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hobo
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PDX
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 27, 2007 - 10:34pm PT
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Please Advise.
Alex
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Mar 27, 2007 - 10:44pm PT
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What sort of history?
I found Cod very informative!
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hobo
climber
PDX
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 27, 2007 - 10:46pm PT
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World History. Books about important events in our lifetime. What is Cod about?
Alex
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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Mar 27, 2007 - 10:47pm PT
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Eyewitness to History - It is a collection of firsthand journalism spanning the history of the written word, from the death of socrates to the carter era iirc...amazing stuff...
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G_Gnome
Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
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Mar 27, 2007 - 10:47pm PT
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Unintended Consequences.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 27, 2007 - 10:49pm PT
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So you all have read history books.
What you all actually learn from them is most important.
What did you you all actually learn?
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Ouch!
climber
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:00pm PT
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Doonesbury
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:06pm PT
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learn ? we don't learn, that's why history always repeats...
(though maybe i learned the written word can carry a timeless power, and i'm continually amazed at how cruel we are to each other *all the time*...astounding, really...)
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:13pm PT
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Witness to a Century, George Seldes
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MisterE
Social climber
White Van, AZ
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:20pm PT
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
"Those that do not understand history are destined to repeat it."
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:20pm PT
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Cod : A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World) is about cod. Well, it's about the history of the world as it relates to cod. We apparently have the cod to thank for the world as we know it today.
Don't bother with Salt : A World History). It's a wishes it could follow up on the success of Cod and fails. Mostly, I think, beause we already know that everything happened because of cod... and what, now we're supposed to believe it all happened because of salt? Unlikely!!
As a native New Yorker, and a marine biologist who studied the invasion of the oyster in Puget Sound and the return of the oyster in New York Harbor as part of my PhD thesis, I did enjoy Mark Kurlansky's most recent book, The Big Oyster : History on the Half Shell (which is basically about the history of NYC as it relates to the oyster).
here's Cod:
http://www.amazon.com/Cod-Biography-Fish-Changed-World/dp/0140275010
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:21pm PT
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RE:
" learn ? we don't learn, that's why history always repeats... "
like a knife
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:22pm PT
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Camp 4!!!
*edit* And probably Watership Down too I guess.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:23pm PT
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yo I read lots about snoop and really agree with a lot of what he says...
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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:24pm PT
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Right now I am presently working my way through the following. Just looking around my desk right now I see.
The Modern Middle East; James Gelvin
Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East; Akram Khater
Ordeal by Fire; James McPherson
Miracle at Philadelphia; Catherine Drinker (how was I not named that?Hey its 5:30 time for some vino! Cheers!)
The Glorious Revolution; Robert Middlekauf
More Problems in the Era of the American Revolution 1760 – 1791; Richard Brown
Slavery; Elkins
Slave Religion; Raboteau
They are all OK, Ordeal by Fire is well written but deals with a pretty crappy time in our country’s history. Glorious Revolution is a good read. I can’t wait till I am done reading text books. These are my last three history classes and I’ll have my BS. Only 19 years late.
Aloha,
wil
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:28pm PT
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'Rats, Lice, and History' is also a weird one...
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ADK
climber
truckee
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:29pm PT
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a peoples history of the us
Zinn
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john hansen
climber
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:31pm PT
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Probably read thousands of them.. Any thing by Stephen Ambrose is fairly good, and of course the last fourty years of American Alpine Journal.
The best though... hmmm
S Ambrose Book about D day
One about Grants campaigns in the civil war
S Ambrose Book about Lewis and Clark
Any of a hundred on the exploration of the American west
One on Chief Joseph, one on Red Cloud , and one about the Pine Ridge Reservation and the American Indian Movement during the 70's with Dennis Bank's, Lenard Peltier ect.and many about the early indian conflicts in New England in the 16 and 1700's.
Jamestown , the gold rush, the exploration of the Amazon Basin and the arctic regions. Captian Cook and all those world explores like , Vitus Bering, Admunsen, Scott ,Franklin, Mackinzie, Stanley, Shackelton, De Gama, Magellen, Drake, Marco Polo . And many written by ex POW's and internees, escape's from death camps ect.
There are hundreds of books about each of these subjects
Way too many to pick just one,,, get reading.
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John Moosie
climber
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Mar 27, 2007 - 11:45pm PT
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Gandhi The Man by Eknath Easwaran
Learned about civil rights, non-cooperation, non violence, nonresistence. Also learned about the history of India. Beautiful. Very informative.
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