Ten books that most shaped your view of history

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Ten books that most shaped your view of history
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Diplomacy
por Henry Kissinger
2,378 membros
17 críticas
4.1
2 Members
Bretzky1, puffintopia
2
On the Genealogy of Morality
por Friedrich Nietzsche
3,078 membros
28 críticas
4
2 Members
pomonomo2003, puffintopia
3
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
por Jared M. Diamond
12,197 membros
183 críticas
3.9
2 Members
aulsmith, puffintopia
4
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
por Alexandre Kojève
600 membros
7 críticas
3.9
2 Members
pomonomo2003, puffintopia
5
The Prince
por Niccolò Machiavelli
23,586 membros
253 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
pomonomo2003, ManWithAnAgenda
6
I, Claudius
por Robert Graves
9,170 membros
168 críticas
4.2
2 Members
aulsmith, TheoClarke
7
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
por Paul Kennedy
2,922 membros
20 críticas
4
Member
Bretzky1
8
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
por Anna Comnena
815 membros
10 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Making of the English Landscape
por W. G. Hoskins
575 membros
6 críticas
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
10
Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
por Brian M. Fagan
73 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.3
Member
aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith: It's not a book, it's an audio course, but Fagan completely changed my ideas about how civilization came about.
11
The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems
por Emmanuel Todd
26 membros
1 crítica
5
Member
pomonomo2003
12
The Divine Comedy
por Dante Alighieri
21,716 membros
188 críticas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
13
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
por Ron Rosenbaum
703 membros
15 críticas
4
Member
aulsmith
14
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
por Niall Ferguson
534 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
15
The Pursuit of History
por John Tosh
490 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6
Member
TheoClarke
16
The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum
por Carl Schmitt
126 membros
½ 4.3
Member
pomonomo2003
17
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
por Christopher R. Browning
2,333 membros
35 críticas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
por James J. O'Donnell
367 membros
6 críticas
3.8
Member
aulsmith
19
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
por G. N. Garmonsway
319 membros
2 críticas
3.8
Member
TheoClarke
20
The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?
por Andre Gunder Frank
36 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
pomonomo2003
21
Medieval People
por Eileen Power
1,313 membros
8 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
22
War in Human Civilization
por Azar Gat
203 membros
3 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
23
The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
por George Mosse
99 membros
2 críticas
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
25
The Victoria History of the County of Suffolk. Edited by William Page
por William Page
1 membro
Member
TheoClarke
26
The Anatomy of Revolution
por Crane Brinton
556 membros
7 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
27
Theory of Religion
por Georges Bataille
370 membros
4 críticas
3.8
Member
pomonomo2003
28
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {unabridged - Womersley 3v.}
por Edward Gibbon
205 membros
2 críticas
4.8
Member
Bretzky1
29
Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
por Ezra Pound
80 membros
1 crítica
3.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
30
History and the reader
por G.M. Trevelyan
17 membros
5
Member
TheoClarke
31
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
por Barbara W. Tuchman
7,152 membros
123 críticas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
por Robert Jay Lifton
849 membros
8 críticas
4
Member
aulsmith
33
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
por Peter Paret
692 membros
3 críticas
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
34
Aspects of Anglo-Saxon archaeology: Sutton Hoo and other discoveries
por Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford
31 membros
½ 3.5
Member
TheoClarke
35
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor
por David S. Landes
1,696 membros
19 críticas
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
36
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
por Joseph A. Schumpeter
1,314 membros
11 críticas
4.1
Member
pomonomo2003
37
The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer
por Brian Bates
358 membros
10 críticas
3.9
Member
TheoClarke
38
A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People
por Daguan Zhou
33 membros
2 críticas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
por Jacques Barzun
3,740 membros
38 críticas
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
40
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
por Thomas S. Kuhn
8,073 membros
92 críticas
4
Member
pomonomo2003
41
The Source
por James A. Michener
3,980 membros
61 críticas
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
42
On Revolution
por Hannah Arendt
1,372 membros
11 críticas
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
43
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
por Yitzhak Arad
145 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
44
Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire.
por Isaac Asimov
127 membros
4 críticas
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
45
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {revised & updated}
por James W. Loewen
6,334 membros
97 críticas
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
por Margaret MacMillan
3,228 membros
53 críticas
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
47
The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
por John Toland
586 membros
7 críticas
3.9
Member
aulsmith
48
Guide to Dartmoor
por William Crossing
27 membros
4
Member
TheoClarke
49
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
por Jared Diamond
24,962 membros
375 críticas
4.1
50
The Federalist Papers
por Alexander Hamilton
9,968 membros
67 críticas
4.1
51
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
por Conrad Black
496 membros
4 críticas
½ 4.3
52
We Now Know: rethinking Cold War history
por John Lewis Gaddis
340 membros
4 críticas
½ 3.6
53
A world transformed
por George H. W. Bush
243 membros
1 crítica
3
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George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)
por Douglas Southall Freeman
68 membros
½ 4.7
55
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
por Scott Douglas Sagan
58 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.7
56
Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
por Benjamin A. Valentino
41 membros
3.9
57
The Origins of Major War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
por Dale C. Copeland
40 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.6