The Top 24 Books About World History

  1. A Short History of Nearly Everything
  2. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization
  3. Civilization: The West and the Rest
  4. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
  5. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
  6. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
  7. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
  8. The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself
  9. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
  10. The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis
  11. Self-Made Man: Human Evolution from Eden to Extinction
  12. The Decline of the West
  13. A History of Civilizations
  14. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
  15. The Revenge Of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming
  16. Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
  17. The Medium is the Message
  18. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
  19. The Technological Society
  20. The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us about
  21. America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny
  22. The Idea of History
  23. A History of the Middle East
  24. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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