The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries
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Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery
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Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News
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Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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Past and Prologue: Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
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Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network
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Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
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Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
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The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America’s Future
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
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The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups
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The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
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George Washington: A Life in Books
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Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
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Show Them You’re Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College
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Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
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The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965 – 1966
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
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The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, the Power Behind Five English Thrones
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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