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The Dictionary of Global Culture

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michael Colin Vazquez

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

By Andro Linklater

The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period

By Amelie Kuhrt (University College London, UK)

History of the Persian Empire

By A. T. Olmstead

The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences

By David Cannadine (University of London)

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By Dan Jones

After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000

By John Darwin

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

By Michael Gomez

The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures

By Marshall C. Eakin

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

By James C. Scott

Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion

By Susan Jacoby

Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War

By Paul Betts

Africa's Discovery of Europe

By Northrup

The Destruction of Memory: Architecture and Cultural Warfare

By Robert Bevan

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

By Toby Green

Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future

By John Dunn

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World

By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Wm. P. Reynolds Professor of History, University of Notre Dame)

Peru: a journey in time

By Cecilia Pardo, Jago Cooper

Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789

By Will Durant

The Mysteries of History: Unravelling the Truth from the Myths of Our Past

By Graeme Donald

Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century

By Neil Postman

The BBC: A People's History

By David Hendy

Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge

By George Rude

Civilizations of the World, Volume B, 1300 - 1800, Chapters 15 - 30: The Human Adventure

By Richard L. Greaves, Robert Zaller, Philip V. Cannistraro, Rhoads Murphey

Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000

By Sir Barry Cunliffe

Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West

By Dr Anthony Pagden (The Johns Hopkins University)

The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800

By Christopher Ehret (Royalty Account)

A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life

By Greg Jenner

The Myths and Mythology of Ancient Egypt

By Lucia Gahlin