History Bookshelf!
These are the books that have been monumental for me during my history career so far. During my mandatory American History seminars I focused primarily on American Indians, while my primary focus is on the Modern Middle East. These books define me, in a way, and I’ve already been through them enough to wrinkle some spines.
Custer Died For Your Sins - Vine Deloria
1491 - Charles Mann
The Comanche Empire - Pekka Hämäläinen
Indians in Unexpected Places - Philip Deloria
Orientalism - Edward Said
The Well Protected Domains - Selim Deringil
Islam and the Secular State - Abdullahi An-Na'im
The Modern Middle East: A History - James Gelvin
Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
Imagined Communities - Benedict Anderson