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
2,686 members
17 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Bretzky1, puffintopia
3
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
by Anna Comnena
950 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
12 reviews
4
2 Members
TheoClarke, wyfi
5
On the Genealogy of Morality
by Friedrich Nietzsche
3,778 members
31 reviews
4
2 Members
pomonomo2003, puffintopia
6
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
by David Hackett Fischer
2,201 members
36 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
aprille, scipio
7
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
13,425 members
189 reviews
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, puffintopia
9
The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
27,928 members
303 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
pomonomo2003, ManWithAnAgenda
10
I, Claudius
by Robert Graves
10,127 members
181 reviews
4.2
2 Members
aulsmith, TheoClarke
11
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela
5,603 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
2,446 members
37 reviews
4.1
Member
aprille
13
The Making of the English Landscape
by W. G. Hoskins
646 members
6 reviews
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
14
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
by David Edgerton
395 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
26,499 members
223 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
19
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
3,014 members
23 reviews
4
Member
aprille
20
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark
2,583 members
54 reviews
4.2
Member
scipio
21
Connections
by James Burke
1,424 members
17 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
22
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
by Ron Rosenbaum
774 members
15 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
23
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
by Niall Ferguson
581 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
24
The Pursuit of History
by John Tosh
553 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
164 members
½ 4.3
Member
pomonomo2003
28
The Guns of August
by Barbara Tuchman
7,591 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Nonconformisto
29
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
by Roland Bainton
4,178 members
22 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
30
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara Tuchman
3,145 members
38 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
32
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
by James J. O'Donnell
406 members
6 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
33
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
by G. N. Garmonsway
346 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
TheoClarke
34
Deutsche Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
by Golo Mann
302 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
2,877 members
32 reviews
4.1
Member
scipio
37
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
by Annette Gordon-Reed
1,505 members
37 reviews
3.9
Member
aprille
38
Medieval People
by Eileen Power
1,438 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
39
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
by Robert F. Kennedy
1,431 members
22 reviews
3.9
Member
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
1,305 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
46
The Meaning of Hitler
by Sebastian Haffner
812 members
7 reviews
4.2
Member
scipio
47
The Anatomy of Revolution
by Crane Brinton
604 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
48
Seven Days in May
by Fletcher Knebel
556 members
14 reviews
4
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Nonconformisto
49
Theory of Religion
by Georges Bataille
411 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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
9,067 members
117 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Nonconformisto
55
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
8,063 members
135 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
56
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
977 members
9 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
57
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
by Peter Paret
772 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
58
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
by Alfred F. Young
377 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
1,577 members
14 reviews
4.2
Member
aprille
62
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
by Joseph Schumpeter
1,521 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
4,414 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
4,097 members
41 reviews
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
68
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
1,420 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
aprille
69
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
9,041 members
95 reviews
4
Member
pomonomo2003
70
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,668 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
ahef1963
71
The Source
by James A. Michener
4,371 members
63 reviews
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
72
On Revolution
by Hannah Arendt
1,638 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
165 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
75
Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire.
by Isaac Asimov
145 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
76
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
6,976 members
99 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
77
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,155 members
195 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
ahef1963
78
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret MacMillan
3,639 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
Member
TheoClarke
82
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,735 members
407 reviews
4.1
83
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton
11,712 members
77 reviews
4.1
84
The Elizabethan World Picture
by E. M. W. Tillyard
1,228 members
11 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
383 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
75 members
4.8
89
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
by Scott Douglas Sagan
64 members
1 review
4.8
90
The Origins of Major War
by Dale C. Copeland
47 members
1 review
½ 3.6