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World History Recommendations
Featured
 Spice:
the History of a Temptation
by Jack Turner
Spices
helped draw Europeans into their age of expansion, but the
Western world was far from ignorant of them before that
time. Turner's lively and wide-ranging account begins with
the voyages of discovery, but demonstrates that, even in
ancient times, spices from distant India and Indonesia made
their way west and fueled the European imagination.
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Ripples
of Battle:
How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We
Live, and How We Think
by Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson examines three great military encounters
in history: Okinawa, Shiloh, and Delium, and connects past
wars with current policy. |
Salt:
A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
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Salt
has a long and intriguing history. Kurlansky demonstrates
how important salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning. |
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The
Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In
History
by John M. Barry
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The
flu epidemic killed 40 million people on the heels of the
great devastation of World War I. This best-selling and critically
acclaimed book tells the fascinating story.
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How
the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's
Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval
Europe
by Thomas Cahill
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A
History of the Jews
by
Paul Johnson
From
Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
by
Jacques Barzun
The
Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the
Way Everyone Thinks and Feels
by
Thomas Cahill
The
Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
by
David Brion Davis
Uppity
Women of Ancient Times
by
Vicki Leon
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Words
That Shook the World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches
and Events
by
Richard Greene and others
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Galileo's
Daughter
by Dava Sobel
Dava
Sobel bases her bestselling book on 124 surviving letters
to Galileo from the his illegitimate daughter, Sister Mary
Celeste.
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Europe:
A History
by Norman Davies
a
magnum opus, the history of Europe from pre-history to the
dismantling of the Soviet Union
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Guns,
Germs, and Steel by
Jared Diamond
Diamond
examines the geographical factors that caused Europe to develop
in ways that led to global domination |
Coal:
A Human History
by Barbara Freese
"Deleterious
to health and beneficial to wealth, coal contains a tension
that makes its story a compelling one." Booklist
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