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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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