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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 45,089 ratings
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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4.23 avg rating — 29,028 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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4.02 avg rating — 27,042 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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4.03 avg rating — 32,910 ratings
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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3.97 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.87 avg rating — 7,825 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,102 ratings
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
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3.81 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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4.41 avg rating — 34,722 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.16 avg rating — 23,307 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
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3.85 avg rating — 14,608 ratings
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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4.01 avg rating — 15,571 ratings
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Life in a Medieval City
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3.84 avg rating — 3,951 ratings
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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4.16 avg rating — 12,223 ratings
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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3.88 avg rating — 11,001 ratings
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Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire
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4.29 avg rating — 3,285 ratings
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
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4.26 avg rating — 19,085 ratings
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
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4.03 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC
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4.08 avg rating — 1,563 ratings
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Iceman: Uncovering the Life and Times of a Prehistoric Man Found in an Alpine Glacier
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3.73 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Horizon Book of the Middle Ages
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3.92 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
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3.92 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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3.89 avg rating — 46,829 ratings
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John Adams
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4.09 avg rating — 382,061 ratings
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
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4.23 avg rating — 69,155 ratings
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Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London
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3.76 avg rating — 780 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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3.87 avg rating — 5,898 ratings
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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4.12 avg rating — 9,869 ratings
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
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4.14 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.89 avg rating — 952 ratings
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The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox: Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan, and Their Brothers
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4.13 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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4.28 avg rating — 203,361 ratings
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Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
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3.79 avg rating — 3,377 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
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4.13 avg rating — 26,187 ratings
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The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People
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4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Russia Under the Old Regime
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4.07 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Dr Johnson's London
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4.04 avg rating — 796 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
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3.99 avg rating — 14,255 ratings
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The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War
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4.37 avg rating — 475 ratings
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A History of Pagan Europe
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3.73 avg rating — 697 ratings
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A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
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3.92 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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4.11 avg rating — 19,258 ratings
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
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3.77 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,477 ratings
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The Year of Decision 1846
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4.13 avg rating — 439 ratings
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations
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4.07 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Pompeii : The Living City
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3.92 avg rating — 341 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
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4.25 avg rating — 16,334 ratings
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World
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3.90 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Mornings on Horseback
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4.10 avg rating — 35,916 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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4.03 avg rating — 3,108 ratings
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Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
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3.69 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Social Conquest of Earth
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4.02 avg rating — 4,348 ratings
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Wonders of the Ancient World: Antiquity's Greatest Feats of Design and Engineering
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4.16 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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4.19 avg rating — 2,740 ratings
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Crown of Blood
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4.01 avg rating — 1,626 ratings
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Ancient Worlds
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3.96 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The Wonder That Was India
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4.11 avg rating — 1,861 ratings
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
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4.16 avg rating — 2,676 ratings
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Vanished Civilizations: The Hidden Secrets of Lost Cities and Forgotten Peoples
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4.19 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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4.38 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 647 ratings
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The Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age : A Journey Back to Our Cultural Origins
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3.79 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Pagan Britain
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4.18 avg rating — 507 ratings
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Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages
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4.23 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The World of Odysseus
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3.90 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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The Singing Neanderthals
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3.89 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 56,786 ratings
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Hounds and Hunting in Ancient Greece
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
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3.82 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
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The Spartans: The World of the Warrior - Heroes of Ancient Greece, From Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
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3.77 avg rating — 3,172 ratings
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In Search of the Immortals: Mummies, Death and the Afterlife
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3.74 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
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4.25 avg rating — 25,156 ratings
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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
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3.89 avg rating — 600 ratings
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The Complete Pompeii (The Complete Series)
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4.21 avg rating — 374 ratings
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Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies
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3.89 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Greeks and the Irrational
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4.20 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
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The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West
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4.08 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs. Disraeli
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3.92 avg rating — 493 ratings
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1215 : The Year of Magna Carta
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3.81 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
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Knight In Medieval England 1000-1400
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3.80 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Statues that Walked: Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
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3.85 avg rating — 685 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
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4.17 avg rating — 8,876 ratings
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The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
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4.17 avg rating — 402 ratings
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The Age of the Vikings
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3.76 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
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The Triumph of the Sea Gods: The War against the Goddess Hidden in Homer's Tales
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4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Vikings
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3.94 avg rating — 299 ratings
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like At the Turn of the First Millennium
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3.87 avg rating — 5,898 ratings
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The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China
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4.09 avg rating — 219 ratings
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
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3.59 avg rating — 832 ratings
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The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars
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3.59 avg rating — 8,843 ratings
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Ring Out Bow Bells
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4.16 avg rating — 79 ratings
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China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
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3.81 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire
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3.51 avg rating — 572 ratings
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Miracle At Philadelphia
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4.06 avg rating — 2,047 ratings
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China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
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3.93 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe
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3.97 avg rating — 1,023 ratings
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1066: The Year of The Conquest
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4.07 avg rating — 4,649 ratings
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