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Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements

By Stephen John Stedman

The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them

By Todd G Buchholz

In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present

By Michael RJ Bonner

The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire

By Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus

The Rise of Western Power: A Comparative History of Western Civilization

By Professor Jonathan Daly

The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome

By Robin Lane Fox

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

By Hargreaves, Alec

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

By Piotr Bienkowski, Alan Millard

Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World

By Wells, Colin

The Histories

By Herodotus, Cartledge, Paul, Holland, Tom

ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy

By Stothard

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

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

Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History

By Davies, Norman

The Embarrassment Of Riches. An Interpretation Of Dutch Culture In The Golden Age

By Schama, Simon

Father India

By Paine, Jeffery

A Short History of Decay (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Cioran, E. M.

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

By Frank, Joseph

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

A City Through Time

By Noon, Steve

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

By Miller, Prof. James

The Story of Greece and Rome

By Spawforth, Tony

Athens: City of Wisdom

By Clark, Bruce

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

By Iain McGilchrist

Bibles: An Illustrated History from Papyrus to Print

By De Hamel, Christopher

Practicing History: Selected Essays

By Tuchman, Barbara W.

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

By Barzun, Jacques

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

By Iain McGilchrist

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

By Boorstin, Daniel J.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World - 1300 to the Twenty-first Century

By Tignor, Robert

Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

By Holloway, Richard