Lists of Bests: amamik's "History" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25336 Random history (and related) books on my reading list. Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:02:21 GMT en-us 0 50 73 50 0 What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18186 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18186"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0671882368.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47025610_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Pool</div> An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3010 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3010"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140282963.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Venetia Murray</div> The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3218 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3218"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140437649.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Gibbon</div> Functions Of Victorian Culture: At Present Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471405 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1471405"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0821414615.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christine L. Krueger</div> When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643979 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2643979"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000MR8TFY.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Justin Kaplan</div> History of Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26428 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26428"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0847826465.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Umberto Eco</div> Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, And Repression from the Terror to Napoleon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1084251 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1084251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813925460.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Howard G. Brown</div> Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608939 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1608939"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674021894.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles S. Maier</div> The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/921380 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/921380"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801883490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David S. Barnes</div> Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 12001425 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609005 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609005"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674021622.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Samuel K., Jr. Cohn</div> The Ethnic Origins of Nations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609011 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609011"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0631161694.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony D. Smith</div> The Economy of Early America: Historical Perspectives & New Directions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609058 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609058"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0271027118.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/148839 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/148839"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674021924.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Steven Mithen</div> The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609105 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609105"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521844770.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. V. Bowen</div> Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609109 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609109"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0874176638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sally Springmeyer Zanjani</div> Confession And Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609123 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609123"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0268033765.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine C. Little</div> The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/497844 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/497844"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674021665.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas B. Dirks</div> Censorship And Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609165 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609165"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812239172.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Debora Shuger</div> The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville (Harvard Historical Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609202 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609202"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674021886.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Matthew W. Maguire</div> The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe: Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609208 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Roberts</div> Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/785536 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/785536"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813925479.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter R. Henriques</div> Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing in the Making of Modern Europe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609247 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609247"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1566636469.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Benjamin Lieberman</div> Pets in America: A History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609273 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609273"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0807829900.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45110237_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Katherine C. Grier</div> Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-century Painting (The New Middle Ages) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609282 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1609282"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1403967008.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jennifer L. Ball</div> Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship in London (Series in Childhood Studies) (Suters Series in Childhood Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/151569 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/151569"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0813537223.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lydia Murdoch</div> Love, Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/725670 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/725670"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1403991472.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church, and the Roman Superpower http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117316 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1117316"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0195183347.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Bryan</div> Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/699335 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/699335"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300109997.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aileen Ribeiro</div> The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614966 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1544832 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1544832"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691089426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45328797_.jpg" /></a></div> Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias (Greek Culture in the Roman World) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979179 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/979179"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0521847206.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Hutton</div> From Empire to Orient: Travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614989 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1614989"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/185043767X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey P. Nash</div> Colonial Childhoods: The Juvenile Periphery of India 1850-1945 (Anthem South Asian Studies) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644167 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Satadru Sen</div> After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1027224 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1027224"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312425155.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. N. Wilson</div> A New World Of Animals: Early Modern Europeans On The Creatures Of Iberian America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615032 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1615032"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0754607798.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel De Asua</div> Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1702530 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1702530"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0300106971.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Mansel</div> Laboring to Play: Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1621000 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1621000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0817314490.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Melanie Dawson</div> The Black Death in Egypt and England: A Comparative Study http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1629892 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1629892"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0292706170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart J. Borsch</div> Sexuality in Medieval Europe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1629895 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1629895"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0415289629.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rut Mazo Karras</div> Conquest by Law: How the Discovery of America Dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of Their Lands http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/641609 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/641609"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/019514869X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lindsay G. Robertson</div> Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644329 <div id="position">41</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kelly J. Dixon</div> The Roman Stoics: Self, Responsibility, and Affection http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1429688 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gretchen Reydams-Schils</div> Game Work: Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644331 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644331"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0817354204.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken S. McAllister</div> Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1635284 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1635284"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226313301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan M. Hall</div> City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia, 1870-1920 (Working Class in American History) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644339 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644339"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0252029771.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jerome P. Bjelopera</div> First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures (Reaktion Books - Focus on Contemporary Issues) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639077 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1639077"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1861892411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Sissons</div> I, Claudius : From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18686"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972477X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Graves</div> Fashioning Childhood in the Eighteenth Century: Age And Identity (Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2238500 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2238500"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0754655091.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2238511 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2238511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226620875.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Brian W. Ogilvie</div> Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1070331 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1070331"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0691095388.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V45104003_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saskia Sassen</div>