Ten books that most shaped your view of history

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Ten books that most shaped your view of history
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Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger
2,678 members
17 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Bretzky1, puffintopia
3
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
by Anna Comnena
948 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer
by Brian Bates
391 members
11 reviews
3.9
2 Members
TheoClarke, wyfi
5
On the Genealogy of Morality
by Friedrich Nietzsche
3,784 members
31 reviews
4
2 Members
pomonomo2003, puffintopia
6
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
by David Hackett Fischer
2,193 members
36 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
aprille, scipio
7
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
13,379 members
190 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, puffintopia
9
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,786 members
304 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
pomonomo2003, ManWithAnAgenda
10
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
10,095 members
180 reviews
4.2
2 Members
aulsmith, TheoClarke
11
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
5,575 members
72 reviews
½ 4.3
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ahef1963
12
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2,442 members
37 reviews
4.1
Member
aprille
13
The Making of the English Landscape
by W. G. Hoskins
643 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
14
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
by David Edgerton
391 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
hipdeep
15
Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
by Brian M. Fagan
103 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith: It's not a book, it's an audio course, but Fagan completely changed my ideas about how civilization came about.
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The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems
by Emmanuel Todd
33 members
1 review
5
Member
pomonomo2003
17
Der Weg in die Geschichte. Die Ursprünge Deutschlands bis 1024.
by Johannes Fried
12 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
scipio
18
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
26,285 members
221 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
19
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
3,005 members
22 reviews
4
Member
aprille
20
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark
2,581 members
54 reviews
4.2
Member
scipio
21
Connections
by James Burke
1,421 members
17 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
22
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
775 members
15 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
23
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
by Niall Ferguson
580 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
24
The Pursuit of History
by John Tosh
552 members
1 review
½ 3.7
Member
TheoClarke
25
The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum
by Carl Schmitt
161 members
½ 4.3
Member
pomonomo2003
28
The Guns of August
by Barbara Tuchman
7,559 members
143 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Nonconformisto
29
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
by Roland Bainton
4,149 members
22 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
30
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara Tuchman
3,136 members
38 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
32
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
by James J. O'Donnell
405 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
33
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
by G. N. Garmonsway
344 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
TheoClarke
34
Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
by Golo Mann
301 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
scipio
35
The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?
by Andre Gunder Frank
41 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
pomonomo2003
36
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2,868 members
32 reviews
4.1
Member
scipio
37
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
1,500 members
37 reviews
3.9
Member
aprille
38
Medieval People
by Eileen Power
1,436 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
39
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Robert F. Kennedy
1,426 members
21 reviews
3.9
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Nonconformisto
40
War in Human Civilization
by Azar Gat
235 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
41
The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity
by George L. Mosse
116 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
45
Life in a Medieval Village
by Frances Gies
1,301 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
46
The Meaning of Hitler
by Sebastian Haffner
810 members
7 reviews
4.2
Member
scipio
47
The Anatomy of Revolution
by Crane Brinton
603 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
48
Seven Days in May
by Fletcher Knebel
553 members
14 reviews
4
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Nonconformisto
49
Theory of Religion
by Georges Bataille
409 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
pomonomo2003
50
Prehistoric Textiles
by E.J.W. Barber
292 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
aprille
51
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {unabridged - Womersley 3v.}
by Edward Gibbon
203 members
1 review
4.9
Member
Bretzky1
52
Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
by Ezra Pound
89 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
53
History and the reader
by G.M. Trevelyan
20 members
5
Member
TheoClarke
54
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William L. Shirer
9,019 members
118 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Nonconformisto
55
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
8,020 members
135 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
56
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
974 members
9 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
57
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
by Peter Paret
773 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
58
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
by Alfred F. Young
374 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
aprille
60
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes
1,883 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
61
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
by William Cronon
1,573 members
14 reviews
4.2
Member
aprille
62
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
by Joseph Schumpeter
1,512 members
11 reviews
4
Member
pomonomo2003
63
The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
by Jonathan Riley-Smith
140 members
1 review
4
Member
ahef1963
64
A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People
by Daguan Zhou
42 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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Récidive : 1938
by Michaël Foessel
7 members
Member
scipio
66
The Rule of St. Benedict
by Saint Benedict
4,390 members
45 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
67
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
by Jacques Barzun
4,079 members
42 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
68
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
1,415 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
aprille
69
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
9,042 members
96 reviews
4
Member
pomonomo2003
70
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,611 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
ahef1963
71
The Source
by James A. Michener
4,363 members
63 reviews
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
72
On Revolution
by Hannah Arendt
1,628 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
73
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
by John R. Stilgoe
343 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aprille
74
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
by Yitzhak Arad
164 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
75
Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire.
by Isaac Asimov
144 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
76
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
6,954 members
99 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
77
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,228 members
198 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
78
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
3,625 members
57 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
80
History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past
by Edward T. Linenthal
248 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
aprille
81
Guide to Dartmoor
by William Crossing
28 members
4
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TheoClarke
82
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,805 members
408 reviews
4.1
83
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton
11,653 members
76 reviews
4.1
84
The Elizabethan World Picture
by E. M. W. Tillyard
1,227 members
10 reviews
3.8
85
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
by Conrad Black
534 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
86
We Now Know: rethinking Cold War history
by John Lewis Gaddis
382 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
87
A world transformed
by George H. W. Bush
270 members
1 review
3
88
George Washington: A Biography
by Douglas Southall Freeman
74 members
4.8
89
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
by Scott Douglas Sagan
64 members
1 review
4.8
91
The Origins of Major War
by Dale C. Copeland
46 members
1 review
½ 3.6