Westernization of the West
1. 
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
by:
Tom Holland
4.27 avg rating — 10,408 ratings 
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.12 avg rating — 3,969 ratings 4. 
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
by:
Violet Moller
3.88 avg rating — 2,141 ratings 5. 
In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Letter and the Cosmos: How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
by:
Stuart Isacoff
3.89 avg rating — 592 ratings 8. 
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
by:
Michael Massing
4.43 avg rating — 707 ratings 9. 
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
by:
Philipp Blom
3.57 avg rating — 1,187 ratings 10. 
Why We're All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World
by:
Carl J. Richard
3.61 avg rating — 49 ratings 11. 
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
by:
Jacques Barzun
4.13 avg rating — 4,605 ratings 12. 
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power 4.07 avg rating — 2,780 ratings
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A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
by:
Jonathan Kirsch
3.63 avg rating — 449 ratings 15. 
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by:
Tom Holland
4.17 avg rating — 11,230 ratings 16. 
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
by:
Arthur Herman
4.18 avg rating — 1,794 ratings 17. 
The Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity
by:
Nigel Spivey
3.60 avg rating — 98 ratings 18. 
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
by:
Tonio Andrade
4.23 avg rating — 226 ratings 19. 
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
by:
Sathnam Sanghera
4.09 avg rating — 8,327 ratings 19. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,031 ratings 19. 
The Western European Loess Belt: Agrarian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000
by:
Corrie C. Bakels
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 22. 
Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
by:
Saree Makdisi
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 23. 
Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800
by:
Peter Thorsheim
3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World 3.56 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy from 1453 to the Present
by:
Brendan Simms
3.95 avg rating — 746 ratings 
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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by:
Shashi Tharoor
4.17 avg rating — 12,326 ratings 27. 
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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Berkeley Series in British Studies Book 9)
by:
James Vernon
3.58 avg rating — 52 ratings 31. 
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
by:
Ian Morris
4.11 avg rating — 5,828 ratings 31. 
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by:
Ian Morris
3.69 avg rating — 324 ratings 
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
by:
Seb Falk
3.67 avg rating — 1,455 ratings 35. 
Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not
by:
Jared Rubin
4.31 avg rating — 100 ratings 35. 
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
by:
Toby Green
4.03 avg rating — 395 ratings 35. 
Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance 3.72 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
by:
Charles Freeman
4.06 avg rating — 2,175 ratings 39. 
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
by:
Bernard Bailyn
3.95 avg rating — 177 ratings 41. 
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought 4.24 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
by:
Henry Nash Smith
3.72 avg rating — 300 ratings 43. 
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
by:
J.C. Sharman
3.66 avg rating — 256 ratings 43. 
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by:
Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating — 11,658 ratings 45. 
The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.06 avg rating — 817 ratings 
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
by:
Alfred W. Crosby
3.98 avg rating — 1,834 ratings 
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The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece—and Western Civilization
by:
Barry S. Strauss
4.09 avg rating — 1,116 ratings 50. 
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by:
Kenneth Pomeranz
3.69 avg rating — 962 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
by:
Thomas Cahill
3.81 avg rating — 46,387 ratings 52. 
Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic
by:
Nevill Drury
3.80 avg rating — 44 ratings 54. 
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
by:
Arthur Herman
3.94 avg rating — 6,616 ratings 54. 
Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West
by:
Tonio Andrade
4.11 avg rating — 194 ratings 54. 
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L'invention De L'homme Moderne: Sensibilites, Moeurs Et Comportements Collectifs Sous L'ancien Regime 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe 3.83 avg rating — 2,068 ratings
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Homeplace: The Social Use and Meaning of the Folk Dwelling in Southwestern North Carolina 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy 3.80 avg rating — 389 ratings
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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
by:
Susan Dackerman
4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings 64. 
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by:
David W. Anthony
3.99 avg rating — 3,774 ratings 64. 
Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community 3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 2: The Age of Reformation
by:
Quentin Skinner
4.29 avg rating — 139 ratings 
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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 1: The Renaissance
by:
Quentin Skinner
4.43 avg rating — 261 ratings 68. 
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age 3.76 avg rating — 1,931 ratings
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The Destiny of Modern Societies: The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society
by:
Milan Zafirovski
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 70. 
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization
by:
J.C. McKeown
3.68 avg rating — 101 ratings 
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
by:
Mary Prince
3.81 avg rating — 3,299 ratings 77. 
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by:
Wallace Stegner
4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings 
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Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
by:
David Denby
3.86 avg rating — 1,077 ratings 79. 
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music 4.20 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
by:
Jean Manco
3.95 avg rating — 714 ratings 82. 
Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom
by:
Norman Cohn
4.05 avg rating — 295 ratings 83. 
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
by:
Judith Nies
3.51 avg rating — 181 ratings 84. 
How to Read the American West: A Field Guide (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by:
William Wyckoff
4.19 avg rating — 36 ratings 85. 
Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
by:
Michael Allen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
by:
Tara Zahra
3.86 avg rating — 325 ratings 88. 
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
by:
James R. Green
4.33 avg rating — 569 ratings 89. 
From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina
by:
H. Tyler Blethen
3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings 90. 
Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains
by:
George Ellison
3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings 90. 
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Oh What a Slaughter: Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
by:
Larry McMurtry
3.49 avg rating — 711 ratings 93. 
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The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
by:
David Roberts
3.88 avg rating — 467 ratings 96. 
Entertaining Women: Actresses, Dancers, and Singers in the Old West
by:
Chris Enss
3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings 96. 
Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000
by:
Barry Cunliffe
4.12 avg rating — 632 ratings 
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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1 (2) (The West Point History of Warfare Series) 4.61 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
by:
John Freely
3.61 avg rating — 302 ratings