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Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe After the Second World War

By Paul Betts

Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion

By Susan Jacoby

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

By James C. Scott

The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures

By Marshall C. Eakin

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

By Michael Gomez

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

By John Darwin

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By Dan Jones

The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences

By David Cannadine (University of London)

History of the Persian Empire

By A. T. Olmstead

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

By Amelie Kuhrt (University College London, UK)

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

By Andro Linklater

The Dictionary of Global Culture

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

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

By Michael Gomez

The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000

By Lecturer in Medieval History Chris Wickham (University of Birmingham)

Albion: Origins of the English Imagination

By Peter Ackroyd, Nan A Talese

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

By Nigel Cliff

When in Germany, Do as the Germans Do

By Hyde Flippo

A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History

By Professor of Visual Psychology Nicholas Wade

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By Timothy Snyder

Vanished Civilizations

By Reader's Digest

The " Hitler Myth

By Ian Kershaw

Food Is Culture

By Massimo Montanari, Albert Sonnenfeld

Eccentric Culture - A Theory of Western Civilization

By Remi Brague, Samuel Lester

PUGNARE: Economic Success and Failure

By GEORGE MAHER

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal

By Jared M Diamond

As the Future Catches You: How Genomics and Other Forces are Changing Your Work, Health, and Wealth

By Juan Enriquez

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community

By William H. McNeill

Conquests and Cultures: An International History

By Thomas Sowell

A History of the Book in 100 Books

By Roderick Cave, Sara Ayad