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Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
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3.80 avg rating — 107 ratings
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All Mapped Out: How Maps Shape Us
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A Nation Fermented: Beer, Bavaria, and the Making of Modern Germany
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Republic of China: 1912 to 1949
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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3.86 avg rating — 2,075 ratings
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Heroines of the Tudor World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons
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4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Shadows of Socrates: The Heresy, War, and Treachery Behind the Trial of Socrates
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4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
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3.62 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
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3.70 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland
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3.65 avg rating — 52 ratings
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To The City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul
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4.13 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Shortest History of Economics
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3.93 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
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4.08 avg rating — 132 ratings
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How the World Made the West
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
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Nepal: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Women of Power: Formidable Queens of the Medieval World
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Homo Criminalis: How Crime Organises the World
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3.60 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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4.21 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
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The English Soul: Faith of a Nation
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3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
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3.73 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
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4.24 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Puerto Rico: A National History
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4.29 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
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4.37 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
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Edward I's Neglected Conflict: The Anglo-French War of 1294–1303
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times (The Shortest History Series)
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3.94 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
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3.97 avg rating — 1,581 ratings
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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
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3.77 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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Byzantine Empire
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did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
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4.04 avg rating — 2,548 ratings
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Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
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4.26 avg rating — 1,030 ratings
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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
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4.20 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Thorns, Lust, and Glory: The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
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3.71 avg rating — 518 ratings
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1217: The Battles that Saved England
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4.37 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East
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3.57 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Lost to the Sea: A Journey Round the Edges of Britain and Ireland
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3.98 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
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3.91 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
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3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
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3.68 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
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4.09 avg rating — 241 ratings
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Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges
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3.98 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History
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3.78 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris
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3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
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3.98 avg rating — 842 ratings
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Clay: A Human History
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4.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Money: A Story of Humanity
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4.20 avg rating — 1,774 ratings
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Great Churches of London
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4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Vandal Heaven: Reinterpreting Post-Roman North Africa
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2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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How Muslims Shaped the Americas
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I
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4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Women Behind the Wheel: An Unexpected and Personal History of the Car
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3.58 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
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4.08 avg rating — 151 ratings
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A Gentleman from Japan: An Epic Sea Voyage, an Intriguing Tale of Espionage and the Forgotten Story of the First Japanese Explorer in Tudor England
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3.53 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
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4.53 avg rating — 4,413 ratings
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Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King
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3.84 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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3.88 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
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3.63 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Thistle and The Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor
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4.15 avg rating — 192 ratings
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In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked
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3.63 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
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4.21 avg rating — 914 ratings
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Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
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3.89 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
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3.82 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady
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4.01 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
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3.97 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII
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4.01 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Enemies at the Gate: The City Walls of Ancient Rome
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution
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3.73 avg rating — 112 ratings
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In Search of the Romanovs: A Family’s Quest to Solve One of History’s Most Brutal Crimes
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4.03 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay?: How Traditions From the Past Can Shape Our Future
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3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Finis Britanniae: A Military History of Roman Britain and the Saxon Conquest
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love
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3.74 avg rating — 470 ratings
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A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
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4.36 avg rating — 312 ratings
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Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
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3.65 avg rating — 4,224 ratings
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The Roads To Rome: A Journey into Europe's past
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3.30 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History's Greatest Treasures
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3.88 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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Made in Manchester: a people's history of the city that shaped the modern world
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3.55 avg rating — 139 ratings
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Caesar Versus Pompey: Determining Rome’s Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder
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3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Italy’s Paradise: A History of Tuscany
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4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age
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3.49 avg rating — 1,690 ratings
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Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO
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4.16 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Jerusalem through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades
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4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Cromwell's Spy: From the American Colonies to the English Civil War: The Life of George Downing
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A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
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4.11 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story
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4.21 avg rating — 2,062 ratings
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Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
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4.23 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
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4.06 avg rating — 1,162 ratings
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Women of the Anarchy
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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4.20 avg rating — 7,448 ratings
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Rebel Island: The Incredible Story of Taiwan
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4.09 avg rating — 213 ratings
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
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4.25 avg rating — 391 ratings
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House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
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4.16 avg rating — 788 ratings
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A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19
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2.92 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State
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4.03 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Revolution in Our Lifetime: A Short History of the Black Panther Party
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Patria: A spellbinding history of South America, as heard on hit podcast The Rest Is History
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4.18 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle: Part 1, 1876 - 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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