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Aberth, John. From the Brink of Apocalypse: Confronting Famine, War, Plague, and Death in the Later Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 2000.

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Aries, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.

Aries, Philippe and Georges Duby, eds. A History of Private Life - IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War. Cambridge, Massacussetts: Belknap Press, 1990.

Ball, Philip. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001.

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Bernstein, William J. The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Binding, Paul. Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas. London: Headline Book Publishing, 2003.

Black, Jeremy. War: Past, Present and Future. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself. New York: Random House, 1983.

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Braudel, Fernand. Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume 1. The Structures of Everyday Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Braudel, Fernand. Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume 2. The Wheels of Commerce. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Braudel, Fernand. Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume 3. The Perspective of the World. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II - Vol. I. New York: Harper Collins, 1972.

Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II - Vol. II. New York: Harper Collins, 1972.

Buchan, James. Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

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Butterfield, Herbert. The Origins of History. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Cadbury, Deborah. Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth Century, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe. New York: Doubleday, 1995.

Cahill, Thomas. Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe. New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

Calder, Nigel. Timescale: An Atlas of the Fourth Dimension. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

Cavallo, Dominick. A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Chanda, Nayan. Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Chandler, Alfred D. and James W. Cortada. A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Chappell, Warren. A Short History of the Printed Word. New York: Dorset Press, 1970.

Chartier, Roger, ed. A History of Private Life - III: Passions of the Renaissance. Cambridge, Massacussetts: Belknap Press, 1989.

Childe, V. Gordon. Man Makes Himself. Bradford-on-Avon, England: Moonraker Press, 1981.

Christian, David. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Cocker, Mark. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples . New York: Grove Press, 1998.

Collins, Randall. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Crane, Nicholas. Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002.

Crane, Nicholas. Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2002.

Cronin, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.

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Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Duby, Georges, ed. A History of Private Life - II: Revelations of the Medieval World. Cambridge, Massacussetts: Belknap Press, 1988.

Edwardes, Michael. East-West Passage: The Travel of Ideas, Arts and Inventions between Asia and the Western World. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1971.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Ekelund, Robert B., Jr.; Robert F. Hebert; and Robert D. Tollison. The Marketplace of Christianity. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.

Eliade, Mircea. The Myth of the Eternal Return. New York: Pantheon Books, 1954.

Fagan, Brian. Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting and the Discovery of the New World. New York: Basic Books, 2006.

Fagan, Brian. Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Fagan, Brian. The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.

Fagan, Brian. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Fagan, Brian. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

Faith, Nicholas. The World the Railways Made. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1990.

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

Ferrill, Arther. The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985.

Fossier, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages I: 350-920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Fossier, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages II: 350-920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Fossier, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages III: 1250-1520. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Fox, Stephen. Transatlantic: Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Fromkin, David. The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Gay, Peter. Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.

Gilpin, Robert. France in the Age of the Scientific State. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968.

Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics. London: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Gimpel, Jean. The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1976.

Girouard, Mark. Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1985.

Gordon, Stewart. When Asia Was the World . Philadephia, Pennsylvania: Da Capo Press, 2008.

Grant, Michael. The Rise of the Greeks. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.

Grant, Michael. The Visible Past: Greek and Roman History from Archaeology 1960-1990. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990.

Groebner, Valentin. Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Zone Books, 2007.

Hale, John. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. New York: Atheneum, 1994.

Hartwell, R. M. The Industrial Revolution and Economic Growth. London: Methuen, 1971.

Hawkes, Jacquetta. The First Civilizations: Life in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Egypt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

Hawthorn, Geoffrey. Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Heer, Friedrich. Great Documents of the World: Milestones of Human Thought. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977.

Heer, Friedrich. The Medieval World: Europe 1100 to 1350. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963.

Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

Hiorns, Frederick R. Town-Building in History: An Outline Review of Conditions, Influences, Ideas, and Methods Affecting 'Planned' Towns Through Five Thousand Years. London: George G. Harrap, 1956.

Hobhouse, Henry. Forces of Change: An Unorthodox View of History. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990.

 

Hobson, John A. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1930.

Hohenberg, Paul M. and Lynn Hollen Lees. The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Holberton, Paul. The World of Architecture. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1988.

Hugo-Brunt, Michael. The History of City Planning: A Survey. Montreal: Harvest House, 1972.

Jackson, Donald. The Story of Writing. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1981.

Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Jay, Peter. Road to Riches or The Wealth of Man. (British Edition) London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.

Jay, Peter. The Wealth of Man. (American Edition) New York: Public Affairs, 2000.

Johnson, Paul. The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Jones, Gareth Stedman. An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Jordan, William Chester. Europe in the High Middle Ages. New York: Viking, 2003.

Kamen, Henry. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power 1492-1763. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Keegan, John. A History of Warfare. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

Kennedy, Hugh. The Great Arab Conquests. New York: Da Capo Press, 2007.

Kennedy, Hugh. When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005.

Kennedy, Paul. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000. New York: Random House, 1987.

Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Kidder, David S. and Noah D. Oppenheim. The Intellectual Devotional. New York: Rodale, 2006.

Kostof, Spiro. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History. Boston, Massachusetts: Bulfinch Press, 1991.

Krondl, Michael. The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.

Levi, Peter. Atlas of the Greek World. New York: Facts On File, 1980.

Levine, David. At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Ley, Willy. Dawn of Zoology. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Lienhard, John H. Inventing Modern: Growing Up With X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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McNeill, J.R. and William H. McNeill. The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

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Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Petersen, William. Malthus. London: Heinemann, 1979.

Petroski, Henry. Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Porter, Roy. The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Potts, Rick. Humanity's Descent: The Consequences of Ecological Instability. New York: William Morrow, 1996.

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