Bibliography of How the Old World Ended by Jonathan Scott

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
53,926 members
854 reviews
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The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,161 members
867 reviews
3.9
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Orientalism
by Edward W. Said
6,754 members
54 reviews
3.9
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The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton
4,637 members
237 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Fatal Shore
by Robert Hughes
4,286 members
57 reviews
4
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London: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
3,545 members
56 reviews
4
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The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena Ferrante
3,396 members
132 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Art of Travel
by Alain de Botton
3,234 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark
2,564 members
54 reviews
4.2
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A Legacy of Spies
by John le Carré
2,418 members
95 reviews
3.9
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Warlight
by Michael Ondaatje
2,408 members
116 reviews
½ 3.7
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Barkskins
by Annie Proulx
1,811 members
88 reviews
3.8
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture In the Golden Age
by Simon Schama
1,736 members
13 reviews
4.1
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by Bernard Bailyn
1,427 members
18 reviews
4.2
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Danube
by Claudio Magris
1,348 members
24 reviews
3.9
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
by Sven Beckert
1,140 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Perspective of the World
by Fernand Braudel
1,055 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
by Gordon S. Wood
1,037 members
2 reviews
4.1
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A History of Civilizations
by Fernand Braudel
1,034 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott
937 members
21 reviews
3.9
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Millennium : A History of the Last Thousand Years
by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
922 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
by Alfred W. Crosby
912 members
7 reviews
4.2
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
by A. T. Mahan
836 members
7 reviews
3.8
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The English and Their History
by Robert Tombs
767 members
10 reviews
4.2
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Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837
by Linda Colley
729 members
4 reviews
3.9
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The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
by Fred Anderson
627 members
13 reviews
3.8
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
by David Wootton
610 members
12 reviews
4.1
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Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
by Roy Porter
586 members
5 reviews
3.9
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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
by Ernst Cassirer
574 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
by J. H. Elliott
568 members
5 reviews
4
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A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714
by Mark Kishlansky
544 members
6 reviews
3.8
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The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806
by Jonathan Israel
540 members
9 reviews
4.1
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The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715
by Paul Hazard
526 members
2 reviews
3.9
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The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
by J. R. McNeill
497 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
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Christendom Destroyed : Europe 1517-1648
by Mark Greengrass
494 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
by Adrian Johns
436 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory
by Lisa Jardine
400 members
6 reviews
3.2
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The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914
by Christopher Alan Bayly
394 members
4 reviews
4.1
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Tudor England
by John Guy
363 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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1688: The First Modern Revolution
by Steven C. A. Pincus
314 members
1 review
3.8
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The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
by Anthony Pagden
302 members
6 reviews
3.8
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God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars
by Michael Braddick
284 members
2 reviews
3.9
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The World We Have Lost: England before the Industrial Age
by Peter Laslett
268 members
3.9
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The New England Mind: From Colony to Province
by Perry Miller
263 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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A Polite and Commercial People: England, 1727-1783
by Paul Langford
245 members
1 review
3.9
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The Old World and the New: 1492-1650
by J. H. Elliott
232 members
1 review
3.8
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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
by Iain McCalman
230 members
6 reviews
4
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The Dutch Seaborne Empire: 1600-1800
by C. R. Boxer
222 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783
by John Brewer
207 members
1 review
4.2
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Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir
by Robert Hughes
205 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas
by Anne Salmond
204 members
2 reviews
3.8
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The Enlightenment in America
by Henry F. May
190 members
4.1
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The Peasants of Languedoc
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
176 members
1 review
4.1
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The Jamestown Project
by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
171 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
by Priya Satia
169 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
by Adam Sisman
166 members
8 reviews
4.2
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The Grand Strategy of Philip II
by Geoffrey Parker
161 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain, 1700-1850
by Joel Mokyr
155 members
2 reviews
4
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Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
by J. R. McNeill
134 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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Pepys: A Biography
by Richard Ollard
127 members
1 review
3.8
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The Cultures of Collecting
by John Elsner
124 members
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The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
by Martin W. Lewis
121 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
by Malcolm Gaskill
116 members
4.2
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The History Manifesto
by Jo Guldi
116 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
by C. B. Schmitt
107 members
1 review
5
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
by David Armitage
107 members
2 reviews
3.8
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The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 (Problems in Focus)
by David Armitage
106 members
½ 3.6
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The Declaration of Independence: A Global History
by David Armitage
104 members
2 reviews
2.9
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The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age
by Maarten Prak
102 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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James II
by John Miller
100 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
by Peter Gay
96 members
1 review
4
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The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
by Patrick Collinson
96 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
by Philip D. Curtin
94 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
by Alison Games
91 members
4
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The European Dynastic States, 1494-1660
by Richard Bonney
91 members
3.1
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Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
by Jack P. Greene
88 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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