Hey guys, just want to start this discussion to see what your favorite area within history is.
Modern Korean history, particually the labor movement (as a whole) and post-independence and the Korean People's Republic.
(Early-)modern and contemporary history. Especially social history.
My interests are modern and contempory, focusing on the USSR, and Ireland, I also have a interest in the Napoleonic era as it shows the founding of the beurgeoise french state and the war over economic competion with these countries
1. American Golden Age of Piracy 1700-1730 2. American and French revolutions 3. American Civil War 4. American industrial revolution, railroad expansion, progressive era, etc. 1864-1920 5.Russian Revolution 6.Spanish Civil War 7. Europe 1905-1941 8.WWII 9.Yugoslavian revolution(1941-1945) the list goes on.............
History from below as well as the "big stuff". Also art and literary history. Didn't study history formally, but have come to realize what actually happened does matter. Reading E. P. Thompson, Sheila Rowbotham, Dave Roediger, and Mike Davis made history come alive for me. I have worked on a few small social history projects focussing on radical politics in Toronto. I have a couple of projects in mind that I have absolutely no idea when I'd ever get time for.
1) Russian Revolution 2) French Revolution 3) WWII 4) Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi, and Senkoku periods of Japan (the golden age of samurai) 5) Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China
Mainly the history of the Dutch workers movement.
1. Roman Empire 2. American Civil War 3. Russian Revolution 4. World War II 5. Spanish civil war 6. Vietnam War 7. Maoist China 8. U.S. labor history 9. Modern Middle East history 10. Spanish conquest of the Americas 11. Modern Latin America 12. The Crusades
WW2, Medieval times, the Colonial era, Cold war era.
1) marxist analysis of pre-hispanic latin american history (incas, mayas, aztecs) -specifically the alleged ''andean mode of production'' theory 2) marxist analysis of byzantine history (with emphasis on perspectives associated with the ''asiatic mode of production'' theory) 3) the radical West European reformation (diggers, muntzerites, anabaptist radicals, adamites, etc..) 4) Soviet Foreign and military policy history (specially in the post-detente / pre-perestroika 1976-1984 period; after the communist victory in Vietnam, but before the advent of the CIA/Wall Street backed Gorvachev hijacking of the soviet state) 5) History in the making in Bolivarian Venezuela and Plurinational Bolivia.
I'm doing my PhD on diasporic history. This has lead me to an interest in: - immigration history - oral history - Marxian historiography, especially Marxian conceptions of nationalism - 19th and 20th century Australian and British social and cultural history I'm teaching units in international studies, and this has lead to an interest in: - globalisation - nations and nationalism - urban studies and urban history, especially multicultural and polyethnic cities. - cultural geography - technology and social progress - culture as a consumable product - the postindustrial Western world On the side, I also dabble in: - postmodern historiography (i.e. Hayden White and Keith Jenkins) - millenarianism and linear history - the history of ideas, especially the history of the Continental/Analytical philosophy divide.
Latin American History primarily Marxist revolutions, C.I.A interventions, and Operation Condor.
Roman Empire French Revolution Russian revolution Classical Greece
Ancient History (Pre-roman europe, middle east, etc) Chinese history Central Europe History Native CENTRAL/SOUTH American History Random weird awesome civilizations. That's pretty much it.