Chuck Grimes wrote:
> Have any recommendations on books? (other than Gibbon, of course...)
> I just finished a whole bunch of books about WW1 and I'm looking for a
> new era... ;-)
There is a magnificent bibliography in Ellen Wood's *Peasant-Citizen and Slave*, and some of those have fine bibliographies in turn. Wood's book is of extraordinary interest. And though he got almost everything wrong, George Thompson's books (beginning with Aeschylus & Athens) are still fascinating. Finally, one of the best books for getting a grip on the enormous change from hierarchical (tributary) societies to capitalism is Thomas Laqueur, *Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud*.
Carrol