Book Rankings iI scraped marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/category/books. I used gemini-2.5-flash because it's affordable and llama is too slow on my macbook. I had it first extract book titles from posts. I then had it compare two books at a time to see which review expressed a stronger positive sentiment. There are roughly 24.5 million such comparisons to do for an exhaustive set, but I already racked up a decent bill on gemini with 2 million comparisons so I stopped there. Thus the rankings are roughly accurate but not necessarily extremely precise. You shouldn't necessarily interpret book #5 as being better than book #6, but moreso books #1-10 being better than books #10-20.

Tyler Cowen's favorites from Marginal Revolution

Genre: Social History ×
Showing 198 books in Social History
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000
1. The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000
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City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York
2. City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York
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3. Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition
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Last Call: A History of the Rise and Fall of Alcohol Prohibition
4. Last Call: A History of the Rise and Fall of Alcohol Prohibition
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Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters
5. Markets and Cultural Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters
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6. The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars
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7. Central Asia
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8. The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
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9. We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
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10. A History of England in 100 Places
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11. Religion and the Decline of Magic
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12. Imperial
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13. Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent
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14. Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
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15. Berlin at War
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16. Discovery — A Memoir
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17. Equality and Authority: a Study of Class, Status and Power in Australia
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18. Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
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19. The Idea of Epilepsy: A Medical and Social History of Epilepsy in the Modern Era (1860-2020)
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20. Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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21. Brown Face, Big Master
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22. Talking to Women
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23. The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
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24. This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
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25. Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present
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26. The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
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27. Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America
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28. Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
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29. Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York’s Greatest Borough
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30. The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
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31. Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War
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32. London Labour and the London Poor
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33. Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain
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34. A Life of Experimental Economics, volume I
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35. The Origins of AIDS
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36. The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
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37. A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s
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38. Mao’s Great Famine
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39. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
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40. The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
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41. A History of English Food
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42. The American People
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43. Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933
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44. Last Call: A History of Prohibition
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45. Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
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46. The Measure of Man: Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Republic
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47. Growing up Underground
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48. Enemy of All Mankind
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49. Britain’s War 1942-1947
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50. Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
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51. The Internal Enemy, Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
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52. Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs sparked a Movement
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53. The War of the Sexes: How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present
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54. China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed
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55. A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth Century New York
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56. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
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57. Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties
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58. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
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59. Scottish Society, 1707-1830, Beyond Jacobitism, Toward Industrialisation
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60. We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush
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61. Ireland Since the Famine
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62. State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974
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63. Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750-2000
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64. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
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65. Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War
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66. Island People: The Caribbean and the World
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67. Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught me About Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others)
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68. Island On Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire
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69. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era
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70. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
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71. A Cultural History of the British Empire
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72. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
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73. Mayday 1971: A White House at War, A Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America’s Biggest Mass Arrest
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74. The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal’s Dictatorship Fell
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75. Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity
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76. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier
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77. Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain
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78. Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War
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79. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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80. The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
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81. Leningrad: State of Siege
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82. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
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83. Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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84. Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II
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85. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
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86. Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich
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87. Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
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88. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
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89. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911, Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, & the Origins of Feminism
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90. Freedom: The Overthrow of the Slave Empires
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91. How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
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92. The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
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93. War by Other Means
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94. Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
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95. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-55
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96. Days on the Family Farm
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97. Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
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98. The Society of Equals
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99. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
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100. Killer High: A History of War in Six Drugs
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101. The Color of Law
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102. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
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103. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
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104. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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105. A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present
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106. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization
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107. Your World, Better
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108. Humankind: A Hopeful History
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109. Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests, and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean
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110. When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation
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111. Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China
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112. Black and British: A Forgotten History
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113. The Rise of the Military Welfare State
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114. Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State
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115. The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids
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116. The Great Transformation: China’s Road to Reform
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117. The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads
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118. Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
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119. Artisans and Machinery
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120. Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
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121. Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939
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122. Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom
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123. Self Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians
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124. The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
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125. Our America: A Photographic History
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126. Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
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127. The Downfall of Money: Germany’s hyperinflation and the destruction of the middle class
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128. Silent Spring
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129. Australian Dictionary of Biography
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130. Marked by Time: How Social Change has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans
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131. The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
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132. The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700
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133. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History 1962-1976
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134. Letters from Iceland
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135. A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
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136. Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
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137. Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
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138. Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
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139. History of My Life
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140. The Feminine Mystique
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141. Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
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142. Prohibition: A Concise History
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143. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
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144. Negro Thought in America 1880-1915: Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington
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145. Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey
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146. The Club No One Wanted to Join: Madoff Victims in Their Own Words
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147. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain From the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times
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148. Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid
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149. Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
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150. Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
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151. Let’s Talk About Race and Priesthood
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152. Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907
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153. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War
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154. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
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155. Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
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156. Getting Better
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157. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
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158. Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
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159. Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
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160. Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money & Race in America
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161. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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162. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
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163. The Road to Wigan Pier
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164. A Short History of Celebrity
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165. The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment
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166. The Riches of This Land: The untold, true story of America’s middle class
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167. Italian Fascism: Its Origin and Development
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168. The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfillment in Early Modern England
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169. Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the 15th Century to the 21st
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170. Last Call
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171. Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
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172. The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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173. Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education
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174. The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Visionary of Weimar Berlin
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175. Venice: Pure City
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176. Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy
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177. American Tax Resisters
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178. Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History From the Puritans to Donald Trump
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179. From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
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180. Capitalism and its Critics, A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
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181. A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit
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182. A Pickpocket’s Tale
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183. Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America
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184. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster
BT: -3.61 323 comparisons
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185. The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World
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186. Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
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187. Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation
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188. American Misfits and the Making of Middle Class Respectability
BT: -3.70 279 comparisons
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189. The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838
BT: -3.75 353 comparisons
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190. African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
BT: -3.87 289 comparisons
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191. Common Ground
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192. Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development 1660-1750
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193. The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
BT: -4.12 281 comparisons
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194. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD
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195. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History
BT: -4.34 226 comparisons
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196. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
BT: -4.36 187 comparisons
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197. The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
BT: -5.07 122 comparisons
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198. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe
BT: -7.58 73 comparisons
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