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
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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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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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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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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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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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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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 Histories
Herodotus
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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 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 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 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 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 Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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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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Books Describing Historical Paths

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

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

6,000 Years of Housing

A Concise History of Serbia

A History of the Byzantine State and Society

A History of the English People

A History of Venice

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

After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

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

Ancestors: Identity and DNA in the Levant

Ancient Glass: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Annals of Imperial Rome

Ardor

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates

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

Berlin

Butter: A Rich History

Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West

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

City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700

Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire

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

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

Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China

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

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

Fez: City of Islam

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

France: An Adventure History

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

Going Back to Constantinople, Istanbul: A City of Absences

Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers

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

Guilt and Sin in Traditional China

Histories

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

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

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

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

India: A History

India: A Portrait

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

Iran

Just Price in the Markets: A History

Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions

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

Livy: The Early History of Rome

Marriage and Love in England: 1300-1840

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals

Modern Times, Modern Places

Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World

Money: A Story of Humanity

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

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

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

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe

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

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

Salt: A World History

Scholars of Byzantium

Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present