Selected Bibliography

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I read mainly in English, including English translations of Arabic and ancient Greek. For secondary sources I prefer authors who have done what I have not: dedicated their professional lives to a narrow field of study.

Abraham, Richard, Rosa Luxemburg

Abboushi, W F, The Unmaking of Palestine

Abu-Lughod, Janet L, Before European Hegemony: a World System AD 1250-1350

Aburish, Said K, Arafat: from Defender to Dictator

Ackerknecht, Edwin H, A Short History of Medicine

Africa, Thomas W, The Immense Majesty

Albee, Sarah, Poop Happened: A History of the World from the Bottom Up.

Anderson, M S, The War of Austrian Succession, 1740-1748

Appleby, Joyce, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

Appleby, Joyce, The Relentless Revolution: a History of Capitalism

Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by John H McMahon

Aristotle, The Politics, translated by Sir Ernest Barker

Armajani, Yahya, Middle East, Past and Present

Aruri, Naseer, editor, Occuption: Israel over Palestine, Second Edition

Aslan, Reza, Zealot, the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Asminov, Isaac, Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery

 

Babinger, Franz, Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time

Baffaclough, Geoffrey, The Crucible of Europe: the Ninth and Tenth  Centuries in European History

Bailey, Helen Miller and Nasatir, Abraham P, Latin America: the Development of its Civilization

Bairoch, Paul, Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxs

Baker, Nicholson, Human Smoke

Bark, Dennis L and Gress, David R, A History of West Germany: From Shadow to Substance, 1945-63, Volume 1

Barker, Sir Ernest, From Alexander to Constantine

Basham, AL, Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism

Bauer, Wolfgang, China and the Search for Happiness

Beasley, W G, The Rise of Modern Japan

Beatty, Jack, The Lost History of 1914

Beevor, Antony, The Fall of Berlin, 1945

Beinart, Peter, The Icarus Syndrome: a History of American Hubris

Bengtsson, Frans G, The Sword Does not Jest: the Heroic Life of King Charles XII of Sweden

Benko, Stephen, Pagan Rome and the Early Christians

Bennet, Clinton, In Search of Muhammad

Berg, A Scott, Lindbergh

Bergère, Marie-Claire, Sun Yat-sen

Berkin, Carol, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution

Bethell, Leslie, Argentina Since Independence

Biddiss, Michael D, Father of Racist Ideology: the social and political thought of Count Gobideau

Bix, Herbert P, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Black, Jeremy, The Rise of the European Powers, 1679-1793

Blackford, Mansel G, and Kerr, K Austin, Business Enterprise in American History

Blackmon, Douglas A, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Blight and Kornbluh, editors, Politics of Illussion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined

Blinkhorn, Martin, Mussolini and Fascist Italy

Bokenkotter, Thomas, A Concise History of the Catholic Church

Boot, Max, War Made New

Boren, Henry C, Roman Society: A Social, Economic and Cultural History

Botting, Douglas, From the Ruins of the Reich: Germany 1945-1949

Bourne, Frank C, A History of the Romans

Bowle, John, Politics and Opinion in the 19th Century

Boyce, Mary, Zoroastrians, Their Religious Beliefs and Practices

Bradley, Mark Philip, Vietnam at War

Brands, H W , TR: The Last Romantic

Brands, H W, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times

Brentano, Robert editor, The Early Middle Ages, 500 -1000

Breslauer, George W, Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders

Briard, Jacques, The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe

Brinton, Crane, Ideas and Men: the Story of Western Thought

Brown, Elaine, A Taste of Power:  a Black Woman's Story

Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo

Browning, Christopher, The Origins of the Final Solution

Browning, Reed, The War of Austrian Succession

Browning, Robert, Justinian and Theodora

Bukey, Evan Burr, Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938 - 1945

Burchell, Samual C, Age of Progress, 1850-1914

Burki, Javed Shahid, Pakistan: Fifty Years of Nationhood, Third Edition

Burney, Charles, The Ancient Near East

Bury, J B, History of the Later Roman Empire, Vols 1 & 2

Bury, J B, The Invasion of the Barbarians

Butterfield, Herbert, The Origins of History

 

Callahan, Bob, Who Shot JFK: A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories

Calvert, Susan and Peter, Argentina: Political Culture and Instability

Cambridge History of China, Volume 1, 221BC – AD220

Cambridge History of Japan, Volumes 3 and 4

Cameron, Rondo, A Concise Economic History of the World, 2nd Edition

Cary, M and Scullard, HH, A History of Rome, Third Edition

Ceram, C W, Secret of the Hittites: the Discovery of an Ancient Empire,

Chambers, Mortimer, ed The Fall of Rome

Chandler, Lester V, America's Greatest Depression

Cheetham, Nicholas, Keepers of the Keys

Chen, Jian, China's Road to the Korean War

Clark, Christopher, The SleepWalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Chidester, David, Christianity: a Global History

Clough, Shepard B, The Rise and Fall of Civilization

Coblentz, Stanton A, The Long Road to Humanity

Coedès, G The Making of Southeast Asia

Cohen, Curd and Reeve, editors, Readings in Ancient Greek Philosophy: from Thales to Aristotle

Cohen, Stephen F, Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics & History Since 1917

Cohen and Zelnik, editors, the Free Speech Movement, Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s

Connaughton, Richard, MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines

Conquest, Robert, Reflections on a Ravaged Century

Conquest, Robert, The Nation Killers: the Soviet deportation of nationalities

Cotterell, Anton, China, a Concise Cultural History

Cowell, F R, Life in Ancient Rome

Cowles, Virginia, The Kaiser

Cowles, Virginia, The Romanovs

Crane, Conrad C, Bombs, Cities and Civilians

Crawford, Harriet, Sumer and the Sumerians

Crawley, Eduardo, Nicaragua in Perspective

Crier, Catherine, Contempt

Crozier, Andrew J, The Causes of the Second World War

Crowe, Ivan, The Quest for Food

 

Dampier, Sir William, A History of Science and Its Relations with Philosophy and Religion

Deal, William E, Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan

Dale, Tom and Carter, Vernon Gill, Topsoil and Civilization

De Bary, Chan and Watson, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume1

De Bary, William and Tsunoda, Ryusaku, Sources of Japanese Tradition

Dedijer, Vladimir, The Road to Sarajevo

Desborough, Vincent Robin D'Arba, The Greek Dark Ages

Deutschmann, David, editor, The Che Guevara Reader

Dever, William G, What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?

Devine, Robert A, Eisenhower and the Cold War

Dickson, Bruce D, The Dawn of Belief

Diffy, Bailey W, Latin American Civilization , Colonial Period

Dinwiddy, John, Bentham

Diamond, Jared,  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Diamong, Jared, The World until Yesterday

Djilas, Milovan, Conversations with Stalin

Dobbs, Michael, One Minute to Midnight

Dodds, E R, Greeks and the Irrational

Douglas, Emily Taft, Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future,

Dower, John W, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Dozy, Reinhart, Spanish Islam: a History of the Moslems in Spain

Driver, Harold E, Indians of North America

Duffy, James, Portugal in Africa

Dufour, Ronald P, Colonial America

Dunn, Dennis J, Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassardors to Moscow

Durant, Will and Ariel, The Story of Civilization

 

East, John P, The American Conservative Movement: The Philosophical Founders

Eban, Abba, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews

Eban, Abba, My People, 1968

Eban, Abba, Personal Witness: Israel through My Eyes

Eisenman, Robert and Wise, Michael, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered

El-Kikhia, Mansour, Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction

Ellis, Peter Berresford, The Celtic Empire

Emmerson, Charles, 1913: In Search of the World before the Great War

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Americana

English, T J, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob owned Cuba and then Lost it to the Revolution

Errington, P M, The Dawn of Empire: Rome's Rise to World Power

Esolen, Anthony, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization

Evans, Sir R J, The Victorian Age

 

Fage, J D, A History of Africa

Fairbank, John and Goldman, Merle, China: A New History

Farah, Caesar E, Islam: Beliefs and Observations

Faragher, John Mack, A Great and Noble Scheme

Fehrenbach, T R, Fire and Blood: a History of Mexico

Feith, Douglas J, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

Feldman, Noah, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Ferguson, John, The Religions of the Roman Empire

Ferrell, Robert H The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

Fest, Joachim C, Hitler

Finkelstein, Israel, and Silberman, Neil, David and Solmon

Fisk, Robert, The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East

Flannery, Austin, editor, Vatican Council II

Foss, Clive, Juan and Eva Perón

Fox, Robin Lane, The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible

Fox, Robin Lane, The Search of Alexander

Fox, Robin Lane, Pagans and Christians

Frankel, Max, High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Frazier, Donald S, editor, The United States and Mexico at War

Frye, Susan, Elizabeth I

Fuhrmann, Joseph T, Origins of Capitalism in Russia

Fukuyama, Francis, The Origins of Political Order: from Prehistoric Times to the French Revolution

 

Gabriel, Mary, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

Gagliardo, John G, Germany under the Old Regime, 1600-1790

Garnsey, Peter, Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine

General History of Africa, Volume V, UNESCO, BA Ogot, Editor

Gibbon, Edward, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Gilbert, Martin, The First World War: A Complete History

Gilbert, Martin, Israel: a History

Gilbert, Martin, The Second World War, Revised Edition

Gowers, Andrew and Walker, Tony, Behind the Myth: Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Revolution

Graeber, David, Debt: the First 5,000 Years

Graff and Higham, A Military History of China

Grant, Michael, History of Ancient Israel

Grant, Michael, Rise of the Greeks

Grant, Michael, The Fall of Rome, a Reappraisal

Grant, Michael, From Alexander to Cleopatra: the Hellenistic World

Grant, Robert M, Eusebius as Church Historian

Graves, MAR, Revolution, Reaction and the Triumph of Conservatism: English History, 1558 to 1700

Green, Jack P, and Cole, JR, editors, A Companion to the American Revolution

Green, Peter, Ancient Greece: a Concise History

Green, Peter, Armada from Athens

Green, Peter, Alexander to Actium: the Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks

Grieb, Kenneth J, Guatemalan Caudillo: The Regime of Jorge Ubico

Grousset, René, The Rise and Splendor of the Chinese Empire

Guy, John Alexander, Thomas More

Gwyn, David, Idi Amin: death-light of Africa

 

Hadot, Pierre, Plotinus or the Simplicity of Vision, tr Michael Chase

Halberstam, David, The Fifties

Hall, John Whitney, Japan, from Prehistory to Modern Times

Hamerow, Theodore S,The Birth of a New Europe,

Hamilton, Edith, The Greek Way

Hammond, N G L, Alexander the Great

Hammond, N G L, The Genius of Alexander the Great

Han Woo-keun, History of Korea

Harbison, Harris E, The Age of Reformation

Harris, Seymour E, American Economic History

Harper and Brothers Publishers, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D Roosevelt

Hattan, R M, Charles XII of Sweden

Hatzfelt, Jean, The History of Ancient Greece

Hause, Steven and Maltby, William, Western Civilization: a History of European Society

Hayek, F A, The Constitution of Liberty

Haynes, Renée, Philosopher King: the Humanist Pope, Benedict XIV

Hayward, Stephen F, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order

Heiber, Helmut, Goebbels, tr John K Dickinson

Heilbruner, Robert L, The Worldly Philosophers

Herman, Arthur, Gandhi & Churchill, the Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged our Age

Herodotus, The Histories, translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt and revised by AR Burn

Herrin, Judith, The Formation of Christendom

Hellie, Richard, The Economy and Material Culture of Russia 1600-1725

Hibler, Richard W, Life and Learning in Ancient Athens

Hill, Kim Quaile, Democracies in Crisis: Public Policy Responses to the Great Depression

Hobsbawm, E J, The Age of Revolution

Hodges, Gabrielle Ashford, Franco: a Concise Biography

Holborn, Hajo, A History of Modern Germany, 1648-1840

Holbrook, Richard, To End a War

Honderich, Ted, Conservatism

Hooper, Finley, Roman Realities

Huang, Ray, China, a Macro History

Hu-DeHart, Evelyn, Missionaries, Miners and Indians

Hughes, Lindsey, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great

Irving, Clive, Crossroads of Civilization: 3000 Years of Persian History

 

Jacob, Margaret C, The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans

Jahoda, Gustav, Images of Savages: Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture

James, Edward, The Franks

James, Lawrence, Aristocrats

James, Lawrence, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

Jones, JR, Charles II: Royal Politician

Jones, J Sydney, Hitler in Vienna, 1907 to 1913: Clues to the Future

Josephy, Alvin M, The Indian Heritage of America

July, Robert W, A History of the African People, Fourth Edition

 

Kagan, Donald, ed, The End of the Roman Empire

Kagan, Donald, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition

Katz, Friedrich, The Life and Times of Pancho Villa

Katz, Solomon, Decline of Rome and the Rise of Medieaval Europe

Keddie, Nikki R, Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran

Kee, Howard Clark, et al, Christianity: a Social and Cultural History

Kempe, Frederick, Berlin 1961

Kennan, George F, Memoirs, 1925-1950, Volumes 1 & 2

Kennedy, Paul, Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Kennedy, Paul, Preparing for the Twenty-first Century

Kertzer, David I, The Pope and Mussolini

Klein, Naomi, The Shock Doctrine

Khrushchev, Nikita, Khrushchev Remembers

Ki-baik Lee, A New History of Korea

Kiddie, Nikki R, Scholars, Saints and Sufis: Muslim Religious Institutions Since 1500

Kinzer, Stephen, All the Shah's Men

Kinzer, Stephen, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

Kissenger, Henry, Diplomacy

Kissenger, Henry, Years of Upheaval

Knock, Thomas J, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the quest for a New World Order

Koran: First American Version, translated by TB Irving

Kramer, Samuel Noah, History Begins at Sumer

Kramer, Samuel Noah, The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character

Krugman, Paul, The Conscience of a Liberal

Kulke and Rothermund, A History of India, Fourth Edition

Ky, Nguyen Cao, How We Lost the War in Vietnam

Kyemba, Henry, A State of Blood: the inside story of Idi Amin

Kynaston, David, Austerity Britain: 1945-51

 

Lacouture, Jean, Vietnam, between the Two Truces,1965

Lacroix, Paul, France in the Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs and Costumes

Lamb, Harold, Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All Men

Lang, Andrew, Myth, Ritual and Religion

Lange, Ursula, East Germany: What Happened to the Silesians in 1945?

Langer, Herbert, Thirty Years' War

Lapidus, Ira M, A History of Islamic Societies

Lekson, Stephen H, A History of the Ancient Southwest

Lerner, Robert E, The Age of Adversity: the Fourteenth Century

Leuchtenburg, William E, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32

Lewis, Bernard, Islam in History: Ideas, People and Events in the Middle East

Lewis, Bernard,The Emergence of Modern Turkey

Lewis, Bernard, and Buntzie Churchill, Islam: the Religion and the People

Lewis, Gwynne, The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate

Li, Dun J, The Ageless Chinese

Lieu, Samuel, Manichaeism in Mesopotamia and the Roman East

Lieven, Dominic, The Aristocracy in Europe, 1815-1914

Lister, RP, Genghis Khan

Liu, Xinru, Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1-600

Livy, Titus Livius, History of Rome, translated by Aubrey De Selincourt

Livy, Titus Livius, Early History of Rome, Books I through V

Lloyd, Steton, Ancient Turkey: a Traveller's Guide of Anatolia

Lockmiller, David A, Sir William Blackstone

Loew, Cornelius, Myth, Sacred History, and Philosophy

Long, David E, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Lynch, John, Caudillos in Spanish America

 

Machtan, Lothar, The Hidden Hitler

McCullough, David, Truman

MacDonald, Callum A, Korea: The War Before Vietnam

McDougal, Susan, The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk

McKay, Hill and Buckler, A History of Western Society, Volumes I and 2, Fourth Edition

McLynn, Frank, Napoleon: a Biography

McMeekin, Sean, The Russian Origins of the First World War

McNally, Robert E, Luther, Erasmus and the Reformation: a Catholic-Protestant Reappraisal

McNeill, William H and Sedlar, Jean W, eds, Origins of Civilization, Readings in World History, Vol1

McNeill, William H, A World History

McNeill, William H, History of Western Civilization, Sixth Edition

Malcolm, Noel, Kosovo: a short History

Manchester, William, Amercian Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964

Mango, Andrew, The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

Manning, Paul, Hirohito, the War Years

Manshreek, Clyde L, A History of Christianity in the World

Manuel, Frank, Scenes from the End: the Last Days of World War II in Europe

Marks, Robert B, The Origins of the Modern World: a Global and Ecological Narrative

Massie, Robert K, Peter the Great

Matlock, Jack F Jr, Superpower Illusions

Mazzolani, Lidia Storoni, Empire Without End

Mazzolani, Lidia Storoni, The Idea of the City in Roman Thought

Medvedev, Roy, Let History Judge

Meinecke, Friedrich, The German Catastrophe: Reflections and Recollections

Meyer, Milton V, Japan: a Concise History

Mombauer, Annika, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War

Montefiore, Simon, Young Stalin

Morgan, Ted, FDR: A Biography

Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Oxford History of the American People

Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, A History of Japanese Economic Thought

Morris, Debra and Shapiro, Ian, editors, John Dewey, the Political Writings

Morris, Jan, Heaven's Command: an Imperial Progress

Muller, Herbert J, Freedom in the Modern World

Mutibwa, Phares, Uganda Since Independence

 

Nathan, John, Mishima: a biography

Neitzer, Sönke and Welzer, Harald, Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying, 2012

Nester, William R The Great Frontier War

Nettels, Curtis P, The Roots of American Civilization

Nilsson, Martin, Imperial Rome

Nimmo, William F, Behind a Curtain of Silence: Japanese in Soviet Custody, 1945-1956

Norwich, John Julius, A Short History of Byzantium

Norwich, John Julius, Byzantium: the Early Centuries, 1989

 

O'Connel, Robert L, Of Arms and Men

Oliver, Roland and Fage, J D, A Short History of Africa

Olson, Lynne, Troublesome Young Men

Olster, David Michael, The Politics of Usurpation in the Seventh Century: rhetoric and revolt in Byzantium

Oren, Michael B, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Oren, Michael B, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present

Organ, Troy Wilson, Hinduism: Its Historical Development

Ort, LJR, Mani, a Religio-historical description of His Personality (a thesis)

Orwell, George, Homage to Catalonia

Overy, Richard and Kaufman, Peter B, Russia's War: Blood upon the Snow

Owings, Alison, Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich

Oxford History of the Classical World, Chapters 1 through 6

 

Pagden, Anthony, the Enlightement: And Why It Still Matters

Pagden, Anthony, Worlds at War: the 2,500-year struggle between East and West

Pagels, Elaine, Adam, Eve and the Serpant

Pagels, Elaine, The Origin of Satan

Painter, Nell Irvin, The History of White People

Palmer, Alan, Twilight of the Habsburgs: the Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph

Paludan, Ann, Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors: the Reign by Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China

Parker, Geoffrey, The Thirty Years' War

Parkison, Robert, Tormented Warrior

Pennell, C R, Morocco since 1830: a History

Perez, Louis B, The History of Japan

Perret, Geoffrey, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph: the American People 1939-1945

Perret, Geoffrey, Eisenhower

Perret, Geoffrey, Jack: A Life Like No Other

Peters, F E, The Harvest of Hellenism

Petrow, Richard, The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-1945

Phillips, Kevin, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

Phillips, Kevin, The Cousin's War: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo America

Phillips, Patricia, The Prehistory of Europe

Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Pipes, Richard, The Russian Revolution

Pipes, Richard, The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive

Pletsch, Carl, Young Nietzsche

Plotinus, The Enneads, edited and translated by Stephen McKenna

Plotinus, the Simplicity of Vision, translated by Pierre Hadot

Plutarch, Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans

Polybius, translated by Evelyn S Shuckburgh, Histories of Polybius

Polybius, The Histories, translated by W R Paton

Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert

Pomeranz, Kenneth and Topik, Steven, The World that Trade Created

Popkin, Jeremy, D, A Short History of the French Revolution

Porphyry, Against the Christians, edited and translated by R Joseph Hoffman

Posner, Ernst, Archives of the Ancient World

Posner, Gerald, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

Powelson, John, Centuries of Economic Endeavor: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast

Prest, Wilfred, Albion Ascendant: English History, 1660-1815

Pritchard, James B, ed, Ancient Near Eastern Texts

 

Rabe, Stephen G, Eisenhower, the Foreign Policy of Anticommuism, and Latin America

Radzinsky, Edvard, Stalin

Reader, John, Africa

Reagan, Ronald, An American Life: the autobiography

Reichauer, Edwin O, Japan: the Story of a Nation, Fourth Edition

Reitan, Earl A, The Thatcher Revolution

Reiterman, Tim, Raven: the Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People

Reston, James Jr, Warriors of God: Richard the Lionhearted and Saladin in the Third Crusade

Reuth, Ralf Georg, Goebbels

Reynolds, David, Summits: Six Meetings that shaped the Twentieth Century

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V, A History of Russia

Richardson, Louise, What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat

Ridley, Jasper, Mussolini

Rinderle, Walter, and Norling, Bernard, The Nazi Impact on a German Village

Ringgren, Helmer, Religions of the Ancient Near East

Roberts, J A G, Modern China

Roberts, J A G, China: A Complete History

Roberts, Michael, The Age of Liberty: Sweden 1719-1772

Roberts, Tolbert Jennifer, Athens on Trial

Rock, David, Argentina 1516-1982

Rooney, David, Kwame Nkrumah

Rorabaugh, W J, Berkeley at War, the 1960s

Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation, and French Agriculture, 1700-1860

Rostovtzeff, M, Rome

Russell, Bertrand, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

Russell, Bertrand, Why I Am Not a Christian

Russell, Bertrand, The History of Western Philosophy

Russell, Bertrand, Wisdom of the West

Russell, D A, Plutarch

 

Saggs, H W F, Babylonians

Saggs, H W F, Civilization before Greece and Rome

Said, Edward W, Peace and its Discontents

Salvian the Presbyter, On the Government of God

Saunders, J J,The History of Medieval Islam

Sauvage, Leo, Che Guevara

Scalia, Antonin, A Matter of Interpretation

Scheck, Raffael, Alfted von Tirpitz and German Right-Wing Politics, 1914-1930

Scheina, Robert L, Santa Anna: A Curse upon Mexico

Schevill, Ferdinand, The History of the Balkan Peninsula

Scholefield, Alan, The Dark Kingdoms: Impact of White Civilization on Three Great African Monarchies

Scott-Stokes, Henry, The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima

Scullard, H H, A History of the Roman World, 757 to 146 BC, 4th Edition

Scullard, H H, Gracchi to Nero: a History of Rome from 133 BC to AD 68

Sealy, Raphael, The History of the Greek City States

Searle, John R, Mind

Secher, Reynald, A French Genocide: the Vendée

Segal, Alan F, Rebecca's Children

Serge, Victor, Memoirs of a Revolutionary

Service, Robert, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia

Seydewitz, Max, Civil Life in Wartime

Shanks, Edward, Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple

Sharma, L P, A History of Ancient India

Shatter, David, Nero

Shillington, Kevin, History of Africa

Shipman, Pat, The Evolution of Racism

Short, Philip, Mao, a Life

Simpson, Brooks D, America's Civil War

Smith, Edward Ellis, The Young Stalin

Smith, Mark S, The Early History of God

Smith, Michael E, The Aztecs

Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Sokol, Edward D, Tamerlane

Soustelle, Jacques, Daily Life of the Aztecs

Southern, Pat, Augustus

Spaulding, Henry S, Chapters is Social History

Spengler, Joseph J, Indian Economic Thought: A Preface to Its History

Sperber, Jonathan, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851

Starr, Chester G, A History of the Ancient World

Stobard, J C, The Grandeur that was Rome

Stockman, David, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed

Streusand, Douglas, E, The Formation of the Mughal Empire

Swanberg, W A, Luce and His Empire

Sykes, Sir Percy, A History of the Persians, volume 1, third edition

 

Takemae Eiji, The Allied Occupation of Japan

Talbott, John, The War Without a Name

Tauber, Eliezer, The Formation of Modern Syria and Iraq

Taylor, Alan, American Colonies

Taylor, A J P, The Struggle for the Mastery of Europe

Taylor, A J P, Origins of the Second World War

Taylor, A J P, The First World War: an Illustrated History

Taylor, Fred, editor, The Goebbels Diaries: 1939-1941

Temin, Peter, Lessons from the Great Depression

Thaden, Edward, Russia Since 1801

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, The Old Way: a Story of the First People

Thomas, Gordon and Witts, Max, Voyage of the Damned

Thomas, Hugh, The Cuban Revolution

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, translated by Walter Blanco

Tin-bor Hui, Victoria, War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe

Tolan, John, The Last 100 Days

Tolan, John, No Man's Land: 1918 the Last Year of the Great War

Tolan, John, The Rising Sun: the Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire

Toynbee, Arnold, A Study of History

Toynbee, Arnold, Turkey

Trigger, Bruce G, et al, Ancient Egypt, A Social History

Trofimov, Yaroslav, The Seige of Mecca

Tsunoda, Ryusaku and de Bary, William Theodore, The Sources of Japanese Tradition

Tuchman, Barbara, The Guns of August

Tuchman, Barbara, The Proud Tower

Turnbull, Colin M, The Forest People

 

Ulam, Adam, Stalin: The Man and His Era

UNESCO, General History of Africa, Vol V, (16th to 18th Century)

Ungar, Sanford J, Africa

US News staff, Triumph without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War, Random House

 

Varshney, Ashutosh, Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India

Ver Steeg, Clarence L, The Formative Years, 1607-1763

 

Walker, William, et al, A History of the Christian Church

Warraq, Ibn, editor, Quest for the Historical Muhammad

Weber, David J The Spanish Frontier in North America

Weber, Eugen, The Western Tradition

Weibull, Jörgen, Swedish History in Outline

Weigall, Arthur, Nero

Weinberg, Gerhard L, A World at Arms

Weinstein, Allen and Vassiliev, Alexander, The Haunted Wood

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