Grand unified books thread

[sbr]

Anyone read the Chernow Hamilton book?

Yeah a long time ago, probably shortly after it was released.  Very good.

[sbr]

Pre-ordered The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan, of History of Rome and Revolutions podcast fame.

I am 99.9% sure that this is the first book I have ever pre-ordered.

[Habbaku]

Not my first pre-order, but I ordered that as well. Looking forward to it. 

Also looking forward to Alison Weir's Queens of the Conquest, which should be here soon.

[jimmy olsen]

Hello, you've reach the U.S. Air force evacuation line. Please wait for the next available representative.

In Sejong, well short of the DMZ. Unfortunately 150m from the massive government complex there. It houses the departments of Strategic Affairs, Infrastructure, Finance, etc. So it's not the best place for me to be.

[Gups]

Anyone read the Chernow Hamilton book?

Finished it last week. Well-written and very solid research. First half is a bit hagiographic, he seems to have fallen hopelessly in lover with his subject. Becomes more balanced later. He gives a really good kicking to Adams and Jefferson. Hamilton's energy and incredible intellect does shine through.

Probably a couple of hundred pages too long. I could have done with less about his personal life personally.

[Malthus]

Pre-ordered The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan, of History of Rome and Revolutions podcast fame.

I am 99.9% sure that this is the first book I have ever pre-ordered.

Oh, nice. I loved his podcasts.

[Valmy]

Everybody should hear his French Revolution one. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Directory but were afraid to ask.

I pre-ordered the book as well. I usually buy something from his fund raisers every year and I am reasonably sure the book is the fund raiser this year.

[crazy canuck]

Everybody should hear his French Revolution one. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Directory but were afraid to ask.

I pre-ordered the book as well. I usually buy something from his fund raisers every year and I am reasonably sure the book is the fund raiser this year.

His most recent podcasts on the rebellions of the 1800s in Europe are also very good.

I will also be getting his book.  I have been looking forward to it ever since he announced the start of the project.

[Ed Anger]

I'll be damned if I call Pusan "busan".

[Eddie Teach]

People said the same thing about Peking. 

[crazy canuck]

The Fate of Rome - an engaging read which explains the factors which brought an end to the Empire in the West.  One Imperial thumb up.

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11079.html

[crazy canuck]

Storm Before the Storm is now available and on my e-reader

[sbr]

Mine was available at the bookstore on Thursday but I didn't have tine to go get it until today, heading over after work.

[Habbaku]

Mine's sitting in my mailbox.

[jimmy olsen]

You know, having finished War Before Civilization, it implies that war with China is even more inevitible than I thought, especially under the current leadership.

Basically, the more heavily tribes traded with each other, the more likely they were to go to war with each other unless they voluntarily established arbitrary monolopies (i.e. one tribe produces pottery, one produces obsidian blades, etc.). The breaking of such monopolies almost inevitably lead to war.

Chinese dominance in manufacturing and Trump's determination to break that comes to mind.