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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

By Barzun, Jacques

Practicing History: Selected Essays

By Tuchman, Barbara W.

Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

By Holloway, Richard

Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey Through the Roman Empire

By Speller, Elizabeth

Babylon (Ancient Peoples and Places)

By Joan Oates

The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World Order

By Huntington, Samuel P.

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

By Huizinga, Johan

The Sumerians: Discover History?s First Civilization - Everything You Need to Know About the Sumerians of the Ancient World

By Beckett, Thomas

Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

By Landes, DS

World Of Rome (History of Civilization)

By Grant, Michael

Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France)

By Hargreaves, Alec

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

By Iain McGilchrist

Athens: City of Wisdom

By Clark, Bruce

The Story of Greece and Rome

By Spawforth, Tony

Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

By Miller, Prof. James

A City Through Time

By Noon, Steve

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

The Lost Civilisation of Lemuria: The Rise and Fall of the Worlds Oldest Culture

By Frank, Joseph

A Short History of Decay (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Cioran, E. M.

Father India

By Paine, Jeffery

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

By Schama, Simon

Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History

By Davies, Norman

The Islamic World: A History in Objects (British Museum)

By Ladan Akbarnia, Venetia Porter, Fahmida Suleman, William Greenwood, Zeina Klink-Hoppe, Amandine Mérat

ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy

By Stothard

The Histories

By Herodotus, Cartledge, Paul, Holland, Tom

Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

By Wells, Colin

British Museum Dictionary of the Ancient Near East (Near Eastern)

By Piotr Bienkowski, Alan Millard

The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age

By Rudgley, Richard

The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks: 1

By Field, Jacob F.

On Brick Lane

By Lichtenstein, Rachel