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#1
Posted 25 November 2018 - 12:34 AM

#2
Posted 25 November 2018 - 06:15 AM

https://www.amazon.c...ASIN=B000XJNDO8
First book of the ww2 volume.
Separate volume for ww1.
If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
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#3
Posted 25 November 2018 - 02:07 PM

The United States:
The European Discovery of America – The Northern Voyages, Samuel Eliot Morrison
Savage Kingdom, Benjamin Woolley
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776 – 1787, Gordon Wood
The Contours of American History, William Appleman Williams
North and South America:
1491, Charles Mann
Stolen Continents, Ronald Wright
Great Britain:
The Isles- A History, Norman Davies
The Century of Revolution, 1614 – 1714, Christopher Hill
The Making of the English Working Class, E.P. Thompson
Spain:
The Ornament of the World, Maria Rosa Menocal
China:
The Unknown Story of Mao, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
World
Silk Roads – A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan
The principles of justice define an appropriate path between dogmatism and intolerance on the one side, and a reductionism which regards religion and morality as mere preferences on the other. - John Rawls
#4
Posted 26 November 2018 - 06:42 PM

I've read many of them, of course, but big part is about Russia / written by Russian authors / in Russian language.
As for world history, i highly recommend one of books i've recently read: "Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism" by Perry Anderson. Its theme is both wider and deeper than just "passages". Author (marxist) describing and comparing the economic basis of different ancient (slavery-based) and medieval (feudal) societies and its impact on their politics and culture.
What was the impact of widespread slavery on ancient philosophy and labor ethic? Why Greeks failed to create the empire while Romans succeeded? Why seemingly advanced Byzantium stuck halfway from slavery to feudalism and fell into social stagnation? And so on... you may not agree with author in some things, but this is still very interesting reading.
#5
Posted 26 November 2018 - 08:05 PM

Also, there is A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals by Neil Faulkner. A bit too Trotskyite for my tastes when it comes to analysing 20th Century socialist states, but the rest of it is pretty decent and comprehensive. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is another zinger.
#6
Posted 20 February 2019 - 05:36 PM

Just finished a very good (though aready a bit outdated) book "Dawn of civilization. Africa in ancient world" by Y.M. Kobishanov. This is one of few (i mean, literally few) Russian non-fiction books about precolonial Africa. In this regard, Africa is indeed "black area", compared to hundreds and thousands of books about Greece, Rome, Babylon, India, China, etc...
In short, it was interesting and broke some of my stereotypes Ancient and medieval Africa was described more developed (cities, trade routes, metallurgy, widespread feudalism) than I expected, and medieval kingdoms of West Africa were at par with Europe. At the same time, this is not "afrocentic" (in the bad sense of this word) book and author himself mocks afrocentrists with their "we lived in harmony and wisdom and then the White Devil stole this all". One way or another, the real History is better than any myths (even bright and inspiring ones).
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