ReadingList

Books that were useful to us. Opinions are the reader's.

• Hobsbawm and Ranger, "The Invention of Tradition". Read before writing about anything "ancient".
• Studs Terkel, "Working". The oral history model.
• Ronald Blythe, "Akenfield". One village, many voices.
• Sidney Mintz, "Sweetness and Power". Food as history.
• Alan Lomax's field recordings, any of them.