User : TimothyBlue/Favorite History Books and Authors
Favorite History Books and Authors
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If you are looking for a citation or to verify a citation from one of these works, just ask me on my talk page . I'm happy to help if I can (as time/health permits). Many of these are on Kindle, so I can provide a Kindle location and chapter, but not always a page number. If there is an author listed here, but not the specific book your looking for, feel free ask because I may be able to help.
The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
The Barbarous Years by Bernard Bailyn
Before the Revolution by Daniel K. Richter
The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916-1926 by Jonathan Smele
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee
The Civil War of 1812 by Alan Taylor
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula
Engineers of the Soul: The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin’s Russia by Frank Westerman
Stalin (3 vols) by Stephen Kotkin
The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Götz Aly
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I by Alexander Watson
The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America by Lawrence Goodwyn
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 by George J. Sanchez
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
California Dream Series by Kevin Starr
They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy
The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 by Robert M. Fogelson
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 by Becky M. Nicolaides
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry
Ordeal of the Union by Allan Nevins
Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California by John L. Kessell
A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II by Maury Klein
Silver Like Dust: One Family’s Story of Japanese Internment by Kimi Cunningham Grant
A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
The Lights that Failed and The Triumph of the Dark by Zara Steiner
The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast by Andrew Lipman
The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War by Alfred Rieber
Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands by Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz (Eds.)
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 by Timothy Snyder
The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 by George R. Taylor
A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop
Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi by Katherine Coman
Industrial Society In England Towards The End Of The Eighteenth Century by Witt Bowden
The Injustice Never Leaves You: anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez