Trinity College Booklist (1951): Class Four, History

1
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
by Edward Chiera
183 members
1 review
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
2
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T. E. Lawrence
5,359 members
65 reviews
4
3
The Gathering Storm
by Winston S. Churchill
2,793 members
29 reviews
½ 4.3
4
The Outline of History
by H. G. Wells
2,503 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
5
The Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
2,387 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
6
Their Finest Hour
by Winston S. Churchill
2,299 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
7
The Life of Greece
by Will Durant
2,059 members
12 reviews
4.1
8
Caesar and Christ
by Will Durant
1,967 members
13 reviews
4.2
9
Our Oriental Heritage
by Will Durant
1,966 members
18 reviews
4
10
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
1,898 members
26 reviews
4
11
The French Revolution: A History
by Thomas Carlyle
1,444 members
14 reviews
3.8
12
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
by Frederick Lewis Allen
1,317 members
32 reviews
4.1
13
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
1,073 members
12 reviews
4.2
14
History of the Conquest of Mexico
by William H. Prescott
879 members
12 reviews
4
15
The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru
789 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
701 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
18
English Social History
by G.M. Trevelyan
660 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
19
The Year of Decision: 1846
by Bernard DeVoto
651 members
8 reviews
4
20
History of the Conquest of Peru
by William H. Prescott
600 members
9 reviews
3.9
21
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command
by Douglas Southall Freeman
566 members
6 reviews
4.2
22
The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
560 members
8 reviews
3.9
23
The History of England from the Accession of James II [complete set]
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
541 members
11 reviews
4.1
24
France and England in North America, Vol. 1 of 2
by Francis Parkman
531 members
5 reviews
4.1
25
A Shortened History of England
by G. M. Trevelyan
493 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
429 members
5 reviews
4.2
30
Memoirs of My Life
by Edward Gibbon
412 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
335 members
3 reviews
3.8
33
The World Crisis 1911-1918 [Abridged & Revised, in 1 Volume]
by Winston S. Churchill
327 members
3 reviews
½ 4.4
34
The Culture of Cities
by Lewis Mumford
307 members
½ 3.4
35
A Study Of History: Abridgement of Vols. 1-10 {Somervell, complete}
by Arnold J. Toynbee
252 members
2 reviews
4
36
History of the Arabs: From the Earliest Times to the Present
by Philip K. Hitti
250 members
2 reviews
4
37
Froissart's Chronicles [complete]
by Jean Froissart
238 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
38
The United States and China
by John King Fairbank
226 members
2 reviews
3.9
40
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
by M. Dorothy George
201 members
1 review
4.2
41
History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
by William Hickling Prescott
197 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
42
The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History
by John Lothrop Motley
194 members
6 reviews
3.8
43
The rise of American civilization
by Charles Austin Beard
191 members
½ 3.4
44
An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru
by Jawaharlal Nehru
188 members
5 reviews
3.8
45
The growth of the American Republic
by Samuel Eliot Morison
187 members
3.8
46
A History of Europe
by H. A. L. Fisher
172 members
2 reviews
½ 4.7
48
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
by Francis Parkman
137 members
2 reviews
4.2
50
History of Greece
by George Grote
127 members
13 reviews
5
51
A short history of the Chinese people
by L. Carrington Goodrich
126 members
½ 2.3
52
The Inquisition of the Middle Ages
by Henry Charles Lea
123 members
2 reviews
3.8
53
Critical and Historical Essays
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
120 members
2 reviews
4.8
54
The growth of American thought
by Merle Curti
115 members
4.2
55
The condition of man
by Lewis Mumford
113 members
4
56
Pioneers of France in the New World
by Francis Parkman
111 members
1 review
4
57
Jefferson and Hamilton; the struggle for democracy in America
by Claude G. Bowers
111 members
½ 3.3
59
The conduct of life
by Lewis Mumford
103 members
3.9
60
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
by Francis Parkman
98 members
1 review
3.9
61
The Town Labourer
by J. L. Hammond
92 members
5
62
The Legacy of Greece
by R. W. Livingstone
91 members
2 reviews
4.2
63
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages
by J. J. Jusserand
87 members
1 review
4.2
64
Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV
by Francis Parkman
84 members
4
65
China Shakes the World
by Jack Belden
80 members
66
Travels in France during the years 1787, 1788, 1789
by Arthur Young
74 members
1 review
½ 3.4
67
The Heritage of America
by Henry Steele Commager
71 members
4
68
The Mind in the Making
by James Harvey Robinson
69 members
2 reviews
3.8
70
A short history of the English people
by John Richard Green
67 members
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
80
Renaissance in Italy
by John Addington Symonds
44 members
1 review
½ 4.5
82
The Age of the Despots
by John Addington Symonds
40 members
2
83
The Revival of Learning
by John Addington Symonds
37 members
4
84
The History of Gaul: Celtic, Roman and Frankish Rule
by Frantz Funck-Brentano
36 members
4
86
The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages
by Henry Osborn Taylor
35 members
½ 3.5
87
Europe since 1914
by Frank Lee Benns
35 members
88
The universities of Europe in the Middle Ages
by Hastings Rashdall
28 members
½ 4.5
89
History of Assyria
by A. T. Olmstead
28 members
4
90
The Ancient Régime
by Hippolyte Taine
27 members
½ 3.5
91
History of Syria: Including Lebanon And Palestine
by Philip K. Hitti
24 members
½ 3.6
92
The rise of modern industry
by J. L. Hammond
24 members
93
The History of the Norman Conquest of England
by Edward Augustus Freeman
21 members
94
A History of Babylonia and Assyria [2 Volumes]
by Robert William Rogers
20 members
95
The Seventeenth Century in France
by Jacques Boulenger
19 members
4
96
A history of the Inquisition of Spain
by Henry Charles Lea
19 members
98
The Dawn of History
by Sir John Linton Myres
17 members
100
Mexico and its heritage
by Ernest Gruening
15 members