Trinity College Booklist (1951): Class Four, History

1
They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Today
by Edward Chiera
160 members
1 review
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
2
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T. E. Lawrence
4,805 members
55 reviews
4
3
The Waning of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
3,296 members
37 reviews
4
4
The Gathering Storm
by Winston S. Churchill
2,418 members
24 reviews
½ 4.3
5
The Outline of History
by H. G. Wells
2,211 members
12 reviews
3.8
6
The Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
2,083 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
7
Their Finest Hour
by Winston S. Churchill
2,008 members
20 reviews
½ 4.3
8
The Life of Greece
by Will Durant
1,838 members
10 reviews
4.1
9
Our Oriental Heritage
by Will Durant
1,762 members
19 reviews
4
10
Caesar and Christ
by Will Durant
1,753 members
13 reviews
4.2
11
The French Revolution: A History
by Thomas Carlyle
1,288 members
14 reviews
3.8
12
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
by Frederick Lewis Allen
1,202 members
27 reviews
4.1
13
History of the Russian Revolution
by Leon Trotsky
900 members
10 reviews
4.2
14
History of the Conquest of Mexico
by William H. Prescott
793 members
12 reviews
3.9
15
The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru
710 members
10 reviews
4
16
The Decline of the West
by Oswald Spengler
609 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
17
Technics and Civilization
by Lewis Mumford
608 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
18
English Social History
by G.M. Trevelyan
597 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
19
The Year of Decision: 1846
by Bernard DeVoto
582 members
8 reviews
4
20
History of the Conquest of Peru
by William H. Prescott
526 members
8 reviews
3.8
21
The Frontier in American History
by Frederick Jackson Turner
509 members
7 reviews
3.9
22
France and England in North America, Vol. 1
by Francis Parkman
506 members
4 reviews
4.2
23
Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command
by Douglas Southall Freeman
502 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
24
The History of England from the Accession of James II [complete set]
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
499 members
11 reviews
4.1
25
A Shortened History of England
by George Macaulay Trevelyan
457 members
2 reviews
3.9
27
The History of Rome
by Theodor Mommsen
404 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
29
Memoirs of My Life
by Edward Gibbon
399 members
10 reviews
4
30
Montcalm and Wolfe
by Francis Parkman
381 members
5 reviews
4.2
31
History of the Persian Empire
by A. T. Olmstead
348 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
32
England under the Stuarts
by George Macaulay Trevelyan
315 members
2 reviews
3.9
33
The World Crisis 1911-1918 [Abridged & Revised, in 1 Volume]
by Winston S. Churchill
291 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
34
The Culture of Cities
by Lewis Mumford
258 members
½ 3.4
35
A Short History of the English People
by John Richard Green
252 members
2 reviews
3.1
36
Froissart's Chronicles
by Jean Froissart
241 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
37
The Inquisition of the Middle Ages
by Henry Charles Lea
218 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
38
History of the Arabs
by Philip K. Hitti
217 members
2 reviews
4.1
40
The United States and China
by John King Fairbank
206 members
1 review
3.9
41
The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History
by John Lothrop Motley
185 members
5 reviews
3.8
42
London Life in the Eighteenth Century
by M. Dorothy George
182 members
1 review
4.2
44
The rise of American civilization
by Charles Austin Beard
176 members
½ 3.7
45
The growth of the American Republic
by Samuel Eliot Morison
171 members
3.8
46
History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella
by William Hickling Prescott
168 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
47
An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru
by Jawaharlal Nehru
161 members
5 reviews
3.8
48
A History of Europe
by H. A. L. Fisher
151 members
2 reviews
½ 4.7
50
History of Greece
by George Grote
126 members
13 reviews
5
52
A short history of the Chinese people
by L. Carrington Goodrich
116 members
½ 2.3
53
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
by Francis Parkman
112 members
1 review
½ 4.3
54
Critical and Historical Essays
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
110 members
2 reviews
4.8
55
Pioneers of France in the New World
by Francis Parkman
105 members
1 review
3.8
56
Jefferson and Hamilton; the struggle for democracy in America
by Claude G. Bowers
105 members
½ 3.3
57
The condition of man
by Lewis Mumford
104 members
4
58
The growth of American thought
by Merle Curti
102 members
4.2
59
The conduct of life
by Lewis Mumford
93 members
3.9
60
The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada
by Francis Parkman
92 members
1 review
3.9
61
The Village Labourer
by J. L. Hammond
91 members
4
62
The Legacy of Greece
by R. W. Livingstone
86 members
2 reviews
4.2
63
The Town Labourer
by J. L. Hammond
85 members
5
64
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages
by J. J. Jusserand
78 members
1 review
4.2
65
China Shakes the World
by Jack Belden
73 members
66
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
by Francis Parkman
72 members
4
67
Travels in France during the years 1787, 1788, 1789
by Arthur Young
68 members
1 review
½ 3.4
70
The Heritage of America
by Henry Steele Commager
64 members
72
England in the Age of Wycliffe
by George Macaulay Trevelyan
61 members
3 reviews
4
73
The Dawn of Conscience
by James Henry Breasted
57 members
2 reviews
5
74
The Old Regime in Canada
by Francis Parkman
53 members
4
75
The Expansion of England
by Sir John Robert Seeley
49 members
½ 4.5
76
History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages
by Ferdinand Gregorovius
49 members
1 review
4
77
The course of American democratic thought
by Ralph Henry Gabriel
47 members
1
78
History of civilization in England
by Henry Thomas Buckle
44 members
½ 3.5
79
The Skilled Labourer, 1760-1832
by J. L. Hammond
43 members
4
81
The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages
by Henry Osborn Taylor
36 members
½ 3.5
82
The Age of the Despots
by John Addington Symonds
35 members
2
83
The History of Gaul: Celtic, Roman and Frankish Rule
by Frantz Funck-Brentano
32 members
4
84
The Revival of Learning
by John Addington Symonds
31 members
4
86
Europe since 1914
by Frank Lee Benns
29 members
87
The Ancient Regime
by Hippolyte Taine
25 members
3
88
History of Assyria
by A. T. Olmstead
23 members
4
89
History of Syria: Including Lebanon And Palestine
by Philip K. Hitti
22 members
3.8
91
The rise of modern industry
by J. L. Hammond
19 members
92
The History of the Norman Conquest of England
by Edward Augustus Freeman
19 members
93
The Seventeenth Century in France
by Jacques Boulenger
17 members
4
94
A History of Babylonia and Assyria [2 Volumes]
by Robert William Rogers
17 members
96
The universities of Europe in the Middle Ages
by Hastings Rashdall
16 members
4
97
A history of the Inquisition of Spain
by Henry Charles Lea
16 members
98
The Greatness and Decline of Rome
by Guglielmo Ferrero
14 members
1 review
5
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The Dawn of History
by Sir John Linton Myres
14 members
100
The French Revolution
by Louis Madelin
13 members
3