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The best World History books
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Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money
3.9
24 min
Jared Diamond
Upheaval
3.9
29 min
Niall Ferguson
Civilization
3.9
20 min
Niall Ferguson
Empire
3.9
21 min
Mark Kurlansky
Salt
3.8
16 min
Tom Standage
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
3.8
15 min
Masha Gessen
The Man Without A Face
3.8
16 min
Sven Beckert
Empire of Cotton
3.9
19 min
Timothy C. Winegard
The Mosquito
3.7
21 min
Ben Wilson
Metropolis
4.1
12 min
Peter Frankopan
The New Silk Roads
3.6
13 min
J. Bradford DeLong
Slouching Towards Utopia
4
20 min
Sarah Bakewell
Humanly Possible
4
12 min
Robert J. McMahon
The Cold War
3.9
26 min
Walter Scheidel
The Great Leveler
3.8
13 min
James Stavridis
Sea Power
3.7
23 min
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Arabs
4.2
30 min
Julia Lovell
Maoism
4
25 min
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Written in History
3.6
12 min
Michael Axworthy
Revolutionary Iran
4.1
18 min
Tom Standage
A Brief History of Motion
3.8
29 min
Nicholas A. Basbanes
On Paper
3.9
11 min
Darrin M. McMahon
Happiness
3.8
11 min
Nicholas Griffin
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
3.8
20 min
Toyin Falola
A History of Nigeria
3.8
19 min
Bruce Watson
Light
3.8
10 min
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila
3.9
23 min
Timothy C. Winegard
The Horse
4.1
18 min