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About meI'm a retired Foreign Service Officer, back in Seattle (since mid-2008) after roaming the world for 30 years. Retirement allows me to indulge my love of history, which constitutes nearly my entire library. My academic training, lo those many years ago, was in East Asian history, but these days I focus more on American history, especially the post-Civil War 19th century and all of the 20th century. Reflecting my professional experience, diplomatic and economic studies account for sizeable shares of my collection. After researching and writing for the government for so many years, I would like to write history for myself. Just need to find an interesting (and relatively unmined) topic!
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Mary
posted by urania1 at 11:10 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2009
I have been trying without success to get some feedback to the following question on several of the LT forums in which I participate. Given that you use the tag "military" frequently, you may feel that my question is either impertinent or stupid. I apologize. Several of your reviews on matters Japanese impressed me, so here goes:
I would like recommendations for Japanese histories, written by both insiders and outsiders. I realize history is a broad term here, so feel free to limit your suggestions although at least one good survey would be nice. One more note, I prefer cultural and intellectual histories to histories whose plot runs as follows: First X came into power. His grandson was deposed by Family Y during a war. Then followed Kings A, B, and C, after which there was more war and so on and so on. I realize that one cannot completely excise war from history books. But textbook surveys of this sort reduce me to the serious contemplation of wrist slitting :-)
posted by urania1 at 5:51 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2009
posted by SankofaAckee at 4:05 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2008