Looking For Books on Various Subjects

[garbon]

Anyway, before we went down the rabbit hole, I should have stated that my issue with the date was more in line with how hard he has been looking for a book.  Top hit by keyword on Amazon and was published 45 years ago.

[CountDeMoney]

Somebody's pants is a dairy factory.

Bactria growth can be right nasty.

[citizen k]

I doubt Bactria has had a lot happening since 1966, so that is probably okay.

Ai Khanoum would have been unknown to Tarn.

[Razgovory]

I always wanted to find a good book on Cortez and the fall of the Aztecs.  Everything I find is about how evil Europeans crushed a beautiful native culture.  Bleh.

[Queequeg]

Psellus is kind of lame. If I go to the Books section on Amazon and type in Bactria - that Tarn book is the first hit.

It was also published in 1966..

This is fair, actually.  Given the near-total dearth of literature on Sassanian and Parthian Persia, I presumed that the literature on the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom was similarly limited.  Seems that was flawed. 

I've seen a lot of books on Alexander's campaign, but few on Bactria before. Now I'm getting two for my birthday, I think.

[garbon]

I always wanted to find a good book on Cortez and the fall of the Aztecs.  Everything I find is about how evil Europeans crushed a beautiful native culture.  Bleh.

It's not like Cortez has a great deal of stuff in his favor.

[alfred russel]

If I am going to read books about antiquity centered in that part of the world, I'm not so concerned about a somewhat old date of publication. The instability has kept away a lot of the archeology, so the scholarship is somewhat frozen in time.

You're right. There have been no discoveries in remote areas since the '60s. Nor have their been any shift in attitudes that may help or hinder understanding of what we do have in archeological records.

It isn't that they are remote, it is that they are dangerous. I'm reading a book on Elam (mostly Iran, but also parts of Iraq), and the archeology basically ended about 30 years ago. That may be more extreme than Bactria, but I doubt Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some of the sketchy-est parts of the former USSR had a lot of digs going on.

As for a shift in attitudes, that isn't such a big deal. Bactria is an obscure enough topic the number of researchers is probably quite limited anyway, and the books are going to present a sizeable chunk of archeological evidence. You can come to your own conclusions, especially if you are familiar with current thought on the general era (as I assume spellus is).

[Razgovory]

I always wanted to find a good book on Cortez and the fall of the Aztecs.  Everything I find is about how evil Europeans crushed a beautiful native culture.  Bleh.

It's not like Cortez has a great deal of stuff in his favor.

He won.

[garbon]

If I am going to read books about antiquity centered in that part of the world, I'm not so concerned about a somewhat old date of publication. The instability has kept away a lot of the archeology, so the scholarship is somewhat frozen in time.

You're right. There have been no discoveries in remote areas since the '60s. Nor have their been any shift in attitudes that may help or hinder understanding of what we do have in archeological records.

It isn't that they are remote, it is that they are dangerous. I'm reading a book on Elam (mostly Iran, but also parts of Iraq), and the archeology basically ended about 30 years ago. That may be more extreme than Bactria, but I doubt Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some of the sketchy-est parts of the former USSR had a lot of digs going on.

As for a shift in attitudes, that isn't such a big deal. Bactria is an obscure enough topic the number of researchers is probably quite limited anyway, and the books are going to present a sizeable chunk of archeological evidence. You can come to your own conclusions, especially if you are familiar with current thought on the general era (as I assume spellus is).

Right, well have fun with those delusions.

[alfred russel]

Right, well have fun with those delusions.

What delusions are those?

[The Brain]

I always wanted to find a good book on Cortez and the fall of the Aztecs.  Everything I find is about how evil Europeans crushed a beautiful native culture.  Bleh.

Did you read The Conquest of New Spain by Diaz?

[Eddie Teach]

It's not like Cortez has a great deal of stuff in his favor.

He had God on his side.

The cannons didn't hurt either.

[Queequeg]

I'm reading a book on Elam

Name?  Any good?

[ulmont]

Anybody got a recommendation for books on the Foreign Legion?

[Razgovory]

I'm reading a book on Elam

Name?  Any good?

I'm kind of interested as well.  There's very little written about Elam.  Is their language even translated?