History Books From A Twitter Thread (35 books)

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1	War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 339 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama 4.19 avg rating — 10,420 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama 4.34 avg rating — 4,934 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 4.05 avg rating — 95,426 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay 4.16 avg rating — 360 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Imperial China, 900–1800 by Frederick W. Mote 4.43 avg rating — 201 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Venture of Islam, Vol 1: The Classical Age of Islam by Marshall G.S. Hodgson 4.24 avg rating — 540 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Venture of Islam, Vol 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G.S. Hodgson 4.19 avg rating — 192 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Venture of Islam, Vol 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times by Marshall G.S. Hodgson 4.12 avg rating — 148 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch 4.12 avg rating — 6,686 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Age of the Democratic Revolution, Vol 1: The Challenge by R.R. Palmer 4.02 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Age of the Democratic Revolution, Vol 2: The Struggle by R.R. Palmer 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress by Joel Mokyr 4.06 avg rating — 319 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger 4.26 avg rating — 9,448 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 by S.C.M. Paine 4.42 avg rating — 309 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes 3.75 avg rating — 1,929 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber 4.19 avg rating — 26,451 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson 3.93 avg rating — 9,904 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1) by John McPhee 4.18 avg rating — 4,151 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan 4.40 avg rating — 2,036 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 by Michael Mann 4.31 avg rating — 155 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Sources of Social Power: volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States 1760-1914 by Michael Mann 4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890-1945 by Michael Mann 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Sources of Social Power: Volume 4, Globalizations, 1945-2011 by Michael Mann 3.94 avg rating — 52 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Golden Bough: A History of Myth and Religion by Sir James Frazer 4.02 avg rating — 8,709 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age by Robert N. Bellah 3.97 avg rating — 450 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition by Merlin Donald 4.15 avg rating — 130 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Lessons of History by Will Durant 4.05 avg rating — 20,548 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill 4.12 avg rating — 593 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 by Alfred W. Crosby 3.98 avg rating — 1,865 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VII, Abridged Edition: Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880-1935 (Volume 7) by A. Adu Boahen (editor) 3.84 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. VIII: Africa since 1935 by Ali A. Mazrui (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6 by Arnold J. Toynbee 4.11 avg rating — 526 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Story of Civilization by Will Durant 4.43 avg rating — 1,809 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 4.39 avg rating — 316 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars