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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
by Stephen Greenblatt
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History)
by Thomas Cahill
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methodology
by Martha C Howell
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Black Athena the Afroasiatic Roots Volume 1
by Martin Bernal
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
by Charles Emmerson
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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100 Diagrams That Changed the World: From the Earliest Cave Paintings to the Innovation of the iPod
by Scott Christianson
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Spectacle Entertainments of Early Imperial Rome
by Richard C Beacham
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900
by Andrew Roberts
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Silencing the Past
by Michel Ro Trouillot
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