Genre search:History

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Roman History, Roman Empire, Romulus, Remus, Bibliography, Julius Caesar
Collection
Gifts

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paper Book, 1999
Tags
History, Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Greg

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, History, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Gus

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback, 2018
Tags
History, Agricultural Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Economics, Industrial Revolution, Religion
Collection
Gifts

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan
Paperback, 2017
Tags
Central Asia and Silk Road, Trade, History
Collection
Don

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Environmentalism, Socioeconomics
Collections
Gus, In Storage

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Environmentalism, Socioeconomics, Easter Island, Anasazi, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Vikings, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Greenland — 1 more, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, North American Natives, South America, South American Natives, Indigenous, Pre-Columbian
Collection
Don

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, South America, North America, North American Natives, South American Natives, Indigenous, Pre-Columbian
Collection
Gifts

The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America

by Erik Larson
Paper Book, 2003
Tags
Occult Crime, Parliament of the World's Religions, Serial Murder
Collection
Don

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

by Ian Mortimer
Hardcover, 2009
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, History, England, Great Britain, British Isles, Medieval, Guidebook
Collection
Anna

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Ireland, Dark and Middle Ages, British Isles, Eire, History, Medieval, Irish Civilization, Irish Monks, Scriptoria, Transmission of Texts, Manuscripts — 1 more, Monastic Libraries
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)

by Thomas Cahill
Paperback, 1996
Tags
Ireland, British Isles, Eire, Irish History, History, Medieval, Irish Civilization
Collection
Gifts

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History)

by Eric H. Cline
Paperback, 2015
Tags
Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent, Late Bronze Age, Sea Peoples, Egypt, Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, Babylon
Collection
Don

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback, 2012
Tags
Graeco-Roman Philosophy, Graeco-Roman World, Lucretius, Renaissance
Collection
Gifts

The library book

by Susan Orlean
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries
Collection
Gifts

The Library Book

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2019
Tags
Libraries, Destruction of Libraries, History of Libraries, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

Cleopatra: A Life

by Stacy Schiff
Paperback, 2011
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 8 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies, In Storage
Collections
Whealton, In Storage

Cleopatra: a life

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2010
Tags
Cleopatra, Pharaohs and Governance, Egypt, Egyptian History, Women in History, Biographies, Alexandria, Alexander the Great, Rome, Plutarch, Julius Caesar — 7 more, Mark Antony, Cicero, Isis, Octavian, Pompey, Ptolemies, Bibliographies
Collection
Gifts

The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

by Seb Falk
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Science and Technology, Medieval Science, Planetary Motions, Clock Mechamisms, Astrolabe, Epicycles, Astronomy
Collection
Don

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

by Jacques Barzun
Paperback, 2001
Tags
History, Western Civilization
Collection
Gifts

The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

by Ross King
Paperback, 2022
Tags
Libraries, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Hermetica, Plato, Cosmo de Medici, Marsilio Ficino, Florence
Collection
Don

The library : a fragile history

by Andrew Pettegree
Hardcover, 2021
Tags
Libraries, Library History
Collection
Don

The histories

by Herodotus.
Paper Book, 1972
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Classics, Herodotus, Solon, Greece, Delphi, Oracles, Babylon, Egypt, Persia
Collection
Don

The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors

by Dan Jones
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
Knights Templar, History, Crusades
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

The Templars : the rise and spectacular fall of God's holy warriors

by Dan Jones
Paper Book, 2017
Tags
Knights Templar, History, Crusades
Collection
Don

Jerusalem: The Biography

by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
Jerusalem and the Temple, Jerusalem, Crusades, Knights Templar
Collection
Don

The darkening age : the Christian destruction of the classical world

by Catherine Nixey
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Pagans and Christians, Late Antiquity, Graeco-Roman World, Temples, Serapeum, Hypatia, Destruction, Library of Alexandria
Collection
Don

Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world

by Irene Vallejo Moreu
Paper Book, 2022
Tags
Libraries, Papyrus, Writing, Egypt, Greece, Rome
Collection
Don

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne
Paperback, 2011
Tags
North America, Comanches, Quanah Parker, Native Americans, Captivity, American West, Texas, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

by Alison Weir
Paperback, 1999 First Edition
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Plantagenets, Angevin Empire, Women's History, Crusades, Henry II
Collection
Anna

The witches : Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
Salem Witch Trials, Witchcraft, Salem Witches, Salem Village
Collection
Anna

Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"

by Zora Neale Hurston
Paper Book, 2018
Tags
Afro-Diasporic Religions, Africa, Slavery, Slave Trade, Africatown
Collection
Don

In the shadow of the sword : the birth of Islam and the rise of the global Arab empire

by Tom Holland
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
Revisionist Islamic Studies, Islam, Qur'an, Muhammad, Harran, Sabians
Collection
Don

In the shadow of the sword : the birth of Islam and the rise of the global Arab empire

by Tom Holland
Paper Book, 2013
Tags
Sabians, Islam, Harran, Revisionist Islamic Studies
Collection
Don

The map of knowledge : how classical ideas were lost and found : a history in seven cities

by Violet Moller
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
Libraries, Alexandria, Egypt, Baghdad, Cordoba, Toledo, Salerno, Palermo, Venice, Euclid, Elements — 4 more, Ptolemy, Almagest, Galen, Medicine
Collection
Don

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

by Reza Aslan
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
Christianity, Historical Jesus, Bibliography, Zealots
Collection
Gifts

The Twelve Caesars: An Illustrated Edition

by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Paperback, 1982
Tags
Classics, Suetonius, History, Roman, Imperial Rome
Collection
Anna

This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust
Paper Book, 2008
Tags
Death and Dying, Folklore, Funerary Rituals, American Civil War, Sanitary Commissions
Collection
Don

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

by Tom Holland
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Graeco-Roman World, Persia, Athens, Sparta, Babylon, Persian Wars
Collection
Gifts

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

by Norman F. Cantor
Hardcover, 2001
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Plague, Black Death, Anti-Semitism, Bibliographies
Collection
Gifts

Messalina - empress, adulteress, libertine: the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world

by Honor Cargill
Paper Book, 2023
Tags
Women in Graeco-Roman World, Messalina, Rome, Claudius, Biographies, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Anna

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1976
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, Wounded Knee, American History
Collection
Glenn

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee-an Indian History of the American West

by Dee Brown
Paperback, 1972
Tags
North America, Indigenous Peoples, Wounded Knee, American History
Collections
Gifts, In Storage

The Coming of the Third Reich

by Richard J. Evans
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
Nazi Occultism, Thule Society
Collection
Gifts

A History of God

by Karen Armstrong
Hardcover, 1994
Tags
Comparative and Western Religion, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mysticism
Collection
Gifts

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

by John Kelly
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Dark and Middle Ages, Plague, Black Death, Anti-Semitism
Collection
Gifts

Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge

by Richard Ovenden Autore
Hardcover, 2020
Tags
Libraries, Burning Books, Destruction of Archives, Warfare, Alexandria, Sarajevo, Stasi, Milton
Collection
Don

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Galileo

The Gallic War: a new translation

by Julius Caesar
Paperback, 1999
Tags
Classics, Caesar, Gaul, Bibliography, Glossary, Chronology
Collection
Gifts
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