Books Describing Historical Paths

Books about Historical Paths take a certain culture or object and study its evolution through time.

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric H. Cline
Amazon
6,000 Years of Housing
Norbert Schoenauer
Amazon
A Concise History of Serbia
Dejan Djokic
Amazon
A History of the Byzantine State and Society
Warren Treadgold
Amazon
A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present
Mark Forsyth
Amazon
About The Size Of It: The Common Sense Approach To Measuring Things
Warwick Cairns
Amazon
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City
Philip Mansel
Amazon
Ancient Glass: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Julian Henderson
Amazon
Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Amazon
Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates
David Wootton
Amazon
Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages
Mark Gregory Pegg
Amazon
Berlin
David Clay Large
Amazon
Butter: A Rich History
Elaine Khosrova
Amazon
Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700
Carlo M. Cipolla
Amazon
Coal: A Human History
Barbara Freese
Amazon
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay
Amazon
Critical Path
R. Buckminster Fuller
Amazon
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Ben Goldfarb
Amazon
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the world
Tom Holland
Amazon
Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol
Iain Gately
Amazon
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Daniel Lieberman
Amazon
Fez: City of Islam
Titus Burckhardt
Amazon
France: An Adventure History
Graham Robb
Amazon
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
James Hannam
Amazon
Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers
Geoffrey Horrocks
Amazon
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Johan Huizinga
Amazon
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand
Amazon
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
Amazon
In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present
Michael R. J. Bonner
Amazon
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In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
Tom Holland
Amazon
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
Steven Strogatz
Amazon
Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
Amazon
Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Amazon
Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions
Don Bates
Amazon
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
Christopher C. King
Amazon
Livy: The Early History of Rome
Titus Livy
Amazon
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway
Amazon
Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals
Guenter B. Risse
Amazon
Modern Times, Modern Places
Peter Conrad
Amazon
Out of Our Minds
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Amazon
Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine
Robin Lane Fox
Amazon
Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure
Paul Veyne
Amazon
Paper: Paging Through History
Mark Kurlansky
Amazon
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours
Noga Arikha
Amazon
Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age
Tom Holland
Amazon
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750
Jonathan I. Israel
Amazon
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
Amazon
Scholars of Byzantium
Nigel Guy Wilson
Amazon
Siena, City of the Virgin
Titus Burckhardt
Amazon
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
Laura C. Martin
Amazon
The Alexiad
Anna Komnene
Amazon
The Caesars
Suetonius
Amazon
The Cat in Ancient Egypt
Jaromir Malek
Amazon
The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
Amazon
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
Paul Starr
Amazon
The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715
Paul Hazard
Amazon
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
Isaiah Berlin
Amazon
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
David A. Bell
Amazon
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber & David Wengrow
Amazon
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The Discovery of France
Graham Robb
Amazon
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Peter Frankopan
Amazon
The Economic Decline of Empires
Carlo M. Cipolla
Amazon
The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917
Mikhail Zygar
Amazon
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappe
Amazon
The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis
Carroll Quigley
Amazon
The Evolution of Technology
George Basalla
Amazon
The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Peter Frankopan
Amazon
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
Alain Corbin
Amazon
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler
Amazon
The Histories
Herodotus
Amazon
The Jews in Sicily
Shlomo Simonsohn
Amazon
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit
Helena Attlee
Amazon
The Last Empire of Iran
Michael R. J. Bonner
Amazon
The Last Great War of Antiquity
James Howard-Johnston
Amazon
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
Joseph Kaufman
Amazon
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
Joel Mokyr
Amazon
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World
Abigail Tucker
Amazon
The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420
Hendrik Dey
Amazon
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog
Amazon
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
Ibn Khaldûn
Amazon
The Myths of Innovation
Scott Berkun
Amazon
The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul
Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman & Bruce Masters
Amazon
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Peter Kemp
Amazon
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Henry Petroski
Amazon
The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade
Maria Eugenia Aubet
Amazon
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
Amazon
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Josiah Ober
Amazon
The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
Douglass North
Amazon
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
Amazon
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Amazon
The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives
Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Amazon
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
Avi Shlaim
Amazon
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Mark Pendergrast
Amazon
When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne
Hans-Lukas Kieser
Amazon

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Books Describing Historical Paths

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

6,000 Years of Housing

A Concise History of Serbia

A History of the Byzantine State and Society

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

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

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

Ancient Glass: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Annals of Imperial Rome

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates

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

Berlin

Butter: A Rich History

Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700

Coal: A Human History

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Critical Path

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

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the world

Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

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

Fez: City of Islam

France: An Adventure History

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

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers

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

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

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

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

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Jerusalem: The Biography

Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions

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

Livy: The Early History of Rome

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals

Modern Times, Modern Places

Out of Our Minds

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

Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure

Paper: Paging Through History

Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age

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

Salt: A World History

Scholars of Byzantium

Siena, City of the Virgin

Tea: The Drink that Changed the World

The Alexiad

The Caesars

The Cat in Ancient Egypt

The Coming of the Third Reich

The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications

The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715

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

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

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

The Discovery of France

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

The Economic Decline of Empires

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

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis

The Evolution of Technology

The First Crusade: The Call from the East

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

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

The Histories

The Jews in Sicily

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

The Last Empire of Iran

The Last Great War of Antiquity

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

The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

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

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

The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)