Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
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Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
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Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
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Wireless Wars: China’s Dangerous Domination of 5G and How We’re Fighting Back
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
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The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
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The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
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Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in Seventeenth-Century Europe
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India in the Persianate Age: 1000 – 1765
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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
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Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
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Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order
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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680- 1790
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To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
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Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
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Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War
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The Art of Political Control in China
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
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