Books Describing Historical Paths

1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World

Laurentino Gomes

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6,000 Years of Housing

Norbert Schoenauer

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A Concise History of Serbia

Dejan Djokic

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A History of the Byzantine State and Society

Warren Treadgold

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A History of the English People

Paul Johnson

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A History of Venice

John Julius Norwich

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A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

Mark Forsyth

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About The Size Of It: The Common Sense Approach To Measuring Things

Warwick Cairns

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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

Eric H. Cline

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Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

Philip Mansel

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An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching

George O'Brien

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Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant

Pierre Zalloua

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Ancient Glass: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Julian Henderson

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Annals of Imperial Rome

Tacitus

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Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516–1831

Constantin A. Panchenko & Samuel Noble

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Ardor

Roberto Calasso

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Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates

David Wootton

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Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages

Mark Gregory Pegg

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Berlin

David Clay Large

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Butter: A Rich History

Elaine Khosrova

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Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

Christopher Knowlton

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Christianity and the Qur'an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia

Gabriel Said Reynolds

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Chronicles

Jean Froissart

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Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles

Andrew Ziminski

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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700

Carlo M. Cipolla

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Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire

Edwin Mullins

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Coal: A Human History

Barbara Freese

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Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

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Critical Path

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the world

Tom Holland

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Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War

Robert K Massie

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Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

Iain Gately

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Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China

Jin Xu

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

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Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

Daniel Lieberman

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Fez: City of Islam

Titus Burckhardt

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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Camilla Townsend

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Folklore of The Holy Land: Moslem, Christian and Jewish

J.E. Hanauer

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France: An Adventure History

Graham Robb

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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

James Hannam

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Going Back to Constantinople, Istanbul: A City of Absences

Alexandros Massavetas

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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers

Geoffrey Horrocks

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Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past

Johann Chapoutot

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Guilt and Sin in Traditional China

Wolfram Eberhard

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Histories

Polybius

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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Johan Huizinga

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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Stewart Brand

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

Arthur Herman

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How the World Made the West A 4,000 Year History

Josephine Quinn

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In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present

Michael R. J. Bonner

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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

Tom Holland

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India: A History

John Keay

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India: A Portrait

Patrick French

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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Steven Strogatz

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Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

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Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

Larry Siedentop

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Iran

Ali M. Ansari

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Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan

Azby Brown

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Just Price in the Markets: A History

Charles R. Geisst

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Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions

Don Bates

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Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music

Christopher C. King

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Livy: The Early History of Rome

Titus Livy

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Marriage and Love in England: 1300-1840

Alan MacFarlane

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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Ed Conway

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Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals

Guenter B. Risse

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Modern Times, Modern Places

Peter Conrad

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Mohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine

Tawfiq Canaan

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Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World

Paolo Zannoni

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Money: A Story of Humanity

David McWilliams

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New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq

Orit Bashkin

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Out of Our Minds

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine

Robin Lane Fox

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Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure

Paul Veyne

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Paper: Paging Through History

Mark Kurlansky

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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

Noga Arikha

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age

Tom Holland

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Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Eugen Weber

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Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon

Robert Fisk

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Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

John Ma

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Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe

Suzanne L. Marchand

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Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

Jonathan I. Israel

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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Bruno Latour

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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects

Dmitry Orlov

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Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

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Scholars of Byzantium

Nigel Guy Wilson

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Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present

Murray Pittock

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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

T.E. Lawrence

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Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History

John Julius Norwich

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Siena, City of the Virgin

Titus Burckhardt

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Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle

Smbat Sparapet

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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

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Stones of Venice

John Ruskin

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Storm's Edge: A New History of Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Peter Marshall

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Tamil: A Biography

David Shulman

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Tea: The Drink that Changed the World

Laura C. Martin

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Technics and Civilization

Lewis Mumford

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The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law

Edward S. Corwin

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The Alexiad

Anna Komnene

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The Alhambra

Robert Irwin

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The Ancient City

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

James C. Scott

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The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping

Roger J. P. Kain & Elizabeth Baigent

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The Caesars

Suetonius

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The Cat in Ancient Egypt

Jaromir Malek

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The Coming of the Third Reich

Richard J. Evans

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The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications

Paul Starr

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The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715

Paul Hazard

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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

Isaiah Berlin

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The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800

David A. Bell

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The Culture of Cities

Lewis Mumford

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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Eugene Rogan

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber & David Wengrow

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The Discovery of France

Graham Robb

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

Peter Frankopan

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The Economic Decline of Empires

Carlo M. Cipolla

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The Economic Laws of Scientific Research

Terence Kealey

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The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917

Mikhail Zygar

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The Ethnic Ancestry of the Orthodox Christians of Syria and Palestine

Pavlos Karolidis

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Ilan Pappe

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The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis

Carroll Quigley

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The Evolution of Technology

George Basalla

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The First Crusade: The Call from the East

Peter Frankopan

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The First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe

Olaf Pedersen

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The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination

Alain Corbin

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The Fountains of Rome

H. V. Morton

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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

James Howard Kunstler

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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

William Dalrymple

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The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability

Annette Kehnel

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The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

Francesca Orsini

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The Histories

Herodotus

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The History and Social Influence of the Potato

Redcliffe N. Salaman

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The History of Theophylact Simocatta

Theophylact Simocatta

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The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

John Gray

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The Jews in Sicily

Shlomo Simonsohn

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The Jews of Islam

Bernard Lewis

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The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit

Helena Attlee

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The Last Empire of Iran

Michael R. J. Bonner

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The Last Great War of Antiquity

James Howard-Johnston

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The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

Joseph Kaufman

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The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

Joel Mokyr

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The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

Abigail Tucker

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The Mafia Encyclopedia

Carl Sifakis

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The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025

Mark Whittow

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The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420

Hendrik Dey

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The Making of the Middle Sea

Cyprian Broodbank

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The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)

Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog

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The Mosaics of Jordan

Michele Piccirillo

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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

Ibn Khaldûn

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The Myth of the Holy Cow

D.N. Jha

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The Myths of Innovation

Scott Berkun

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The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul

Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman & Bruce Masters

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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea

Peter Kemp

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The Paris Law Courts: Sketches of Men and Manners

Gerald P. Moriarty

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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

Henry Petroski

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The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade

Maria Eugenia Aubet

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The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time

James Joseph Walsh

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The Problem of China

Bertrand Russell

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The Red Fort of Shahjahanabad

Anisha Shekhar Mukherji

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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Josiah Ober

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The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

Richard M. Eaton

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The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History

Douglass North

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The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles

Michael Wood

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The Russian Revolution

Richard Pipes

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The Samaritans: A Profile

Reinhard Pummer

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The Samaritans: And the Question of Jewish Identity

Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez

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The Scholar and the Gypsy

James Howard-Johnston & Nigel Ryan

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan

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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny

Victor David Hanson

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The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village Through Time

John Merriman

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The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition

Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri

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The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages

Helen Waddell

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The Way of Zen

Alan Watts

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The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000

W. F. Bynum

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The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800

Lawrence I. Conrad

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The World of Late Antiquity

Peter Brown

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The World of the Phoenicians

Sabatino Moscati

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This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

Ramachandra Guha

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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

Avi Shlaim

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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

Mark Pendergrast

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When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne

Hans-Lukas Kieser

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White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929

George Robb

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