Civilizations
From early cities to vast empires, discover how civilizations rose, what held them together and why they fell.
Civilizations Library
Alexander the Great
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and Creation of the Modern Middle East
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction
America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
History of the Peloponnesian War
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies
Jerusalem: The Biography
Islam: A Short History
Mythos
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind
On Paper: The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Salt: A World History
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
The Peloponnesian War
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
The Twelve Caesars
Why The West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Women and Power: A Manifesto