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Prehistoric Art and Civilization (Discoveries Series)

By Vialou, Denis

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

By Green, Toby

The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

By Diop, Cheikh Anta

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Cultural Triumph and Defeat, 1500 to the Present

By Barzun, Jacques

What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

By Wengrow, David

First Civilizations (History of the World S.)

The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society

By Neima, Anna

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837

By Linda Colley

Civilization: The West and the Rest

By Ferguson, Niall

The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian

By Lane Fox, Robin

The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC - AD 2000

By Lovell, Julia

History of the Ancient Near East: Ca. 3000-323 BC (Blackwell History of the Ancient World)

By Van De Mieroop, Marc

The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome

By White, Leslie A.

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

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By Dan Jones

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