Ten books that most shaped your view of history

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Ten books that most shaped your view of history
1
Diplomacy
af Henry Kissinger
2,331 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
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2
Moralens oprindelse : et stridsskrift
af Friedrich Nietzsche
2,985 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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3
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
af Jared M. Diamond
11,996 medlemmer
179 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
aulsmith, puffintopia
4
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit
af Alexandre Kojève
582 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
pomonomo2003, puffintopia
5
Fyrsten
af Niccolò Machiavelli
23,013 medlemmer
247 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
2 Members
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6
Jeg, Claudius : af Tiberius Claudius' selvbiografi, romernes kejser, født 10 f. Kr. myrdet og ophøjet til gud 54 e. Kr.
af Robert Graves
9,000 medlemmer
164 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
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7
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
af Paul Kennedy
2,847 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
4
Member
Bretzky1
8
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
af Anna Comnena
801 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Making of the English Landscape
af W. G. Hoskins
560 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
10
Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations
af Brian M. Fagan
72 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
Member
aulsmith
Forklaringer
aulsmith: It's not a book, it's an audio course, but Fagan completely changed my ideas about how civilization came about.
11
The Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure and Social Systems
af Emmanuel Todd
24 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
5
Member
pomonomo2003
12
Dantes guddommelige komedie
af Dante Alighieri
21,117 medlemmer
181 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
13
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
af Ron Rosenbaum
690 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
4
Member
aulsmith
14
The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
af Niall Ferguson
523 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
Bretzky1
15
The Pursuit of History
af John Tosh
477 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
Member
TheoClarke
16
The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum
af Carl Schmitt
118 medlemmer
½ 4.3
Member
pomonomo2003
17
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
af Christopher R. Browning
2,238 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
af James J. O'Donnell
362 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
aulsmith
19
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
af G. N. Garmonsway
314 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
TheoClarke
20
The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?
af Andre Gunder Frank
36 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
pomonomo2003
21
Medieval People
af Eileen Power
1,292 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
Member
aulsmith
22
War in Human Civilization
af Azar Gat
193 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
23
The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
af George Mosse
97 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
24
Capital, Expectations, and the Market Process: Essays on the Theory of the Market Econony (Studies in Economic Theory)
af Ludwig M. Lachmann
25 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.1
Member
pomonomo2003
25
The Victoria History of the County of Suffolk. Edited by William Page
af William Page
1 medlem
Member
TheoClarke
26
The Anatomy of Revolution
af Crane Brinton
544 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
27
Theory of Religion
af Georges Bataille
363 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
pomonomo2003
28
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire {unabridged - Womersley 3v.}
af Edward Gibbon
203 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.8
Member
Bretzky1
29
Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
af Ezra Pound
80 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
30
History and the reader
af G.M. Trevelyan
17 medlemmer
5
Member
TheoClarke
31
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
af Barbara W. Tuchman
6,981 medlemmer
116 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
af Robert Jay Lifton
829 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
aulsmith
33
Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
af Peter Paret
672 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
34
Aspects of Anglo-Saxon archaeology: Sutton Hoo and other discoveries
af Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford
31 medlemmer
½ 3.5
Member
TheoClarke
35
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some So Poor
af David S. Landes
1,658 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
Bretzky1
36
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
af Joseph A. Schumpeter
1,284 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
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37
The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer
af Brian Bates
350 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
TheoClarke
38
A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People
af Daguan Zhou
32 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life—1500 to the Present
af Jacques Barzun
3,678 medlemmer
36 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
40
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
af Thomas S. Kuhn
7,912 medlemmer
87 anmeldelser
4
Member
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Kilden, bind 1-4
af James A. Michener
3,929 medlemmer
61 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
TheoClarke
42
On Revolution
af Hannah Arendt
1,338 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
Bretzky1
43
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
af Yitzhak Arad
143 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
44
Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire.
af Isaac Asimov
126 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
45
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {revised & updated}
af James W. Loewen
6,240 medlemmer
95 anmeldelser
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
46
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
af Margaret MacMillan
3,141 medlemmer
52 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
47
The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe
af John Toland
566 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
aulsmith
48
Guide to Dartmoor
af William Crossing
27 medlemmer
4
Member
TheoClarke
49
Vejen til verden af i dag
af Jared Diamond
24,486 medlemmer
365 anmeldelser
4.1
50
The Federalist Papers
af Alexander Hamilton
9,679 medlemmer
63 anmeldelser
4.1
51
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
af Conrad Black
481 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
52
We Now Know: rethinking Cold War history
af John Lewis Gaddis
333 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
53
A world transformed
af George H. W. Bush
238 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3
54
George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)
af Douglas Southall Freeman
67 medlemmer
½ 4.7
55
The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
af Scott Douglas Sagan
57 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.7
56
Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
af Benjamin A. Valentino
39 medlemmer
3.9
57
The Origins of Major War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
af Dale C. Copeland
38 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6