History around the world (non fiction)

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,103 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating — 66,227 ratings
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present 4.08 avg rating — 259,728 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,301 ratings
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The Fatal Shore
The Fatal Shore 4.09 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by: Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,689 ratings
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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember 4.09 avg rating — 27,696 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,853 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,242 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,878 ratings
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The Basque History of the World
The Basque History of the World 3.87 avg rating — 5,450 ratings
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The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg 4.05 avg rating — 6,114 ratings
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India 4.17 avg rating — 12,330 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating — 27,086 ratings
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World 3.92 avg rating — 24,366 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,878 ratings
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 4.03 avg rating — 6,180 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy 3.72 avg rating — 4,657 ratings
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Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 4.19 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
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To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 4.23 avg rating — 3,980 ratings
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,389 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England 4.09 avg rating — 5,668 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century 4.01 avg rating — 25,929 ratings
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Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth 4.11 avg rating — 12,165 ratings
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World 4.17 avg rating — 46,209 ratings
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects 4.19 avg rating — 9,175 ratings
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Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History 3.75 avg rating — 75,182 ratings
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The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,615 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,397 ratings
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The Oxford History of the French Revolution
The Oxford History of the French Revolution 3.82 avg rating — 1,174 ratings
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Pompeii : The Living City
Pompeii : The Living City 3.90 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder 3.50 avg rating — 547 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth 3.86 avg rating — 974 ratings
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt 3.65 avg rating — 7,515 ratings
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery 4.41 avg rating — 51 ratings
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A History of India: From the 16th Century to the 20th Century
A History of India: From the 16th Century to the 20th Century 3.77 avg rating — 231 ratings
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris 3.98 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation 4.20 avg rating — 2,534 ratings
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Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A History of India, Vol. 1: From Origins to 1300
A History of India, Vol. 1: From Origins to 1300 3.62 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956
Lords of the Atlas: The Rise and Fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956 3.70 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Templars: History & Myth
The Templars: History & Myth 3.69 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History 4.05 avg rating — 70,033 ratings
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The Cold War: A Military History
The Cold War: A Military History 3.59 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris 3.58 avg rating — 648 ratings
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A Criminal History of Mankind
A Criminal History of Mankind 3.90 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: the Ill-Fated British and Russian Royal Alliance
The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: the Ill-Fated British and Russian Royal Alliance 3.75 avg rating — 145 ratings
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
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How We Found the Mary Rose
How We Found the Mary Rose 4.20 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War 3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence 3.50 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom
A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom 3.33 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic 4.19 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
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The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization
The Long Summer : How Climate Changed Civilization 3.88 avg rating — 749 ratings
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It's an Old Lancashire Custom
It's an Old Lancashire Custom 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World 3.99 avg rating — 3,775 ratings
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Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age 3.98 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
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The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code 4.01 avg rating — 434 ratings
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The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother 3.83 avg rating — 3,703 ratings
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The Glory and the Dream - A Narrative History of America - 1932-1972
The Glory and the Dream - A Narrative History of America - 1932-1972 4.43 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
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Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present 3.88 avg rating — 484 ratings
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The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon 3.55 avg rating — 444 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,370 ratings
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Africa: A History
Africa: A History 3.52 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World 3.73 avg rating — 6,475 ratings
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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter 4.08 avg rating — 40,822 ratings
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World 4.20 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey 3.86 avg rating — 13,218 ratings
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A History of the Arab Peoples
A History of the Arab Peoples 3.88 avg rating — 4,552 ratings
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Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants 3.35 avg rating — 3,585 ratings
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1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England 3.92 avg rating — 3,429 ratings
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815 - 1914 4.15 avg rating — 1,943 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled 3.92 avg rating — 2,613 ratings
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The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 4.08 avg rating — 1,366 ratings
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Southern Ladies' Civil War And Antebellum Fashions 1855 1865
Southern Ladies' Civil War And Antebellum Fashions 1855 1865 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 3.64 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,303 ratings
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Europe in the High Middle Ages
Europe in the High Middle Ages 3.74 avg rating — 733 ratings
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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 3.93 avg rating — 3,038 ratings
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The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine 3.84 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Europe: A History
Europe: A History 4.21 avg rating — 5,139 ratings
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World 4.13 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 4.39 avg rating — 18,869 ratings
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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
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 3.81 avg rating — 46,388 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain 4.22 avg rating — 1,993 ratings
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The Second World War
The Second World War 4.11 avg rating — 5,020 ratings
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The First World War
The First World War 4.04 avg rating — 15,645 ratings
90.
Storm of Steel
Storm of Steel 4.15 avg rating — 20,491 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created 4.12 avg rating — 20,587 ratings
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus 4.05 avg rating — 93,191 ratings
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World 3.90 avg rating — 30,149 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,601 ratings
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Day
Day 3.79 avg rating — 13,724 ratings
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Dawn
Dawn 3.83 avg rating — 22,541 ratings
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The Penguin History of the World
The Penguin History of the World 4.08 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 4-6
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 4-6 4.37 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 4.02 avg rating — 15,257 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World 4.06 avg rating — 81,022 ratings
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