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Summer Reading Recommendations Jul 11, 2024

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It's summer, which means it's time for some pleasure reading! Here are seven books that Patrick is recommending for your next summer reads:

1) Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

2) Joel F. Harrington, The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

3) Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

4) Paul M. Cobb, The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

5) Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

6) Bernard Fall, Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina

7) James Romm, Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire.

Patrick's book is now available! Get The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWverge. And check out Patrick's new podcast The Pursuit of Dadliness! It’s all about “Dad Culture,” and Patrick will interview some fascinating guests about everything from tall wooden ships to smoked meats to comfortable sneakers to history, sports, culture, and politics. https://bit.ly/PWtPoD

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The Roman Conquest of Italy Jul 04, 2024

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At the beginning of the 4th century BC, Rome was still not the dominant force in Latium, the small region surrounding the city; by the end of that century, Rome was the dominant power in all of Italy. How did that happen? The answer lies not so much in conquest as cooperation.

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The Great Gender Divergence: Interview with Dr. Alice Evans Jun 27, 2024

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Gender is one of the fundamental forces structuring our world, but its impact is uneven in time and space. Dr. Alice Evans joins me to talk about the enormous strides toward gender equality that have defined the world in the past century or so, which she terms the Great Gender Divergence.

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Rome's Patrician Republic Jun 20, 2024

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By 450 BC, the Roman Republic was beginning to take on the outlines of a form we recognize, with elected magistrates, a Senate, and written laws. But these were hard times for Rome, and there was no guarantee that the city would even dominate its immediate area, much less Italy and beyond.

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The Birth of the Roman Republic Jun 13, 2024

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In 509 BC, the last king of Rome - Tarquinius Superbus - was expelled from the city, and the Republic was born. But what do we actually know about the early years of the Republic? Not much, and what we do know is at odds with the much later traditions on which we tend to rely.

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The Greatest Dynasty of Medieval France: Interview with Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker Jun 06, 2024

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It's been a while since Tides of History has gone to the Middle Ages, and a wonderful new book - House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France - provides us with the opportunity to return. Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker is one of the world's leading experts on medieval France, and she joins the show to talk about her new book, the Capetian dynasty, and how medieval politics actually worked.

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Sicily, Defeat, and the End of the Athenian Empire May 30, 2024

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The Peloponnesian War lasted for nearly 30 years, decades of ceaseless battles, sieges, and human misery that covered the whole of Greece. In the end, Athens' fate was decided not in Greece itself but in faraway Sicily, where the course of the war turned against Athens once and for all.

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Understanding the Alien World of Ancient Greece: Interview with Professor Greg Anderson May 23, 2024

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It's often said that the past is a foreign country, where our basic assumptions about how the world is supposed to work don't apply. But what does that mean for the practice of history? Professor Greg Anderson has fascinating ideas about how to actually understand the people of the past on their terms, with specific regard to ancient Greece.

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The Peloponnesian War, Part 1: Plague, Attrition, and a Decade of Bloodshed May 15, 2024

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When the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta finally broke out in 431 BC, it was small conflicts on the fringes of the Greek world that pulled the two states into conflict. Thousands upon thousands would pay the price for that over the first decade of the war.

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The Athenian Empire and the Coming of the Peloponnesian War May 09, 2024

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The Peloponnesian War, the epic 30-year conflict between Athens and Sparta for control of Classical Greece, was a long time in coming. In fact, its roots went back to the Persian Wars, when Athens seized the opportunity to create an empire in the aftermath.

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