Books for History Majors

1.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,265 ratings
2.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,103 ratings
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction 4.02 avg rating — 24,963 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason 4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
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What Is History?
What Is History? 3.94 avg rating — 4,454 ratings
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Assassins of Memory
Assassins of Memory 3.97 avg rating — 72 ratings
6.
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South 4.13 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller 4.01 avg rating — 6,665 ratings
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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference 3.88 avg rating — 854 ratings
10.
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil 4.20 avg rating — 31,564 ratings
11.
History of Beauty
History of Beauty 3.83 avg rating — 65,529 ratings
12.
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Practice of Everyday Life 4.10 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
12.
Who Rules the World?
Who Rules the World? 4.05 avg rating — 11,939 ratings
14.
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology 4.14 avg rating — 850 ratings
15.
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It. 4.09 avg rating — 2,857 ratings
16.
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History 3.78 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
16.
Orientalism
Orientalism 4.13 avg rating — 28,510 ratings
18.
Culture and Imperialism
Culture and Imperialism 4.18 avg rating — 5,662 ratings
19.
On Photography
On Photography 3.88 avg rating — 54,154 ratings
20.
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings
20.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 4.19 avg rating — 24,327 ratings
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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism 4.42 avg rating — 13,661 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
24.
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story 4.61 avg rating — 23,216 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
26.
Le partage du sensible: Esthétique et politique
Le partage du sensible: Esthétique et politique 3.90 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
27.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,239 ratings
28.
Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation
Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation 3.95 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
29.
Critique de la raison nègre
Critique de la raison nègre 4.08 avg rating — 502 ratings
30.
Necropolítica
Necropolítica 4.23 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
31.
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
32.
Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman
Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman 4.03 avg rating — 154 ratings
33.
Strange Defeat
Strange Defeat 3.98 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 4.06 avg rating — 12,765 ratings
35.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity 4.30 avg rating — 3,075 ratings
36.
The Use and Abuse of History
The Use and Abuse of History 3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
37.
Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization
Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization 3.37 avg rating — 30 ratings
38.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 4.42 avg rating — 7,738 ratings
39.
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution 4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
40.
The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World
The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World 4.02 avg rating — 44 ratings
41.
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation 4.56 avg rating — 12,678 ratings
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent 4.31 avg rating — 26,230 ratings
43.
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto 4.02 avg rating — 7,741 ratings
44.
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks 4.26 avg rating — 18,210 ratings
45.
The Danger of A Single Story
The Danger of A Single Story 4.21 avg rating — 8,710 ratings
46.
The Location of Culture
The Location of Culture 3.86 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
47.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by: Max Weber
3.91 avg rating — 14,704 ratings
48.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism 4.30 avg rating — 13,914 ratings
49.
Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive 4.11 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
50.
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation 4.02 avg rating — 210 ratings
51.
Tiempo pasado: Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo
Tiempo pasado: Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo 3.86 avg rating — 121 ratings
52.
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers 3.62 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
53.
Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis
Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis 4.02 avg rating — 371 ratings
54.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections 4.29 avg rating — 12,265 ratings
55.
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health
When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health 4.17 avg rating — 69 ratings
56.
What is Cultural History?
What is Cultural History? 3.68 avg rating — 673 ratings
57.
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other 4.10 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
58.
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options
The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options 4.25 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization 3.98 avg rating — 88 ratings
60.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 4.05 avg rating — 18,779 ratings
61.
Why Read the Classics?
Why Read the Classics? 3.83 avg rating — 3,251 ratings
62.
On Ugliness
On Ugliness 3.88 avg rating — 18,991 ratings
63.
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts 4.09 avg rating — 285 ratings
64.
The Writing of History
The Writing of History 4.04 avg rating — 158 ratings
65.
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature 3.92 avg rating — 2,981 ratings
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order 4.03 avg rating — 7,199 ratings
67.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison 4.24 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
68.
What Is Global History?
What Is Global History? 3.72 avg rating — 293 ratings
69.
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame 4.21 avg rating — 854 ratings
70.
When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa
When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa 3.94 avg rating — 62 ratings
71.
Combats pour l'histoire
Combats pour l'histoire really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings
72.
Democracy Ancient and Modern
Democracy Ancient and Modern 3.89 avg rating — 105 ratings
73.
Varennes : La mort de la royauté (21 juin 1791)
Varennes : La mort de la royauté (21 juin 1791) 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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In 1926: Living on the Edge of Time
In 1926: Living on the Edge of Time 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History
The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History 3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Memories of Odysseus: Tales from the Ancient Greek Frontier
Memories of Odysseus: Tales from the Ancient Greek Frontier 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
A Brief History of Neoliberalism 4.13 avg rating — 7,147 ratings
78.
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution 3.92 avg rating — 2,040 ratings
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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism 4.08 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 4.29 avg rating — 7,612 ratings
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The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 4.22 avg rating — 8,105 ratings
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The Invention of Tradition
The Invention of Tradition 3.96 avg rating — 1,524 ratings
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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality 3.91 avg rating — 2,056 ratings
84.
Bandits
Bandits 3.75 avg rating — 772 ratings
85.
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
86.
The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class 4.21 avg rating — 3,644 ratings
87.
Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health
Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health 4.21 avg rating — 121 ratings
88.
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time 4.20 avg rating — 260 ratings
89.
Writing History, Writing Trauma
Writing History, Writing Trauma 3.82 avg rating — 181 ratings
90.
History and Memory After Auschwitz
History and Memory After Auschwitz 3.46 avg rating — 35 ratings
91.
The Medieval Imagination
The Medieval Imagination 3.98 avg rating — 298 ratings
92.
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
The Autumn of the Middle Ages 4.03 avg rating — 4,253 ratings
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The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century 4.02 avg rating — 2,756 ratings
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Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 4.33 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity 4.24 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Memory, History, Forgetting
Memory, History, Forgetting 4.09 avg rating — 460 ratings
98.
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy
Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy 3.97 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Globalization and Its Discontents
Globalization and Its Discontents 3.83 avg rating — 116 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 4.27 avg rating — 89,937 ratings
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