Trinity College Booklist (1951): Class Four, History

1
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
by Edward Chiera
182 members
1 review
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
2
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T. E. Lawrence
5,337 members
64 reviews
4
3
The Gathering Storm
by Winston S. Churchill
2,774 members
28 reviews
½ 4.3
4
The Outline of History
by H. G. Wells
2,494 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
5
The Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
2,380 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
6
Their Finest Hour
by Winston S. Churchill
2,285 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
7
The Life of Greece
by Will Durant
2,053 members
13 reviews
4.1
8
Our Oriental Heritage
by Will Durant
1,967 members
20 reviews
4
9
Caesar and Christ
by Will Durant
1,957 members
14 reviews
4.2
10
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
1,889 members
26 reviews
4
11
The French Revolution: A History
by Thomas Carlyle
1,449 members
15 reviews
3.8
12
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
by Frederick Lewis Allen
1,313 members
32 reviews
4.1
13
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
1,070 members
12 reviews
4.2
14
History of the Conquest of Mexico
by William H. Prescott
878 members
12 reviews
4
15
The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru
786 members
11 reviews
4
16
The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler
713 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
17
Technics and Civilization
by Lewis Mumford
693 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
18
English Social History
by G.M. Trevelyan
658 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
19
The Year of Decision: 1846
by Bernard DeVoto
646 members
8 reviews
4
20
History of the Conquest of Peru
by William H. Prescott
597 members
9 reviews
3.9
21
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command
by Douglas Southall Freeman
562 members
6 reviews
4.2
22
The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
556 members
8 reviews
3.9
23
The History of England from the Accession of James II [complete set]
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
537 members
11 reviews
4
24
France and England in North America, Vol. 1 of 2
by Francis Parkman
530 members
5 reviews
4.1
25
A Shortened History of England
by G. M. Trevelyan
494 members
2 reviews
3.9
26
The History of Rome
by Theodor Mommsen
475 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
29
Montcalm and Wolfe
by Francis Parkman
426 members
5 reviews
4.2
30
Memoirs of My Life
by Edward Gibbon
409 members
9 reviews
4
31
History of the Persian Empire
by A. T. Olmstead
386 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
32
England under the Stuarts
by G. M. Trevelyan
333 members
3 reviews
3.8
33
The World Crisis 1911-1918 [Abridged & Revised, in 1 Volume]
by Winston S. Churchill
324 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
34
The Culture of Cities
by Lewis Mumford
305 members
½ 3.4
35
A Short History of the English People [complete]
by John Richard Green
289 members
2 reviews
3.1
36
A Study Of History: Abridgement of Vols. 1-10 {Somervell, complete}
by Arnold J. Toynbee
252 members
2 reviews
4
37
History of the Arabs: From the Earliest Times to the Present
by Philip K. Hitti
249 members
2 reviews
4
38
Froissart's Chronicles [complete]
by Jean Froissart
236 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
39
The United States and China
by John King Fairbank
223 members
2 reviews
3.9
41
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
by M. Dorothy George
201 members
1 review
4.2
42
History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
by William Hickling Prescott
195 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
43
The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History
by John Lothrop Motley
193 members
6 reviews
3.8
44
The rise of American civilization
by Charles Austin Beard
191 members
½ 3.4
45
The growth of the American Republic
by Samuel Eliot Morison
187 members
3.8
46
An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru
by Jawaharlal Nehru
186 members
5 reviews
3.8
47
A History of Europe
by H. A. L. Fisher
172 members
2 reviews
½ 4.7
49
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
by Francis Parkman
137 members
2 reviews
4.2
51
History of Greece
by George Grote
127 members
13 reviews
5
52
A short history of the Chinese people
by L. Carrington Goodrich
126 members
½ 2.3
53
Critical and Historical Essays
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
119 members
2 reviews
4.8
54
The Inquisition of the Middle Ages
by Henry Charles Lea
118 members
2 reviews
3.8
55
The growth of American thought
by Merle Curti
115 members
4.2
56
The condition of man
by Lewis Mumford
112 members
4
57
Pioneers of France in the New World
by Francis Parkman
110 members
1 review
4
58
Jefferson and Hamilton; the struggle for democracy in America
by Claude G. Bowers
110 members
½ 3.3
60
The conduct of life
by Lewis Mumford
100 members
3.9
61
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
by Francis Parkman
98 members
1 review
3.9
62
The Town Labourer
by J. L. Hammond
92 members
5
63
The Legacy of Greece
by R. W. Livingstone
91 members
2 reviews
4.2
64
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages
by J. J. Jusserand
87 members
1 review
4.2
65
Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV
by Francis Parkman
84 members
4
66
China Shakes the World
by Jack Belden
80 members
67
Travels in France during the years 1787, 1788, 1789
by Arthur Young
74 members
1 review
½ 3.4
68
The Heritage of America
by Henry Steele Commager
71 members
4
69
The Mind in the Making
by James Harvey Robinson
69 members
2 reviews
3.8
71
The Dawn of Conscience
by James Henry Breasted
66 members
2 reviews
5
72
England in the Age of Wycliffe
by G. M. Trevelyan
66 members
3 reviews
4
73
The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages
by Ludovico Pastor
66 members
1 review
74
The Expansion of England
by Sir John Robert Seeley
60 members
½ 4.5
75
The Old Régime in Canada
by Francis Parkman
60 members
4
76
History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages
by Ferdinand Gregorovius
55 members
1 review
4
77
The course of American democratic thought
by Ralph Henry Gabriel
54 members
1
78
History of civilization in England
by Henry Thomas Buckle
52 members
½ 3.5
79
The Skilled Labourer, 1760-1832
by J. L. Hammond
48 members
4
81
The Age of the Despots
by John Addington Symonds
40 members
2
82
The Revival of Learning
by John Addington Symonds
37 members
4
83
The History of Gaul: Celtic, Roman and Frankish Rule
by Frantz Funck-Brentano
36 members
4
85
The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages
by Henry Osborn Taylor
35 members
½ 3.5
86
Europe since 1914
by Frank Lee Benns
35 members
87
The universities of Europe in the Middle Ages
by Hastings Rashdall
28 members
½ 4.5
88
History of Assyria
by A. T. Olmstead
28 members
4
89
The Ancient Régime
by Hippolyte Taine
27 members
½ 3.5
90
History of Syria: Including Lebanon And Palestine
by Philip K. Hitti
24 members
½ 3.6
91
The rise of modern industry
by J. L. Hammond
24 members
92
The History of the Norman Conquest of England
by Edward Augustus Freeman
21 members
93
A History of Babylonia and Assyria [2 Volumes]
by Robert William Rogers
21 members
94
A history of the Inquisition of Spain
by Henry Charles Lea
20 members
96
The Seventeenth Century in France
by Jacques Boulenger
19 members
4
97
Renaissance in Italy: Italian literature. In two parts
by John Addington Symonds
16 members
1 review
½ 4.5
98
The Dawn of History
by Sir John Linton Myres
16 members
100
Mexico and its heritage
by Ernest Gruening
15 members