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Books on history, anthropology, world
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 6:10pm — Daniel.Curtis
New biography of thos Jefferson
- Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Ann Applebaum 2012 pb fz
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Faust 2012? fz
- Collapse by Jared Diamond 2011
- Civilization: The west and the rest by Niall Ferguson 2011? fz
- Arrival City: the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug Sanders, 2011 (immigration to cities worldwide)
- The Swerve: How the World became Modern by Stephen Greenblat, 2011. Title misleads. Not about modernity. About Lucretius and Renaissance.
- 1491 by Charles Mann 2005 pb
- 1493 by Charles Mann 2011 pb
- 1599: A day in the life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro 2005?
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond - 1997
- Postwar by Tony Judt. 900 pp
- What is the What? by Dave Eggers 2007 – on Sudan
- Edward Rutherford, New York: The Novel (2010, 880 pages)
- The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore 2011?
- Revolutionaries by Jack Rakove 2010? Pulitzer Prize; US Revoution
- Lyndon Johnson biographies, by Robert Caro
- 5/08-7/08 Susan Jacoby The Age of American Unreason
- The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz (2000) -media images, stereotyped memories of 1950s-60s are mostly wrong
- Bill Clinton, My Life
- Coming Apart: an informal history of America in the 1960s by William O’Neill 1971