Patrick Wyman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Patrick Wyman is a history podcaster and author. Pod: Tides of History, currently covering the Iron Age. The Pursuit of Dadliness. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. pwymanusc at gmail.
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Camilla TownsendPatrick Wyman4) Camilla Townsend, "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs." Wonderful work in stripping away centuries of distortion to create a brand-new portrait of the Mexica and their world. https://t.co/voxh5gemPa
Paperback, 2021
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
Patrick WymanPatrick WymanTwo weeks until my book - "The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" - comes out. A thread of images that didn't make it into the book, but which I love. 1: Albrecht Durer, "The Willow Mill." Watercolor, 1498 Preorder: https://t.co/UwatfpCYWA https://t.co/xNsxHunHpm
Paperback, 2022
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
Richard WhitePatrick WymanWhite’s work is many things but at heart it’s an extended meditation on how the messy, painful realities of the United States have so poignantly fallen short of its ideals.
Paperback, 2019
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David GraeberPatrick Wyman5) David Graeber and David Wengrow, "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity." Sprawling, creative, incredibly ambitious new way of understanding humanity's past and maybe its future. https://t.co/6HF0AGHrPm
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Alexander MikaberidzePatrick Wyman7) Alexander Mikaberidze, "The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History." Excellent comprehensive overview of the Napoleonic Wars in global perspective, which gives a much richer and nuanced impression of the conflicts. https://t.co/a6ZBzG9VtX
Hardcover, 2020
$47.99$24.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyPatrick WymanOh man, Cormac McCarthy. "Blood Meridian" is maybe the best-written thing I've ever read, a truly affecting work that I still think about all the time. McCarthy saw the dark heart of America and laid it bare in ways very few other writers have ever done.
Paperback, 1992
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vikings
Neil PricePatrick Wyman2) Neil Price, "The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings." Really fantastic, multifaceted, creative way of looking at the Viking Age. https://t.co/HwLu48IcIe
Paperback, 2023
$44.99$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Neil PricePatrick Wyman2) Neil Price, "The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings." Really fantastic, multifaceted, creative way of looking at the Viking Age. https://t.co/HwLu48IcIe
Paperback, 2022
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
James C. ScottPatrick Wyman5) James C. Scott, "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia." Really thought-provoking read about how people in the region have organized their lives around avoiding state power. Probably goes too far but fascinating. https://t.co/814lptW1yW
Paperback, 2010
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (National Book Award Finalist)
Drew Gilpin FaustPatrick Wyman2) Drew Gillian Faust, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.” Interesting approach, wide range of evidence, well done. https://t.co/A8mAGhKYFJ
Paperback, 2009
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book