Charles King

Charles King's books

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

4.26 avg rating — 2,337 ratings

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul

4.05 avg rating — 1,737 ratings

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

3.94 avg rating — 746 ratings

The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus

3.75 avg rating — 520 ratings

Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

3.81 avg rating — 496 ratings

The Black Sea: A History

3.99 avg rating — 241 ratings

The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture

4.12 avg rating — 115 ratings

The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture

4.09 avg rating — 108 ratings

Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings

Ending Civil Wars

3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings