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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

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History

By Jay Winter (University of Cambridge)

Energy: A Human History

By Richard Rhodes

Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity

By Paul Strathern

Money: The Unauthorised Biography

By Felix Martin

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By Burns, E. M.

Western Civilizations: Their History and Their Culture

By Burns, Edward McNall

Quinces: Growing and Cooking

By Jane McMorland-Hunter, Sue Dunster

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

By Nicholas Ostler

In Search of Civil Society

By Nicholas Deakin

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated

By Eric H. Cline