History

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
The World of Yesterday
The World of Yesterday
  • Stefan Zweig
4.710 reads
#3
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory
  • Paul Fussell
3.65 reads
#4
Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
  • Frank Dikötter
4.46 reads
#5
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The Tragedy of Liberation

The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
  • Frank Dikötter
4.256 reads
#6
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
  • Frank Dikötter
2.51 read
#7
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
  • Frank Dikötter
4.334 reads
#8
A People's Tragedy
A People's Tragedy
  • Orlando Figes
4.385 reads
#9
The Anatomy of Fascism
The Anatomy of Fascism
  • Robert O. Paxton
3.9219 reads
#10
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
  • R.H. Tawney
00 reads
#11
Our Oriental Heritage
Our Oriental Heritage
  • Will Durant
01 read
#12
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Origins of Totalitarianism
  • Hannah Arendt
4.2829 reads
#13
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism
  • Benedict Anderson
4.226 reads
#14
The History of Ancient Egypt
The History of Ancient Egypt
  • Bob Brier
54 reads
#15
Political Order and Political Decay
Political Order and Political Decay
  • Francis Fukuyama
4.1710 reads
#16
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
  • Francis Fukuyama
3.7334 reads
#17
The World Turned Upside Down
The World Turned Upside Down
  • Yang Jisheng
00 reads
#18
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
  • Yang Jisheng
  • Stacy Mosher (Translator)
  • Guo Jian (Translator)
01 read
#19
Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
  • Tsering Woeser
00 reads
#20
The Dark Side of Democracy
The Dark Side of Democracy
  • Michael Mann
01 read
#21
Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards
Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards
  • Afsaneh Najmabadi
00 reads
#22
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Remnants of Auschwitz

Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
  • Giorgio Agamben
4.53 reads
#23
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The Sociology of Philosophies

The Sociology of Philosophies
  • Randall Collins
00 reads
#24
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
  • Tim Mackintosh-Smith
51 read
#25
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
  • Jared Diamond
3.89399 reads
#26
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The Devil's Horsemen

The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europe
  • James Chambers
41 read
#27
Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
Matters of Testimony: Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz
  • Nicholas Chare
  • Dominic Williams
00 reads
#28
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Eyewitness Auschwitz

Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers
  • Filip Müller
00 reads
#29
Hiroshima
Hiroshima
  • John Hersey
4.13106 reads
#30
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
  • Harald Jähner
  • Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
48 reads
#31
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Hiroshima's Shadow

Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History & the Smithsonian Controversy
  • Kai Bird
  • Lawrence Lifschultz
00 reads
#32
The Good War
The Good War
  • Studs Terkel
4.337 reads
#33
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity
  • Michael A. Cook
00 reads
#34
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
  • Fareed Zakaria
4.253 reads