Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) – Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

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Philosophy and the Modern World
Philosophy and the Modern World 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Mysticism and Philosophy
Mysticism and Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Freedom in the Ancient World
Freedom in the Ancient World 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 4.11 avg rating — 3,515 ratings
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Race: The History of an Idea in America
Race: The History of an Idea in America 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings
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O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years
O Strange New World: American Culture, The Formative Years 3.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin
The Career of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From the German Enlightenment to the Age of Darwin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Children of Crisis, Volume 1: A Study of Courage and Fear
Children of Crisis, Volume 1: A Study of Courage and Fear 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
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White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 4.21 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
by: Peter Gay
3.73 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Love and Will
Love and Will
by: Rollo May
4.13 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
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American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1650-1850
American Convictions: Cycles of Public Thought, 1650-1850 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Theory of Justice
A Theory of Justice 3.95 avg rating — 13,399 ratings
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Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and Upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them
Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery and Upon Certain Proposals to Eliminate Them 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Venice: A Maritime Republic
Venice: A Maritime Republic 4.02 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Venture of Islam, Vol 1: The Classical Age of Islam
The Venture of Islam, Vol 1: The Classical Age of Islam 4.22 avg rating — 519 ratings
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The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory 4.13 avg rating — 6,077 ratings
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Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 4.27 avg rating — 381 ratings
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The rise of American philosophy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930
The rise of American philosophy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1860-1930 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans (Complete in One Volume)
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans (Complete in One Volume) 4.12 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Utopian Thought in the Western World
Utopian Thought in the Western World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History
White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History 3.88 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Philosophical Explanations
Philosophical Explanations 3.87 avg rating — 255 ratings
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The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture
Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modern Jewish Culture 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation
The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The World of Thought in Ancient China
The World of Thought in Ancient China really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 3.98 avg rating — 1,834 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 3.91 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity
The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity 4.27 avg rating — 418 ratings
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America's Rome. COMPLETE SET
America's Rome. COMPLETE SET 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 5,313 ratings
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Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States 3.78 avg rating — 106 ratings
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 4.38 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Lectures on the History of Religions, No. 15)
The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Lectures on the History of Religions, No. 15) 4.22 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript
Codex Telleriano-Remensis: Ritual, Divination, and History in a Pictorial Aztec Manuscript 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity 3.94 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
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A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany
A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Holocaust in American Life
The Holocaust in American Life 3.95 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of Modern Natural History
The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of Modern Natural History 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France
The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany 4.04 avg rating — 231 ratings
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World
American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World 3.81 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World 4.23 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning 4.20 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy 3.77 avg rating — 167 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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Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse 3.92 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis 4.11 avg rating — 9,933 ratings
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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition 4.30 avg rating — 412 ratings
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The Parthenon Enigma
The Parthenon Enigma 4.09 avg rating — 399 ratings
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The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe 3.60 avg rating — 151 ratings
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America 4.17 avg rating — 781 ratings
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Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 4.34 avg rating — 361 ratings
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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America 4.01 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom 3.86 avg rating — 222 ratings
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War 4.17 avg rating — 299 ratings
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 3.93 avg rating — 7,988 ratings