Best books in History
The daily bread of the catalog's most curious thinkers. Patrick Collison, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky dominate this category, and the titles they chose reveal that understanding the present always starts with understanding what came before.
Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power
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The Age of Terror
Strobe Talbott
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Spain in Our Hearts
Adam Hochschild
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Moorish Spain
Richard Fletcher
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Expulsion of the Palestinians
Nur Masalha
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The fever
Sonia Shah
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Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
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Freedom's forge
Arthur Herman
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The Making of Europe
Robert Bartlett
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The Making of a Tropical Disease
Randall M. Packard
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The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951
Ilan Pappé
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The geography of madness
Frank Bures
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The glory of the trenches
Coningsby Dawson
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Great Illusion
Norman Angell
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Great Revolt
Salena Zito
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The Spanish Civil War
Hugh Thomas
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C. Julii Caesaris Commentarii de bello Gallico
Julius Caesar
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Mao Tse-Tung on Guerrilla Warfare (Books That Matter)
Mao Tse-Tung
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Washington's war on Nicaragua
Holly Sklar
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The Coldest War
James Brady
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The uncensored war
Daniel C. Hallin
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History Has Begun
Bruno Macaes
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The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
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The Oxford History of Britain
Peter Salway
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