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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
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3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
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Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change
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The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
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The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
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3.70 avg rating — 1,331 ratings
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The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Conflict in the Middle East
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4.04 avg rating — 279 ratings
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
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3.42 avg rating — 1,713 ratings
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From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane: The Reawakening of Mongol Asia
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The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War
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Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
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Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
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How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950
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They Were Here Before Us: Stories from the First Million Years
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The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
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3.73 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Post Office Women at War, 1939–45: Gender, Conflict and Public Service Employment
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Rising from the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
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The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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4.05 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
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3.61 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
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4.33 avg rating — 409 ratings
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The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
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4.41 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
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4.03 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Diplomacy Ends at Midnight: The Long Return of Hong Kong to China
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union
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4.49 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Oliver Cromwell: The brave, bad man of British history
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3.26 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth
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3.95 avg rating — 11,274 ratings
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Women in the Classical World: A History
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Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
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Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
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3.81 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great
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Plague Ship: The Untold Story of Captain Cook and His Legacy
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The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
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Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929
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Подолати минуле: глобальна історія України
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The Gathering Storm: The Countdown to the Second World War
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War, 1750–1918
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House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
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4.17 avg rating — 858 ratings
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The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
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4.01 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us
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A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany
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The Republic of China: 1912 to 1949
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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Heroines of the Tudor World
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The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons
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The Shadows of Socrates: The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind the Trial of Socrates
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The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
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Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland
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To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
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The Shortest History of Economics
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Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark
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Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire
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How the World Made the West
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Nepal: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present
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Women of Power: Formidable Queens of the Medieval World
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Homo Criminalis: How crime organises the world
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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The English Soul: Faith of a Nation
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Caesar Versus Pompey: Determining Rome’s Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder
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Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
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Puerto Rico: A National History
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Edward I's Neglected Conflict: The Anglo-French War of 1294–1303
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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
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The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times (The Shortest History Series)
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
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Byzantine Empire
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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
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Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
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Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
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1217: The Battles that Saved England
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The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East
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Lost to the Sea: A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland
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The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
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Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
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Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges
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The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History
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The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
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Clay: A Human History
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Money: A Story of Humanity
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Great Churches of London
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Vandal Heaven: Reinterpreting Post-Roman North Africa
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How Muslims Shaped the Americas
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From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
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Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
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A Gentleman from Japan: An Epic Sea Voyage, an Intriguing Tale of Espionage and the Forgotten Story of the First Japanese Explorer in Tudor England
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
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Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King
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Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
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