King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
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Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
Stephen Kinzer
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Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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