INR 2002 Expanded Sources and Recommended Books
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HISTORY |
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OVERALL HISTORY |
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The West (class textbook) |
Levack etc.al. |
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Europe, A History |
Norman Davies |
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Rise of the West |
William McNeill |
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The Story of Civilization |
Will Durant |
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DEEP HISTORICAL ANALYSIS |
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Decline of the West |
Oswald Spengler |
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A Study of History |
Arnold Toynbee |
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From Dawn to Decadence |
Jacques Barzun |
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PREHISTORIC |
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The Third Chimpanzee |
Jared Diamond |
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ANCIENT |
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CLASSICAL |
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A Pillar of Iron |
Taylor Caldwell |
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Dear and Glorious Physician |
Taylor Caldwell |
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Great Lion of God |
Taylor Caldwell |
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MEDIEVAL |
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Mohammad and Charlemagne |
Henri Pirenne |
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How the Irish Saved Civilization |
Thomas Cahill |
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EARLY MODERN |
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MODERN |
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TWENTIETH CENTURY |
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CULTURE |
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ART |
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Civilisation |
Kenneth Clark |
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Western Architecture |
David Watkin |
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Ascent of Man |
Jacob Bronowski |
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RELIGION |
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The Bible |
Old and New Testaments |
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A History of God |
Karen Armstrong |
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The Source |
James A. Michener |
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Memory and Identity |
Pope John Paul II |
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PHILOSOPHY |
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Wisdom of the West |
Bertrand Russell |
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The Story of Philosophy |
Will Durant |
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WARFARE |
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Battle |
R.G. Grant (DK) |
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A History of Warfare |
John Keegan |
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The Transformation of War |
Martin Van Creveld |
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
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The End of History and the Last Man |
Francis Fukuyama |
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The Clash of Civilizations |
Samuel Huntington |
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The Coming Anarchy |
Robert Kaplan |
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Second Chance |
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
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Rise and Decline of the State |
Martin Van Creveld |
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POSTMODERN DILEMMAS |
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Closing of the American Mind |
Allan Bloom |
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Culture Counts |
Roger Scruton |
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A VISION OF THE FUTURE |
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Cosmos |
Carl Sagan |
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Pale Blue Dot |
Carl Sagan |
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Dave Tamm |
