Random history (and related) books on my reading list.
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
by Daniel Pool
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An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England
by Venetia Murray
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics)
by Edward Gibbon
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Functions Of Victorian Culture: At Present Time
by Christine L. Krueger
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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by Justin Kaplan
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
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Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, And Repression from the Terror to Napoleon
by Howard G. Brown
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Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors
by Charles S. Maier
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The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs
by David S. Barnes
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Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 12001425
by Samuel K., Jr. Cohn
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The Ethnic Origins of Nations
by Anthony D. Smith
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The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives & New Directions
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
by Steven Mithen
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The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833
by H. V. Bowen
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Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History)
by Sally Springmeyer Zanjani
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Confession And Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England
by Katherine C. Little
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The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
by Nicholas B. Dirks
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Censorship And Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England
by Debora Shuger
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The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville (Harvard Historical Studies)
by Matthew W. Maguire
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The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe: Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics
by David Roberts
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Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington
by Peter R. Henriques
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Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe
by Benjamin Lieberman
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Pets in America: A History
by Katherine C. Grier
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Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-century Painting (The New Middle Ages)
by Jennifer L. Ball
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Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship in London (Series in Childhood Studies) (Suters Series in Childhood Studies)
by Lydia Murdoch
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Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800
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Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church, and the Roman Superpower
by Christopher Bryan
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Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)
by Aileen Ribeiro
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The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
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Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome
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Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
by William Hutton
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From Empire to Orient: Travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926
by Geoffrey P. Nash
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Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945 (Anthem South Asian Studies)
by Satadru Sen
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After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
by A. N. Wilson
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A New World Of Animals: Early Modern Europeans On The Creatures Of Iberian America
by Miguel De Asua
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Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II
by Philip Mansel
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Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
by Melanie Dawson
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The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study
by Stuart J. Borsch
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Sexuality in Medieval Europe
by Rut Mazo Karras
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Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands
by Lindsay G. Robertson
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Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History)
by Kelly J. Dixon
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The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection
by Gretchen Reydams-Schils
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Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)
by Ken S. McAllister
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Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture
by Jonathan M. Hall
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City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920 (Working Class in American History)
by Jerome P. Bjelopera
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First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by Jeffrey Sissons
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I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International)
by Robert Graves
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Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century: Age And Identity (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
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The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe
by Brian W. Ogilvie
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Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
by Saskia Sassen
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