Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
4.19
Format: 630 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language…
Want to Read $ 16.99"Perfume the literature you write with only the finest inks, for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume. —Arabic saying ~800 AD"-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
"In Arabic ‘the written symbol is considered to be identical with the sound indicated by it’. Letters are not just phonetic; they are phonic, acoustic,’… script that fills the ears of him that sees it’, as poet al-Mutanabbi was to call them."-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
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1. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Paul Kriwaczek
3.91
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
2. The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
By: Susan Wise Bauer
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Hardcover
A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the worl… read more
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3. Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
By: Firas Alkhateeb
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the… read more
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4. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
By: Tamim Ansary
3.87
Format: 144 pages,
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more
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5. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
By: Chris Wickham
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
An ambitious and enlightening look at why the so-called Dark Ages were anything but that. Prizewinn… read more
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6. The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
By: Eugene Rogan
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nati… read more
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7. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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8. Iran: A Modern History
By: Abbas Amanat
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense, but an ambitious exploration… read more
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9. The First Crusade: The Call from the East
By: Peter Frankopan
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated … read more
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10. The Arabs: A History
By: Eugene Rogan
3.86
Format: None pages,
To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground character… read more
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11. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
By: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemen… read more
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12. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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13. The Story of Russia
By: Orlando Figes
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more
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14. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
By: Eric H. Cline
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more
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15. Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
By: Dan Jones
4.15
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Dan Jones, best-selling chronicler of the Middle Ages, turns his attention to the history of the Cr… read more
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16. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
By: Pekka Hämäläinen
4.05
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more
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17. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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18. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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19. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
By: Camilla Townsend
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more
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"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
20. Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
By: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
4.19
Format: 630 pages, Hardcover
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language… read more
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"Perfume the literature you write with only the finest inks, for literature works are luscious girls, and ink their precious perfume. —Arabic saying ~800 AD"-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
"In Arabic ‘the written symbol is considered to be identical with the sound indicated by it’. Letters are not just phonetic; they are phonic, acoustic,’… script that fills the ears of him that sees it…"-Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
21. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
4.38
Format: 620 pages, Hardcover
This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of t… read more
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"...if the Greeks joined together in the Panhellenic cause and attacked Persia to take land and wealth. Once conquered, Asian barbarians would work the field and tend the cattle as slaves or helot-lik…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
"The Macedonians and Greek has been raised to despise Persians and all Asians as barbarians, fit only to be slaves, and the defeat of Darius and his great armies can only have reinforced their immense…"-Adrian Goldsworthy, Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
