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Any books / authors for European history, between 16th - 19th century

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Verge by Patrick Wyman, covers 1490-1530 and some of the wild shit that happened around then in western europe

The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi, covers about 700 years of cycles of mercantile/capitalist hegemonic ascendency and decline

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not history but I'm going through Germinal by Emille Zola right now and it's VERY late 19th century. It's one of the books the disco elysium people listed as inspiration for the game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Dostoevsky is good if depressing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Fererici: about the disciplining of feudal animists to create a workforce. Very cool stuff.

Fossil Capital - Andreas Malm - based on his PhD thesis, it's a history of the transition of water power to coal power in the 19th century and how the decision to move towards coal was not because it was cheaper or more efficient but because it allowed greater control by capitalists over their workers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

thanks v much stalin-heart

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, you want history books. I was going to dig into my list of 18th and 19th century Gothic classics...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

only history this time I fear kitty-birthday-sad