Modern History

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History (1453-2001)

It feels as though I've been in a residency in the past and now see the present in vivid and extreme possibility. There is nothing definite about it. The present is the single child of the past's many sperms. And the single egg in my analogy is the world.

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History (1453-2001)
  1. Guns Germs and Steel - Diamond
  2. History of the Ancient World - Bauer
  3. History of the Medieval World - Bauer
  4. History of the Renaissance World - Bauer
  5. The Venture of Islam I - Hodgson
  6. The Venture of Islam II - Hodgson
  7. The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction - Marshall
  8. The Reformation - MacCulloch
  9. The Modern World System I: 1500s - Wellerstein
  10. The Modern World System II: 1600-1750 - Wellerstein
  11. The Venture of Islam III (Book 5): 1500s-1722 - Hodgson
  12. The Modern World System III: 1730s-1840s - Wellerstein
  13. The Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648 - Bonney
  14. The Thirty Years War - Wedgwood
  15. The pursuit of glory 1648-1815 - Blanning
  16. China a history I - Tanner
  17. Africa biography of a continent - Reader
  18. A history of east Asia - Holcombe
  19. China a history II - Tanner
  20. 1776 - McCullough
  21. The American Revolution: A History - Wood
  22. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848 - Eric Hobsbawm
  23. The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 - Sellers
  24. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era - McPherson
  25. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 - Hobsbawn
  26. Bismarck and the German Empire - Eyck
  27. The Risorgimento and the making of Italy - Beales
  28. The Venture of Islam III (Book 6): 1789-20c - Hodgson
  29. A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present - Meade
  30. The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 - Hobsbawm
  31. The Modern World System IV: 1789-1914 - Wellerstein
  32. Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 - Hourani
  33. The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters - Abu Lughod
  34. The War that ended Peace - Macmillan
  35. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 - Meyer
  36. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Macmillan
  37. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East - Fromkin
  38. Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 - Blom
  39. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 - Hastings
  40. The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence - Meredith
  41. History of the Middle East - Mansfield
  42. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Judt
  43. American Dreams: The United States Since 1945 - Brands
  44. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 - Kotkin
  45. Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II - Pike
  46. The Penguin History of Canada - Bothwell
  47. A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific - Denoon et al
  48. The Age of Extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914–1991 - Hobsbawm