Adeeb Khalid presents a very readable history of a specific time and place - Central Asia under Tsarist Russia and through the revolution
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hermes.tetramegistus rated America: 4 stars
hermes.tetramegistus rated History of the Devil: 5 stars
hermes.tetramegistus finished reading History of the Devil by Vilém Flusser
hermes.tetramegistus started reading History of the Devil by Vilém Flusser
hermes.tetramegistus finished reading A people's tragedy by Orlando Figes
Niche, but good
5 stars
hermes.tetramegistus stopped reading What hath God wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford history of the United States)
A social and political history of the United States from the end of the War …
Barely started this, way back then
hermes.tetramegistus stopped reading Children of ash and elm : a history of the Vikings by Neil Price
It was a little too dry/archaeological (and the narrator of the audiobook I was listening to did it few favors)
hermes.tetramegistus rated Fossil Legends of the First Americans: 4 stars
hermes.tetramegistus rated The Power Broker: 5 stars
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The …
hermes.tetramegistus rated Unfabling the East: 5 stars
hermes.tetramegistus rated Ottomans: 4 stars
Ottomans by Marc David Baer
A history of the Ottoman Empire from before Osman I in the 1280s until after Abdülmecid II in 1924.
