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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
by William J. Bernstein
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William J. Bernstein's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends... (read more)

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Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Second Edition
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Second Edition
by Thomas R. Martin
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In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and... (read more)

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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
by Geoffrey Parker
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Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread.  A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian... (read more)

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July 1914: Countdown to War
July 1914: Countdown to War
by Sean Mcmeekin
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When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, there was no indication that world war would be the result. Even Ferdinands own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the... (read more)

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The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
by David Igler
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The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global... (read more)

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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Verso World History)
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (Verso World History)
by Perry Anderson
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Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson... (read more)

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The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
by Anthony Pagden
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.   Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason... (read more)

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The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences
by David Cannadine
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From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we look at the past: not merely as the story of incessant conflict between groups but also of human solidarity throughout the ages. Investigating the six most... (read more)

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Revealing Antiquity #19: Spartacus
Revealing Antiquity #19: Spartacus
by Aldo Schiavone
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Spartacus (109?-71 bce), the slave who rebelled against Rome, has been a source of endless fascination, the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. Hard facts about the man have always yielded to romanticized tales and... (read more)

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The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization
The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization
by James Lacey
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“A compelling and provocative read . . . With a soldier’s eye, Jim Lacey re-creates the battle of Marathon in all its brutal simplicity.”—Barry Strauss, author of Masters of Command   Marathon—one of history’s... (read more)

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The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715
The Crisis of the European Mind, 1680-1715
by Paul Hazard
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Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved  intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter... (read more)

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A History of the Pacific Islands (Palgrave Essential Histories)
A History of the Pacific Islands (Palgrave Essential Histories)
by Steven Roger Fischer
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This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our... (read more)

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Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch: Skull-Crushing True Stories of the Most Hardcore Duels, Showdowns, Fistfights, Last Stands, Suicide Charges, and Military Engagements of All Time
Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch: Skull-Crushing True Stories of the Most Hardcore Duels, Showdowns, Fistfights, Last Stands, Suicide Charges, and Military Engagements of All Time
by Ben Thompson
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Unstoppable true stories of the most hardcore showdowns, last stands, and military engagements of all time! When only one can live, it's an Ultimate Deathmatch! This ain't no table tennis. You're not here to skip rope with your niece. You... (read more)

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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
by Vijay Prashad
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In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the '70s, the... (read more)

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Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A History of the World in Three Castes
Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A History of the World in Three Castes
by David Priestland
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A bold new interpretation of modern history as a continual struggle among three prevailing power groups: merchant, soldier, and sage Noted Oxford historian David Priestland argues history is, at base, a conflict among three occupational groups, or... (read more)

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They Got It Wrong: History: All the Facts That Turned Out to Be Myths
They Got It Wrong: History: All the Facts That Turned Out to Be Myths
by Emma Marriott
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They Got It Wrong: History exposes historical fallacies around the globe from the Roman Empire to World War II. There are countless twisted, sanitized tales that have become entrenched in popular belief but are really now more than warped reflections of... (read more)

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Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn
Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn
by Bill Fawcett
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An engrossing and fact-filled compendium of timeless lessons we keep forgetting—over and over and over . . . It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And so we have. Time and again humankind has overcome... (read more)

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Hoax: Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds
Hoax: Hitler's Diaries, Lincoln's Assassins, and Other Famous Frauds
by Edward Steers, Jr.
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