Call for Professional Reading Lists

[Jimbo]

I have some syllabi for some classes I recently took, I will dig them up. I will also share what I have when I start my next block in a month.

[marct]

Here are a few that may be useful.

Lewis Coser, "The function of social conflict". Free Press, 1956
Summary Conclusions Amazon

Max Gluckman, "Custom and Conflict in Africa", Blackwell, 1956
Amazon (personally, I have always grabbed my copies for a couple of bucks at second hand stores).

Marc

[PhilR]

I posted this previously in the "What are you reading" thread. I just ran across this on the Australia Land Warfare Studies website: http://www.defence.gov.au/Army/lwsc/ (its under Study Papers)
Its a pretty good reading list. Many titles are familiar, but many are "out of the mainstream" for military reading lists (and I'm not just talking about Australia-specific titles). There's a healthy dose of fiction and I was intrigued by logic of its matching of book titles to ranks (the idea of mathing is common, but there are some interesting choices here). Also, there seems to be a logic to the list in that the books are presented in a manner to suggest that some should be read close together--to gain differing perspectives on a subject.
The intro article on reading military history, originally published in 1965, is also well worth the time.