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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,461 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 284 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,338,779 ratings — published 2011
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,924 ratings — published 2015
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 221 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,422 ratings — published 2004
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 184 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,934 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 99,276 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,847 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 154,023 ratings — published 1960
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 82,159 ratings — published 2002
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 125 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,127 ratings — published 1962
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 118 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,370 ratings — published 2015
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,015 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 437,964 ratings — published 2003
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,686 ratings — published 2011
A Little History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,747 ratings — published 1936
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,323 ratings — published 2021
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,925 ratings — published 2007
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,747 ratings — published 1978
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 13,826 ratings — published 2009
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 58,706 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,457 ratings — published 2019
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,822 ratings — published 1946
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,351,091 ratings — published 1947
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,557 ratings — published 2004
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,016 ratings — published 1962
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,409,641 ratings — published 2012
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 245,191 ratings — published 2023
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 227,206 ratings — published 2011
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 200,877 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,241 ratings — published 1994
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 35,408 ratings — published 2005
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,139 ratings — published 1989
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,710 ratings — published 1987
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 20,114 ratings — published 2003
The Full Circle for Mick (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,568 ratings — published
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,347 ratings — published 2014
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,348 ratings — published 2005
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,513 ratings — published 2001
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,482 ratings — published 2003
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,683 ratings — published 2017
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,649 ratings — published 2015
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 20,313 ratings — published 2019
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,681 ratings — published 1987
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,096 ratings — published 2010
The New Penguin History of The World (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,606 ratings — published 1976
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 145,358 ratings — published 2020
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,371 ratings — published 2010
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 27,455 ratings — published 2024
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,842 ratings — published 1776
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,753 ratings — published 2003
“We hope to show that it is possible to read humanity's development as a dismemberment of sorcery, and propose that our current over-specialised and compartmentalised world of ideas is built entirely from the bloody gobbets of a butchered, pre-existing dreamtime.”
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“The world doesn't have history,
what we have is whitewashed history.
The world doesn't have progress,
what we have is westwashed progress.”
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
what we have is whitewashed history.
The world doesn't have progress,
what we have is westwashed progress.”
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
