 | The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William McNeill
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $9.50 A dated, but still valuable, synopsis of the interaction of Western civilization with surrounding cultures. Expectedly Eurocentric, but written with grace and insight by one of the field's luminaries
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $1.30 A fascinating book that approaches human history from a different perspective. Written by a professor of physiology, this book provides a valuable new prespective for future historians.
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 | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon
Buy used from: $0.01 One of the better copies of this classical work. Still perhaps the definitive work on the topic, the book remains a masterpiece of prose.
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 | The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Buy new: $12.75 / Used from: $1.17 Written by the most accomplished American historian of the post war era, this work features a broad perspective and stirring prose
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 | In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans
Buy used from: $3.50 A good addition to modern discourse on the philosophy of history. Addresses the challenge from postmodernism.
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 | The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it by Richard Hofstadter
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.55 Survey of American political ideologies by one of its greatest historians.
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 | The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.85 The Pulitzer prize winning work by the great American historian, Richard Hofstrader. Lovely prose and sharp analysis have ensured that this work age gracefully
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 | The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $3.97 Though it was not written by an historian, this book still managed to have a great impact when it was released.
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 | The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Buy used from: $0.11 Provides a gripping account of successful decision-making in a Cold War crisis.
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 | The White House Years by Henry A. Kissinger
Buy used from: $0.01 Perhaps the best memoirs written by a policy maker. Kissinger's work is very revealing of the process by which the foreign policy of a Great Power is made.
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 | Rise to Globalism by Stephen Ambrose
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $0.01 Good overview by an eminent historian.
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 | The Great Republic: A History of America (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Winston S. Churchill
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.95 Beautifully written work by the 20th century's most memorable statesman.
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 | The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe) by Peter Hopkirk
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.45 Comprehensive work that provides a good account of power politics in the 19th century.
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 | The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
Buy used from: $0.01 Excellent introduction to the watershed event of European history in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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 | The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.40 Another excellent account of the French Revolution.
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