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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
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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
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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
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twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and ... 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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of ... 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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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