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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
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Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
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Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800
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Heyday: Britain and the birth of the modern world
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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Berkeley Series in British Studies Book 9)
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization
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Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
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Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
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The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe
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Europe Since Napoleon
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Innocent III: Leader of Europe, 1198-1216
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The Muslim Discovery of Europe
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
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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
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created our World & Everything in It
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L'invention De L'homme Moderne: Sensibilites, Moeurs Et Comportements Collectifs Sous L'ancien Regime
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The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960
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Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe
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A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 2: The Age of Reformation
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The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 1: The Renaissance
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The Destiny of Modern Societies: The Calvinist Predestination of a New Society
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
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The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
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In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past
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The Letter and the Cosmos: How the Alphabet Has Shaped the Western View of the World
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
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Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
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Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
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Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present
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Why We're All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
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Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
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The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
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The Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity
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The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History
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Know Thyself: Western Identity from Classical Greece to the Renaissance
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
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Europe: A Natural History
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Europe in Flames: The Crisis of the Thirty Years War
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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
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Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
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The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
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Eastern Europe!: Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
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Europe Between the Oceans: Themes and Variations, 9000 BC - AD 1000
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Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
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The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
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The Edge of the World
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A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?
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How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns & the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times
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Europe and the People Without History
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Being Modern: The Cultural Impact of Science in the Early Twentieth Century
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Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom
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Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
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The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View
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The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
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Marathon: The Battle that Changed Western Civilization
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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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
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The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World
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Descartes: The Life and Times of a Genius
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
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Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)
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How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
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Why the Ancient Greeks Matter: The Problematic Miracle that was Greece
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
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The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christian Faith
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The German Invention of Race
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The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon: Religious Solutions from Columbus to Columbus to Joseph Smith
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