Sara's votes on the list Best History Books

Listopia > Sara's votes on the list Best History Books (20 Books)

1	The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology by Greg Dening 4.59 avg rating — 22 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg 4.01 avg rating — 6,958 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel 4.19 avg rating — 2,931 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Gothic Idol: Ideology and Image-Making in Medieval Art by Michael Camille 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth by Elizabeth Wayland Barber 4.21 avg rating — 426 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Alabi's World by Richard Price (Goodreads Author) 3.28 avg rating — 29 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault 4.12 avg rating — 9,577 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Death in England: An Illustrated History by Clare Gittings 3.80 avg rating — 35 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault 4.24 avg rating — 36,719 ratings Sara rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy 4.26 avg rating — 1,264 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 3.97 avg rating — 9,270 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Gothic Art: Glorious Visions by Michael Camille 3.86 avg rating — 224 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum 4.20 avg rating — 875 ratings Sara rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400–1600 by Mary Baine Campbell 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France by Natalie Zemon Davis 3.84 avg rating — 44 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of a New World, with a new Preface by Stephen Greenblatt 3.75 avg rating — 229 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 118,262 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille 4.13 avg rating — 300 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children since the Thirteenth Century by Jean-Claude Schmitt 3.78 avg rating — 103 ratings Sara rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	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 — 46,753 ratings Sara rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars