10 Top history books like The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by J.R. Hale

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The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

By: J.R. Hale

3.89

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

Exploring every aspect of art, philosophy, politics, life and culture between 1450 and 1620, this e…

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1. On the Psychology of Military Incompetence

By: Norman F. Dixon

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This unique and penetrating book surveys 100 years of military inefficiency from the Crimean War, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Thermopylae: The Battle for the West

By: Ernle Bradford

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (th… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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3. Medieval Europe

By: Chris Wickham

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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4. The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors

By: John Gribbin

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Gulag

By: Anne Applebaum

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West

By: Roger Crowley

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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7. A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?

By: Jonathan Clements

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to t… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history

8. Renaissance Florence

By: Gene A. Brucker

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative perio… read more

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9. 1775: A Good Year for Revolution

By: Kevin Phillips

4.30

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution In … read more

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10. The Way of Kings, Part 2 (The Stormlight Archive #1.2)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbrin… read more

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11. The Way of Kings, Part 1 (The Stormlight Archive #1.1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

SPEAK AGAIN THE ANCIENT OATHS, LIFE BEFORE DEATH. STRENGTH BEFORE WEAKNESS. JOURNEY BEFORE DESTINAT… read more

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12. A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

By: Steven Nadler

4.27

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's "Theological-Political Treatise" was denounced as the mo… read more

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13. The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

By: Thomas Pakenham

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 read more

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14. A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

By: Geoffrey Wawro

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Austro-Hungarian army that marched eastward in the opening campaign of World War I was as disor… read more

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15. The Civilization of the Middle Ages

By: Norman F. Cantor

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Now revised and expanded, this edition of the splendidly detailed and lively history of the Middle … read more

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16. The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor

By: Martin Meredith

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Africa has been coveted for its riches ever since the era of the Pharaohs. In past centuries, it wa… read more

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17. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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18. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

By: Laurence Bergreen

4.67

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year… read more

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19. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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20. The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

By: J.R. Hale

3.89

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

Exploring every aspect of art, philosophy, politics, life and culture between 1450 and 1620, this e… read more

Similar categories in J.R. Hale's The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance book and J.R. Hale's The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance

  • cultural
  • art history
  • art
  • history
  • world history
  • 17th century
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 15th century
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21. 1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year

By: Nick Rennison

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of th… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • world history
  • historical
  • nonfiction

7 Top historical books like The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by J.R. Hale

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Thermopylae: The Battle for the West

Ernle Bradford

4.14

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Chris Wickham

3.72

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Gulag

Anne Applebaum

4.01

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A Brief History of the Vikings: The Last Pagans or the First Modern Europeans?

Jonathan Clements

1.00

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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

4.27

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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.41

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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

4.18

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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