Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell | 
Civilization: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson | 
The Human Web
by J. R. McNeill |
The Outline of History
by H. G. Wells | 
World History For Dummies
by Peter Haugen | 
The Rise of the West
by William H. McNeill | 
A History of Civilizations
by Fernand Braudel | 
After Tamerlane
by John Darwin |
Eyewitness to History
by John Carey |
Civilization
by Roger Osborne |
History
by Adam Hart-Davis | 
Asimov's Chronology of the World
by Isaac Asimov | 
The Lessons of History
by Will Durant |
Catastrophe
by David Keys | 
The Birth of the Modern
by Paul Johnson |
The Evolution of Civilizations
by Carroll Quigley | 
The Mind and the Market
by Jerry Z. Muller |
How to Change the World
by Eric Hobsbawm | 
The Red Flag
by David Priestland | 
Race And Culture
by Thomas Sowell |
This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areas(that of the British, the Africans (including the African diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere -- Conquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these peoples but others and help explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development.