(Part 2) Best italian history books according to redditors

There's a litany of reasons one could point to: cultural, historical, philosophical, etc., but I think a better way of looking at it is around the 15th or 16th centuries, the Islamic world was no longer advancing as quickly as Europe. Basically, with new trade routes and colonial enterprises (not to mention Continental warfare), Europe vastly increased the rate of scientific and technological progress. The Islamic world was still moving forward, just not as quickly.

Once Europeans had the edge in terms of money and technology, they put ever-increasing support into the things they thought responsible: science and empire. Once you had that feedback loop established, the rest of the world had little chance of overtaking them. The Islamic world had several different "centers" of science, all at different places and times in the Middle Ages, so they hadn't so clearly established it in the first place.

Edit: A reasonable source on this (if you're interested in the history of astronomy) is Saliba's Islam and the Making of the European Renaissance.

My grandmother used to have this book of ancient Rome with photos of the current ruins, and clear plastic pages with artwork of the structure in its prime. They left what remained clear and 'painted' in the missing pieces.

I loved that book.

edit: HOLY SHIT I FOUND IT!!

Here's a very well-written book about the Rise and the Fall of the Venetian Trade Empire, which I probably enjoyed much more through having played EU4:


Roger Crowley: City of Fortune

I hear his other books are good as well, but I haven't read them yet.

> feminism doesn't demand men and women be treated equally, rather, it demands that women be treated equal to men.

That is a distinction without a difference. Unless that difference is to say that women must be treated as the equal of men in all things, but the reverse is not true, which would be blatant and obvious sexism.

> As men have always had the upper hand

So the fact that the vast majority of people who were murdered, have died on the job, been thrown in prison, etc, going back to the dawn of time, were men means that we had the upper hand? Please explain to me how that works, how me having the upper hand gets me killed or incarcerated. Is prison like some sort of resort? Is the afterlife really that amazing?

It sounds like you've been subjected to some disgustingly biased material. There's plenty of it, dating back to the 16th century, when Lucrezia Marinella published, not just wrote, but published, "The nobility and excellence of woman and the defects and vices of men." That sure is an anti-female bias, there, that a woman could get such an obviously adropathic book published, and that it would still be around more than four centuries later...

> I've dismissed the fact they are due to sexism

And thus you do not even attempt to meet my challenge. You defend, without any evidence that your assertions are correct, yet when I do the exact same thing, you admit to dismissing it out of hand. That, my friend, means I have to break rule V and state that I have reason to believe that you are arguing in bad faith.

The Companion to Medieval Genoa and Medieval and Renaissance Venice.

Price alert, though.

Is that what these are? The release date is different. I like the look.

They may have introductions that could be different lengths, different fonts, and some books like that have footnotes, which can add to page counts.

But the biggest difference here is probably just the size of the page. The paperback is "198mm x 10mm x 129mm" and the hardback is "174mm x 25mm x 113mm". It's smaller in size, so it has to be thicker/have more pages.

(Even the same edition can vary a few pages between paperback and hardback, though.)

ETA: Looking on Amazon, it looks like the paperback intro is by Anthony Grafton and the hardcover intro is by Tim Parks, the translator. I also see Coralie Bickford-Smith listed as an illustrator on the hardcover, so there may be some illustrations in that copy as well. (She may have just done the cover, though. I can't tell from the listing.) -- https://www.amazon.com/Prince-Penguin-Classics-Hardcover/dp/0141395877/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3V3C9Y5CWNG33&keywords=the+prince+penguin+classics&qid=1566404430&s=books&sprefix=the+prince+penguin+%2Cstripbooks%2C203&sr=1-3

Well, the books that I enjoyed the most about Albania are the ones written by Mrs. Edith Durham. Maybe it's just me but it was hard to put them down. I'm putting here a list with the links to Amazon.
High Albania, The Struggle for Scutari, The Burden Of The Balkans and Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle. And then there is this one by Noel Malcolm that I have to read yet called Agents Of Empire but judging by the other book he wrote about Kosovo it should be a good read.

Yes, actually, it is, because it focuses on the fact that the people in power are men, rather than the fact that they're in power.

What's more, defense of the term in the face of a more accurate term (kyriarchy) is misandristic because it attempts to perpetuate that inaccurate idea despite it being pointed out that there is something else even more significant going on, focusing entirely on the fact that the people in power happen to have a particular chromosomal structure.

> But they fight against replacing it with the word egalitarianism because that would imply that gender disparities are equal

Wow, there are a lot of presuppositions to unpack from that statement. It presupposes that the -ism is about the starting point, rather than the goal, which is, quite frankly, stupid (I mean, really, did people really think that communists believed we currently held property as a community?). It further presupposes that it cannot be the case that the inequalities might actually be roughly equal. Then, to top it all off, it presupposes that any inequalities men suffer are somehow of less concern without even looking at them.

This goes back to a blatant derision of men that dates back a full Four Centuries, assuming that anything bad that happens to men is something they deserve, and anything good happening to women is something they're entitled to. Hell, even in the 1920's, when women were only recently allowed to vote, it was seen as somehow okay for a woman to murder a man who decided not to marry her

So no, I'm sorry, that very thought is wholly predicated on the idea, the presupposition, even, that men aren't of equal concern to women. The fact that I cannot make such an assertion without people coming out of the woodwork to argue with me, yet women can expect a gender reversal of the same concerns to draw out similar levels of support makes a lie of your assertion that it is women who lack power.

i'm working through the stack i just got for my birthday - just finished Too Like the Lightning, which was amazing and I would love to talk about it forever. now i'm reading Agents of Empire; it's a veeeery dense but veeeery good account of an Albanian/Venitian family and how they got tangled in the Ottoman/Venitian/Italian politics of the 1500s. that's a period of history i know nothing about, so it's really cool to learn about it.

I'm an autodidact. I bought three volumes of the JACT Cambridge Reading Greek:

Grammary, Vocabulary and Exercises

Text

An indipendent guide

You can buy them on Amazon.

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E.g, https://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/159/author_id/75/

or https://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/136/author_id/39/

Make sure you get the key to the exercises. Work methodically through the books without cutting corners. Feel free to ask for help here.

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http://www.amazon.it/La-Bella-Figura-Field-Italian/dp/0767914406

Interesting stuff. I recently finished Empire on the Adriatric. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in Italy during WWII or occupation in general.

It's a typo (actually three typos ;))

254 pagine, disponibile (eg) su amazon a €15,30 il cartaceo, €9,99 in formato kindle.

Se devi fare la marchetta, falla bene :-D

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u/OpossumNelNettare, puoi spiegare brevemente perchè lo consigli?

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You can buy it on amazon in kindle version, download the kindle app on your device, pc, or whatever else, and begin reading.

https://www.amazon.com/Italy-Monarchy-Denis-Mack-Smith-ebook/dp/B00IH19B8Q

Currently in my first semester of Ancient Greek at Uni, after two years of Latin. It's hard. Like others have mentioned, this is partly due to a new alphabet which just makes it harder to recognise works.

We use the JACT Reading Greek books. There's three: a grammar and exercises, text and vocabulary and an independent study guide. (There's also an ancient Greek history one but that's not really necessary) They all work together and get you to learn by reading from the start - one book talks you through the grammar whilst the other has corresponding reading passages. This makes the endless tables of grammar far more relevant. Also the independent study guide helps you through the tricky bits of a translation where it would be nice to have a teacher to explain it to you. But they're still not a substitute for a tutor.

Good luck!

I'm trying to understand what, specifically, Peterson has in common with a political philosophy that's been more or less dead since the 1940s. You're not actually providing an answer, you are simply asserting that Peterson is a fascist and expecting me to accept it as truth. This is not how you present an argument, this is how cults operate. And forgive me for jumping to conclusions, but it also leads me to believe that you have no clue what Fascism actually is.

I'm feeling generous today though, so I'll help you out. Read up on the basics, come back when you actually know what you're talking about, and I'll be happy to hear your argument.

La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind https://www.amazon.it/dp/0767914406/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_NQeozbDZ8NWNF

This is not to show you how good they are at English and much they appreciate your Italian. No offence is meant. Italy is my third immigration and it is the same everywhere. Unless racist. Like "It is America. We speak English here".