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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 399 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,442 ratings — published 1997
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,255,725 ratings — published 2011
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 250 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,500 ratings — published 2015
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 205 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,615 ratings — published 2004
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 170 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,791 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,062 ratings — published 2005
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 81,162 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,001 ratings — published 1960
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,579 ratings — published 2002
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 124 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,502 ratings — published 1962
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,611 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 421,753 ratings — published 2003
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 116,275 ratings — published 2015
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,963 ratings — published 2011
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 6,607 ratings — published 2007
A Little History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 31,784 ratings — published 1936
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.41 — 12,633 ratings — published 2009
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,083 ratings — published 1978
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,130 ratings — published 2021
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,478 ratings — published 1997
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,180,334 ratings — published 1947
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,555 ratings — published 2019
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,549 ratings — published 2004
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,192 ratings — published 1946
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,448 ratings — published 1962
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 219,553 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,360,793 ratings — published 1956
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 9,787 ratings — published 1989
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 164,837 ratings — published 2018
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as world-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,722 ratings — published 2005
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 7,849 ratings — published 1994
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,407 ratings — published 1987
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 15,092 ratings — published 2001
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 18,993 ratings — published 2003
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 161,209 ratings — published 2015
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 28,407 ratings — published 2014
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,739 ratings — published 2005
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,901 ratings — published 2017
The New Penguin History of The World (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,534 ratings — published 1976
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 205,945 ratings — published 2023
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,459 ratings — published 1987
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,919 ratings — published 2010
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,691 ratings — published 2010
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,580 ratings — published 2003
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,495 ratings — published 2019
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,224 ratings — published 2010
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 136,731 ratings — published 2020
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,472 ratings — published 1776
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,385 ratings — published
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as world-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,205 ratings — published 2003
“World history mirrors the judgment of time that results in results to learn, not verdicts to punish.”
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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
