Adam's Updates

Adam is on page 50 of 329 of 1916

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:36:27 -0700

Adam is on page 50 of 329 of 1916.

Adam is currently reading '1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence: From the Easter Rising to the Present'

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:36:16 -0700

Adam is currently reading 1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence: From the Easter Rising to the Present by Tim Pat Coogan

Adam wants to read 'More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI'

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:35:13 -0700

Adam wants to read More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner

Adam is currently reading 'The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy'

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:34:53 -0700

Adam is currently reading The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan

Adam started reading 'More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI'

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:34:41 -0700

Adam started reading More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner

Adam is currently reading 'Brezhnev Reconsidered'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:55:16 -0700

Adam is currently reading Brezhnev Reconsidered by M.A. Sandle

Adam wants to read 'Postwar Japan as History'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:51:52 -0700

Adam wants to read Postwar Japan as History by Andrew Gordon

Adam wants to read 'Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Capitalism in Colonial Australia'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:51:47 -0700

Adam wants to read Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Capitalism in Colonial Australia by Philip D. McMichael

Adam added 'Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:44:33 -0700

Adam gave 4 stars to Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present (Hardcover) by Adeeb Khalid
A fantastic overview of differing Soviet and Chinese approaches to Central Asian development under their respective socialist projects (the book also includes pre- and post-20th Century narratives). The author's politics can be a little grating at times, but the book gives great credit to, especially Soviet, development success in the region. The descriptions of women's liberation in the Central Asian Soviet Republics are wonderful, as is the small section on the All-Union reconstruction efforts in Tashkent following the 1966 earthquake (Tashkent was the fourth largest city in the USSR!). I couldn't help but mourn what has been lost.

Like a number of recent scholarly works on the Maoist period, the details of the Chinese approach to Sino-Soviet relations and the undercurrent of Chinese (Han) nationalism in Chinese revolutionary political, developmental and cultural policy is very enlightening. The last section, on the post-Soviet experience in the former Central Asian socialist republics, is immensely depressing; Deng and post-Deng Xinjiang economic, cultural and political development a small (relative) glimmer of positivity in an otherwise very sad scene.

Adam wants to read 'A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962'

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:58:44 -0700

Adam wants to read A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne