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YukariYakum0 t1_j9mphur wrote

Reply to comment by aroccarian in Bookclub and Sources Wednesday! by AutoModerator

I have

Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Queen Lilioukalani

Elizabeth: Struggle for the Throne by David Starkey

Catherine the Great by Robert Massie(he has more on Russian history; Peter the Great and the Romanovs)

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Wellgoodmornin t1_j9mjlt1 wrote

Reply to comment by jcrave in The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

But that's pretty much par for the course for things like that, right? Everyone knows Lord Carnarvon found King Tuts tomb but no one knows who the guys digging were. Not that it should be that way it just is.

It would be really interesting if they had a journal or something from one of the slaves as unlikely as that would be, but this is essentially "People used slaves to dig holes in 18th century America" which is pretty expected.

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jayhawk1941 t1_j9mibap wrote

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I’m currently re-reading “The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy” by Adam Tooze. It’s one of the best books I’ve read on (mostly) pre-WWII Nazi Germany. It requires a bit of background knowledge to follow along with the major players, but it’s a fascinating look at the reasons behind many of the foreign and domestic policy decisions of the Nazis. As you might imagine, everything hinged on autarky, with the ultimate goal of improving Germany’s standard of living with that of their neighbors, but especially the US. The book is thoroughly researched and provides the reader with incredible facts and figures. One of my favorite tidbits is that the Volkswagen (literal “People’s Car”) project never came to fruition, with not a single one ever being delivered to those who had put down monthly deposits.

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ThunderStorm2137 t1_j9mghgv wrote

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Read Taking Pairs: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights by Martin Dugard this week. Solid book, not super in depth, but did a nice job hitting major events and giving various perspectives of many of those involved. I did like that it had some information from the perspective from Charles de Gaulle however. I don't know a whole lot about him because he seems to often get glossed over in many WWII books. Going to read Taking Berlin by the same author this week.

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jcrave t1_j9mgfvq wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People by nemo_to_zero

Meh, it’s giving credit to people involved in the process their proper due. I think that’s fair. If you read the article, it talks about how paleontologists in the mid 20th century downplayed the role slaves and natives played in the process and how it’s affected minority diversity within the geo-science community in the present.

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