rec request
Jul. 13th, 2025 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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booknookCan anyone recommend a non-fiction book about the Napoleonic Wars that's more focused on the sociology and politics of the era than the nitty gritty of the battles? High level overviews of the various engagements are fine but my eyes glaze over when confronted with twenty pages of detailed battle descriptions and military tactics. Unfortunately most people who write war histories tend to want to talk way more about that sort of thing than I have patience for.
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Date: 2025-07-13 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-07-13 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-07-13 06:57 pm (UTC)How about:
Politics:
The age of revolution : Europe, 1789-1848 - Hobsbawm
Regency Spies: Secret Histories of Britain's Rebels & Revolutionaries - Sue Wilkes
Sociology (England-specific):
Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era - James Hobson
Dark Days of Georgian Britain: Rethinking the Regency - James Hobson
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England - Amanda Vickery (long 18th century including Napoleonic Wars period)
English society in the eighteenth century - Roy Porter (long 18th century including Napoleonic Wars period, as far as I remember)
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Date: 2025-07-13 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-07-14 01:06 am (UTC)Good luck!
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Date: 2025-07-16 04:50 pm (UTC)