Best General History Books

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Vejen til verden af i dag
af Jared Diamond
24,473 medlemmer
365 anmeldelser
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Krigens historie
af John Keegan
2,421 medlemmer
20 anmeldelser
3.9
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
af Stephen E. Ambrose
7,293 medlemmer
74 anmeldelser
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Rensslaer, AnnaClaire, HxBuff, John_Vaughan
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1776
af David McCullough
12,801 medlemmer
242 anmeldelser
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
af Paul Kennedy
2,842 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
af Simon Winchester
3,737 medlemmer
79 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
af Steven Pinker
2,746 medlemmer
70 anmeldelser
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Maps of Time : An Introduction to Big History
af David Christian
595 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
af Brian Fagan
264 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
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A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
af Tony Horwitz
1,817 medlemmer
53 anmeldelser
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Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
af Janet L. Abu-Lughod
373 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3.9
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The Tribes of Britain
af David Miles
254 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.6
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
af Jared M. Diamond
11,991 medlemmer
179 anmeldelser
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870
af Hugh Thomas
762 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.8
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Mellemøstens historie i de seneste 2000 år
af Bernard Lewis
1,562 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
af Jack Weatherford
3,101 medlemmer
87 anmeldelser
4
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
af Steven Johnson
4,293 medlemmer
190 anmeldelser
4
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The Waning of the Middle Ages
af Johan Huizinga
3,210 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
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De arabiske folks historie
af Albert Hourani
3,192 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
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Stjernestunder
af Stefan Zweig
566 medlemmer
14 anmeldelser
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Let the Sea Make a Noise...: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to Macarthur
af Walter A. McDougall
200 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
af Leonard L. Richards
145 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
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Kodebogen : videnskaben om hemmelige budskaber - fra oldtidens Ægypten til kvantekryptering
af Simon Singh
5,859 medlemmer
75 anmeldelser
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lewbs
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A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776
af Simon Schama
1,355 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4
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John_Vaughan
25
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
af William H. McNeill
697 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.2
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26
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
af John Kelly
1,614 medlemmer
59 anmeldelser
3.9
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AnnaClaire
27
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
af Paul Johnson
1,111 medlemmer
16 anmeldelser
4.1
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Årtusindet : de seneste tusind års historie
af Felipe Fernández-Armesto
832 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
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The Anatomy of Revolution
af Crane Brinton
544 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
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The Lessons of History
af Will Durant
1,687 medlemmer
31 anmeldelser
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Civilisationernes sammenstød
af Samuel P. Huntington
3,266 medlemmer
35 anmeldelser
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Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
af Peter Ackroyd
1,220 medlemmer
28 anmeldelser
3.9
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AnnaClaire
33
Plagues and Peoples
af William H. McNeill
1,833 medlemmer
20 anmeldelser
4
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World
af Daniel Boorstin
1,158 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
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John_Vaughan
35
Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
af Antonia Fraser
1,079 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
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The Ascent of Man
af Jacob Bronowski
2,543 medlemmer
18 anmeldelser
4.2
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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
af William H. McNeill
468 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.2
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Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
af Sara M. Evans
452 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3.8
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The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
af Daniel R. Headrick
208 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
af Winston S. Churchill
1,467 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
4.2
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The Days of the French Revolution
af Christopher Hibbert
745 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
3.8
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
af Tom Standage
2,615 medlemmer
86 anmeldelser
3.8
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The Incas; the royal commentaries of the Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega, 1539-1616
af Garcilaso de la Vega
248 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
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The Great Republic: A History of America
af Winston S. Churchill
260 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
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The English: A Portrait of a People
af Jeremy Paxman
1,507 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
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Om Arternes Oprindelse ved Kralitetsvalg eller ved de heldigst etillede Formen Sejr i Hampen for Tilvrerelsen
af Charles Darwin
13,968 medlemmer
116 anmeldelser
4.1
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Selvbiografi
af Benjamin Franklin
7,145 medlemmer
108 anmeldelser
3.8
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
af Thomas L. Friedman
12,887 medlemmer
167 anmeldelser
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
af Lewis Mumford
1,371 medlemmer
8 anmeldelser
4.2
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Mankind and Mother Earth: A Narrative History of the World
af Arnold Joseph Toynbee
178 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8