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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

By Robertson, Ritchie

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)

By Gibbon, Edward, Womersley, David

This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

By Read, Rupert, Alexander, Samuel

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

By Woolf, Greg

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

By Matyszak, Philip

The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800

By Christopher Ehret

Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death

By Hassett, Brenna

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

By Spitzer, Michael

The Prospect of Global History

By Belich, James, Darwin, John, Frenz, Margret, Wickham, Chris

How to Invent Everything: Rebuild All of Civilization (with 96% fewer catastrophes this time)

By North, Ryan

A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change - and the Limits of Evolution

By Fernández-Armesto, Felipe

Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology

By Chant, Colin, Goodman, David

The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian

By Lane Fox, Robin

Practicing History: Selected Essays

By Tuchman, Barbara W.

Social Psychology and Modernity

By Johansson

Social History of Rome

By Alfoldy, Geza, Braund, D., Pollock, F.

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

By Scott, James C.

Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power

By Ferguson, Niall

The Republic: Plato

By Plato, Alexander Nehamas, Alexander D. Lindsay

Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity (PCVS-Polity Conversations Series)

By Giddens, Anthony, Pierson, Christopher

Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain

By Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman

The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery

By Falk, Seb

The Mainstream Civilization to 1715, fifth edition.

By Joseph R. Strayer, Stanley Chodorow, MacGregor Knox, Conrad Schirokauer, Hans W. Gatzke

Social Psychology and Modernity

By Johansson, Thomas

The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World

By Jotischky, Andrew, Hull, Caroline, Haywood, John, Hall, Simon

The Penguin History of the World: 6th edition

By Roberts, J M, Westad, Odd Arne

Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith: As seen on TV

By Beard, Professor Mary

What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us?: How It Shaped the Modern World

By Hill, Jonathan

How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

By Wheen, Francis

The Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

By ROAF, Michael, Postgate, J. Nicholas