economic" conditions that were steering us closer and closer to being a do-nothing, know-nothing, identity-less gas-station that only exists at the convenience of America. Only for this nationalistic group to get fucking utterly deleted, memory holed, sometime in the 80's as the federal government moved in lockstep towards neoliberalist continentalism with the States at the head. Even now, as we live and breath, Canadian nationalism idpol does not exist: only existing as reactionary liberal movement that ultimately pines for a return to the "normal" of 2015 American cultural hedgemony. It's all so unflattering.

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Anon09/09/26, 09:45No.18680761

Anyone good books on the change from Latin to its descendants?

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