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History Today's The Best History Books 2018
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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David W. Blight
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Disciplining the Empire: Politics, Governance, and the Rise of the British Navy
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
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Serhii Plokhy
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Der Dreißigjährige Krieg: Zeugnisse vom Leben mit Gewalt
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Hans Medick
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Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor
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Iran: A Modern History
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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
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Kassia St. Clair
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Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
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Building Anglo-Saxon England
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The Odyssey
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Homer
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Why Does Michelangelo Matter?: A Historian's Questions about the Visual Arts
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The Qur'an and the Bible: Text and Commentary
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The history of emotions
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The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton: Culture and Industry in Eighteenth-Century Birmingham
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Russia's Turn to Persia: Orientalism in Diplomacy and Intelligence
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Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
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Edward Wilson-Lee
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Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist. Arsonist. Suffragette.
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