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The 100 Best History Books of All Time


The 100 Best History Books of All Time list contains a mixture of the greatest classical, early modern and contempary works. Ranging from Thucydides to Livy, Gibbon to Macaulay, and Toynbee to E. P. Thompson, nearly all the greats are covered and there's definitely something here for everyone.

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1. A Study of History
By Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two volumes, of this ... More

2. The Making of the English Working Class


By E. P. Thompson
"Thompson's book has been called controversial, but perhaps only because so many have forgotten how explosive England was during the Regency and the early reign of Victoria. Without any reservation, The Making of the English Working Class is the most important study of those days since the classic ... More

3. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II


By Fernand Braudel
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations ... More

4. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (4 Volume Series)

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By Eric Hobsbawm
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume history of the modern world, along with The Age of Capitalism, The ... More

5. The Radicalism of the American Revolution


By Gordon S. Wood
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its ... More

6. The Rise of the West


By William H. McNeill
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted ... More

7. The Sources of Social Power


By Michael Mann
Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military, and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines inter-relations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean ... More

8. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


By Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a book of history written by the English historian Edward Gibbon, which traces the trajectory of the Roman Empire and Western civilization as a whole from the late first century AD to the fall of the ... More

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9. What Is History?
By E. H. Carr
The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at the University of Cambridge January - March 1961. New York Times Book Review: "... a work of rare distinction which nobody can afford to miss." More

10. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750


By Peter Brown
This remarkable study in social and cultural change explains how and why the Late Antique world, between c. 150 and c. 750 A.D., came to differ from "Classical civilization."These centuries, as the author demonstrates, were the era in which the most deeply rooted of ancient institutions disappeared for ... More

11. The Contours of American History


By William Appleman Williams
William Appleman Williams was one of Americas greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with expansion abroad containing class and ... More

12. The Origins of The Second World War


By A.J.P. Taylor
A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling "The Origins of the Second World War" overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. ... More

13. The Peloponnesian War


By Thucydides
"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for

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twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ... More

14. A People's History of the United States


By Howard Zinn
Its a wonderful, splendid booka book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants[It] should be required reading. Eric Foner, New York Times ... More

15. The Black Jacobins


By C.L.R. James
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World.This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from ... More

16. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
By Karl Polanyi
In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market ... More

17. Liberty before Liberalism


By Quentin Skinner
This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and ... More

18. Gender and the Politics of History


By Joan Scott

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Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, ... More

19. Search for Modern China


By Jonathan Spence
[Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson] *A 1990 New York Times Book Review Book of the Year The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China's history remains unknown, or ... More

20. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era


By James M. McPherson
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of ... More

21. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By Kenneth Pomeranz
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of ... More

22. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West


By William Cronon
Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most ... More

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23. The Strange Death of Liberal England: 1910-1914


By George Dangerfield
This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield weaves together the three wild strands of the Irish Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the Suffragette Movement and the Labour Movement to produce a vital picture of the ... More

24. Religion and the Decline of Magic


By Keith Thomas
Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the ... More

25. Greece
By Michael Rostovtzeff
Greece is a companion volume to the paperback edition of Rome, and with it comprises the greater part of Rostovzeff's major work, A History of the Ancient World. From the appearance of prehistoric Aegean settlements, through the rise of the city states, to the diffusion of Hellenistic culture ... More

26. Rome
By Michael Rostovtzeff
First published in 1927 this monumental book has long been out of print. Brilliantly written, it stands on its own merits and has not been outdated by new discoveries or research. Rostovtzeff's narrative begins in the fourth century B.C. and concludes with `the social and political catastrophe of ... More

27. The Guns of August


By Barbara Tuchman
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prizewinning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the

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century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman ... More

28. Hidden From History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It
By Sheila Rowbotham
In this study of women from the Puritan revolution to the 1930s, the author shows how class and sex, work and family, personal life and social pressures have shaped and hindered women's struggles for equality. More

29. The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714


By Christopher Hill
There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history ... More

30. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945


By Tony Judt
Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the ... More

31. A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War
By Melvyn Leffler
This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning new interpretation of U.S. national security policy during the formative stages of the Soviet-American rivalry. Illustrated with 15 halftones and 10 maps. More

32. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

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By Ibn Khaldun
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and ... More

33. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783
By John Brewer
This powerful interpretation of English history provides a completely new framework for understanding how Britain emerged in the eighteenth century as a major international power. Brewers brilliant analysis makes clear that the drastic increase in Britain's military involvement (and success) in Europe and the expansion ... More

34. Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990 - 1992


By Charles Tilly
In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European ... More

35. The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it
By Richard Hofstadter
The American Political Tradition is a 1948 book by Richard Hofstadter, an account on the ideology of previous U.S. presidents and other political figures. The full title is The American Political Tradition and the ... More

36. A History of the Arab Peoples


By Albert Hourani
Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Houranis masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became both a bestseller and an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing twelve centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminated the people and events that have fundamentally ... More

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37. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England


By J. M. Neeson
This is a paperback edition of one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history published in the past generation. Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had ... More

38. Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East


By Geoffrey Wawro
An unprecedented history of our involvement in the Middle East that traces our current quandaries there-in Iraq, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, and elsewhere-back to their roots almost a century ago. Geoffrey Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a fundamentally new way-by encompassing the last ... More

39. The Rise of Rome


By Livy
"The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods"Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state ... More

40. The Peloponnesian War


By Donald Kagan
For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the worlds most respected classical, political, and military historians, here ... More

41. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy


By Jacob Burckhardt
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame

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radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of ... More

42. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World


By David E. Stannard
For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time ... More

43. The Great Chain of Being


By Arthur O. Lovejoy
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur ... More

44. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900


By Alfred W. Crosby
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby, ... More

45. The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad 1750 to the Present
By Walter LaFeber
In this leading text, Walter LaFeber offers a comprehensive history of American foreign relations from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. His narrative account features several major themes: the connections between U.S. foreign policy and domestic politics; the impact of American economic development on foreign policy interests; popular ... More

46. The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire

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By John Newsinger
The Blood Never Dried challenges the rising chorus of claims that the British Empire was a kinder, gentler force in the world of imperialism. John Newsinger sets out to uncover this neglected history of repression and resistance. To the boast that ""the sun never set on the British ... More

47. Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis


By Raymond Garthoff
The Soviet response to the first edition of Reflections has been a prime example of the new openness under glasnost in discussing previously taboo subjects. Using new revelations-- such as the fact that Moscow had twice as many troops in Cuba as the Kennedy administration believed-from key ... More

48. The Landscape of History


By John Lewis Gaddis
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape ... More

49. Imagined Communities


By Benedict Anderson
Imagined Communities, Benedict Andersons brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised ... More

50. The Destruction of the European Jews


By Raul Hilberg
A three-volume study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanized further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies. This revised and expanded edition of Hilberg's classic work extends the scope ... More

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51. The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records


By Sima Qian
"The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted."The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in ... More

52. Imperial China 900-1800


By F. W. Mote
This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No ... More

53. The Historian's Craft


By Marc Bloch
This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school. More

54. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa


By Walter Rodney
Before a bomb ended his life in the summer of 1980, Walter Rodney had created a powerful legacy. This pivotal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, had already brought a new perspective to the question of underdevelopment in Africa. His Marxist analysis went far beyond the heretofore accepted approach ... More

55. African Perspectives on Colonialism


By Albert Adu Boahen
This history deals with the twenty-year period between 1880 and 1900, when virtually all of Africa was seized and occupied by the Imperial Powers

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of Europe. Eurocentric points of view have dominated the study of this era, but in this book, one of Africas leading historians reinterprets the ... More

56. A History of Russia


By Nicholas Riasanovsky; Mark Steinberg
Now completely revised in this eighth edition, A History of Russia covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. Keeping with the hallmark of the text, Riasanovsky and Steinberg examine all aspects of Russia's history-political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural--with ... More

57. The Discovery of India


By Jawaharlal Nehru
In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of ... More

58. Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side


By Leonard W. Levy
In the most controversial analysis ever written of the apostle of American liberty, the distinguished constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy examines Jeffersons record on civil liberties and finds it strikingly wanting. Clearing away the saintliness that surrounds the hero, Mr. Levy tries to understand why the unfamiliar Jefferson ... More

59. The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization


By Bryan Ward-Perkins
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?In The Fall of Rome, eminent ... More

60. The City in History

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By Lewis Mumford
The citys development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations. More

61. The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain


By Pierre Broue; Emile Temime
The tragic defeat of the Spanish Civil War has long fascinated those who continue to struggle for social justice. Pierre Brou and mile Tmines long-out-of-print history details the internal political dynamics that led the popular front to hold back radical measures that would have galvanized the working class ... More

62. The Great French Revolution 1789-1793


By Peter Kropotkin
The Great French Revolution is Peter Kropotkin's classic account of the history of the upheavels from 1789 to 1793. Although Kropotkin is best known as the chief theorist for the political theory of anarchism, he was also a highly educated man (a member of the Russian nobility), a ... More

63. The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350-1750
By James D. Tracy
The Political Economy of Merchant Empires focuses on why European concerns eventually achieved dominance in global trade in the period between 1450 and 1750, at the expense, especially in Asia, of well-organized and well-financed rivals. The volume is a companion to The Rise of Merchant Empires (1990), ... More

64. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon


By Michael S. Sherry
This prizewinning book is the first in-depth history of American strategic bombing. Michael S. Sherry explores the growing appeal of air power in America before World War II, the ideas, techniques, personalities, and organizations that guided air attacks during the war, and the devastating effects of American ... More

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65. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
By Frances Stonor Saunders
In addition to being short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award upon publication in 2000, Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War was met with the kind of attention reserved for books that directly hit a cultural nerve. Impassioned reviews and features in major publications such as the ... More

66. The Korean War: A History


By Bruce Cumings
A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and ... More

67. The Idea of History


By R. G. Collingwood
The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood. It was originally published posthumously in 1946, having been mainly reconstructed from Collingwood's manuscripts, many of which are now lost. This important work examines how the idea of history has ... More

68. A Short History of Byzantium


By John Julius Norwich
"Norwich is always on the lookout for the small but revealing details. . . . All of this he recounts in a style that consistently entertains." --The New York Times Book Review In this magisterial adaptation of his epic threevolume history of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich chronicles the ... More

69. Age of the Democratic Revolution


By R. R. Palmer
From Preface: "There have been a great many works on the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the beginnings of the parliamentary

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reform movement in Great Britain, and on Irish affairs, as also, though less known in the English-speaking world, on the several countries of continental Europe during this ... More

70. The Crowd in History


By George Rude
Who took part in the widespread disturbances that periodically shook 18th-century London? What really motivated the food rioters who helped to spark off the French Revolution? How did the movement of agricultural laborers destroying new machinery spread from one village to another in the English countryside? How did ... More

71. History of the Russian Revolution


By Leon Trotsky
The classic account of the social, economic, and political dynamics of the first socialist revolution as told by one of its central leaders. Trotsky describes how, under Lenin s leadership, the Bolshevik Party led the working class, peasantry, and oppressed nationalities to overturn the monarchist regime of the ... More

72. British Counterinsurgency: From Palestine to Northern Ireland


By John Newsinger
British Counterinsurgency examines the insurgencies that have confronted the British State since the end of the Second World War, and at the methods used to fight them. It looks at the guerrilla campaigns in Palestine, Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, South Yemen, Oman, and most recently in Northern Ireland, and ... More

73. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa


By James M. Burns; Robert O. Collins
In a trawl through the entire sweep of sub-Saharan history, the authors have written an accessible introduction for students and general readers. The opening chapter on geography and climate frames the discussion, demonstrating how the environment has shaped the societies and cultures of those living in the region. ... More

74. The Conquest of the Incas

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By John Hemming
Distinguished by an extraordinary empathy, a feeling of ones way into the minds of the sixteenth-century Spaniards and Indians . . . Provocative. New York Times An extraordinary book. Combining rigorous historical research and profound analysis with stylistic elegance, this work allows the reader ... More

75. Hiroshima
By John Hersey
"At, exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in ... More

76. American Slavery: 1619-1877


By Peter Kolchin
The single best short survey in America, now updated.Includes a New Preface and AfterwardIn terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised ... More

77. The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel
By Paul Krause
Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the broad context of Americas Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs ... More

78. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution


By John Womack
Zapata and the Mexican RevolutionJohn Womack, Jr.". . . It is certainly the definitive study of Emiliano Zapata, and it places him in his proper context."Frank Jellinek, The New York Times Book Review"A feat of historical writing . . . Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely ... More

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79. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus


By Charles C. Mann
In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were ... More

80. The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943-1945
By Gabriel Kolko
A major work of narrative history that brings together diplomatic, economic, and military decisions from the last years of the Second World War to show how the stage was set for many of the postwar conflicts. More

81. Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America
By Edmund S. Morgan
"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naivet concerning the governmental process." Michael Kamman, Washington PostThis book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and ... More

82. The Great War and Modern Memory


By Paul Fussell
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study ... More

83. The Second World War


By A.J.P. Taylor
Provides an overview of World War II from the invasion of Poland to V-J day, and covers major campaigns and battles. More

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84. The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company
By John Keay
During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it ... More

85. Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution


By Eric Hobsbawm
An updated edition of the classic study of the Industrial Revolution by "one of the few genuinely great historians of our century" (The New Republic). Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original ... More

86. Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300


By Susan Reynolds
This wide-ranging and perceptive book focuses on the collective values and activities of lay society over several centuries, from trade guilds and manor courts to the development of parliaments and the rule of feudal monarchs. It offers a new approach to the history of medieval Europe. The second ... More

87. Europe: Hierarchy and Revolt: 1320-1450


By George Holmes
This book provides a classic introduction to a key period in the history of Europe - the transition from medieval to Renaissance Europe.In this updated edition, Professor Holmes traces the main political events as well as describing broader changes in social structure and culture. He reveals the interactions ... More

88. Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade

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By Henri Pirenne
Henri Pirenne is best known for his provocative argument--known as the "Pirenne thesis" and familiar to all students of medieval Europe--that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the ... More

89. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine


By Ilan Pappe
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six decades, had ... More

90. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World


By Avi Shlaim
"Fascinating. . . . Shlaim presents compelling evidence for a revaluation of traditional Israeli history."New York Times Book ReviewAs it celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, the State of Israel could count many important successes, but its conflict with the Palestinians and the Arab world at large casts a long ... More

91. Last Reflections on a War


By Bernard B. Fall
8-page b/w photo section 6 x 9 "Last Reflections on a War stands as a fine representative sample of Fall's work as a whole; as such, it is nearly as personal as an autobiography. . . . That the collection includes an excellent outline of ... More

92. Killing Hope


By William Blum
Is the United States a force for democracy? From China in the 1940s to Guatemala today, William Blum presents a comprehensive study of American covert and overt interference, by one means or another, in the internal affairs of other countries. Each chapter of the book covers a year ... More

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93. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By Eduardo Galeano
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather ... More

94. The History of England


By Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848) is the full title of the five volume work by Lord Macaulay (1800 - 1859) more generally known as The History of England. It covers the period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James ... More

95. Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation


By Barry J. Kemp
Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this second edition of Barry J. Kemp's popular text presents a compelling reassessment of what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics. Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, ... More

96. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924


By Orlando Figes
It is history on an epic yet human scale. Vast in scope, exhaustive in original research, written with passion, narrative skill, and human sympathy, A People's Tragedy is a profound account of the Russian Revolution for a new generation. Many consider the Russian Revolution to be the most ... More

97. The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe
By T. H. Aston; Robert Brenner; C. H. E. Philpin

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Few historical issues have occasioned such discussion since at least the time of Marx as the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Western Europe. The Brenner Debate, which reprints from Past and Present various article in 1976, is a scholarly presentation of a variety of points of view, ... More

98. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
By Christopher Hill
Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic - the ideology of the propertied class - there threatened another, quite different, revolution. Its success 'might have established communal property, a far wider democracy in political and legal institutions, might ... More

99. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
By J. G. A. Pocock
The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts ... More

100. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
By John H. Elliott
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbuss arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us ... More

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