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Europe

Review of Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (2007) by Diana K. Davis

Review of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe by Lydia Barnett (2019)

Review of Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600 by Nükhet Varlık (2017)

The Frigid Golden Age

Review of The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720, by Dagomar Degroot (2018)

Afterlives of Terror Cover

The Afterlives of Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France, by Ronen Steinberg (2019)

Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale by Deborah R. Coen. (2018)

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World By Ralph Bauer (2019)

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrei Pop (2019)

The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus (2019)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

Mother is a Verb: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019)

Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali

The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown (2003)

Yugoslavia in the Shadow of War: Veterans and the Limits of State Building, 1903-1945 by John Paul Newman (2015)

Book cover of Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union by Michael David-Fox

Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union by Michael David-Fox (2015)

Book cover of Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo (2017)

Book cover of Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert

Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert (2015)

Book cover of Angela Merkel: Europe's Most Influential Leader by Matthew Qvortrup

Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Leader (2016) by Matthew Qvortrup

Book cover of De tolk van Java by Alfred Birney

Remembering Dutch Decolonization through Historical Fiction

Book cover of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler (2016)

Humanity: A History of European Concepts in Practice From the Sixteenth Century to the Present, edited by Fabian Klose and Mirjam Thulin (2016)

Jerónimo Antonio Gil and the Idea of the Spanish Enlightenment, By Kelly Donahue-Wallace (2017)

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Soviet Central Asia, By Douglas Northrup (2003)

A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks, by Stewart Gordon (2015)

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman (1992)

The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert Paxton (2004)

Great Books on Women’s History: Crossing Borders

Great Books on Women’s History: Europe

Philip of Spain, King of England, by Harry Kelsey (2012)

Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth’s Slave Trader, by Harry Kelsey (2003)

Five Books on the End of Empire, by Wm. Roger Louis

Slaves and Englishmen, by Michael Guasco (2014)

The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester (2005)

More to Read about Magnum & Photojournalism

When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, by Kolleen M. Guy (2010)

From Virile Woman to Woman Christ: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, by Barbara Newman (1995)

Religion and the Decline of Magic, by Keith Thomas (1971)

Everyday Stalinism, by Sheila Fitzpatrick (2000)

Outlaws of the Atlantic, by Marcus Rediker (2014)

The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature, by Barbara Fuchs (2013)

The Isles: A History, by Norman Davies (1999)

Germans into Nazis, by Peter Fritzsche (1998)

The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, by Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1965)

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert C. Allen (2009)

Read More About the First World War

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, by Daniela Bleichmar (2012)

The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England 1660-1770, by Adrian Wilson (1995)

A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610, by R. Po-chia Hsia (2010)

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

Stalin’s Genocides by Norman Naimark (2011)

George Orwell: A Life in Letters (2013)

Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1991)

Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation by Donald Raleigh (2013)

Great Books on Islam in American Politics & History

Divided Together: The United States and the Soviet Union in the United Nations, 1945-1965, by Ilya Gaiduk (2013)

A Ferro e Fuoco: La Guerra Civile Europea, 1914-1945 by Enzo Traverso (2008)

Co-Winner of April Essay Contest: They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic (2005)

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves (1929)

Great Books on Possession, Exorcism and Witchcraft

Winner of Spring 2013 Essay Contest: Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi (1956)

State of Virginity: Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State by Ulrike Strasser (2004)

Winner of 2012 Undergraduate Essay Contest: The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt (2010)

Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain by Erin Kathleen Rowe (2011)

Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees by Peter Sahlins (1989)

Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte (1944)

Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India, by Gauri Viswanathan (1989)

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2009)

Book cover of The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

The Politics of the Veil by Joan Wallach Scott

Book cover of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements by Lynne Viola

The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements by Lynne Viola (2007)

The Second World War by Antony Beevor (2012)

The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II by Gabrielle Hecht (1998)

The Pity of War by Niall Ferguson (2000)

Book cover of The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher

The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire by John Gallagher (1982)

Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex and Society Since Gorbachev ed. Adele Marie Barker (1999)

Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (2004)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Homage to Catalonia (1938)

“Lightly Fictionalized” Books about the Italian Renaissance

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and the American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (2011)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

Scum of the Earth by Arthur Koestler (1941)

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (2007)

Sarah’s Key (2011)

Book cover of Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (2002)

Great Books on Worlds War II

Book cover of Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude

Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary by Bertrand M. Patenaude (2009)

Book cover of The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori

The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor Von Rezzori (2008)

Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in the Renaissance by Ulinka Rublack (2010)

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon by Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918)

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern (2003)

Book cover of The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years by Philippe Ariès

The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Ariés (1982)

Book cover of The Voices of Morebath: Reformation & Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy

The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy (2001)

Book cover of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988)

A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France by James Farr (2005)

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