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Books like Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley is about naval warfare, mediterranean history, ottoman empire. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
Read the summary → - The Guns of August
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Barbara Tuchman · History
The Guns of August covers the first month of the First World War — from the funeral of King Edward VII in May 1910 to the stalled offensives of September 1914 — with a level of narrative authority and moral clarity that has made it the defining popular history of the war's opening disaster.
Read the summary → - Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Holland · History
Rubicon tells the story of the Roman Republic's last century — from the Gracchi in the 130s BCE through the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE and the civil wars that followed — with the narrative energy of a thriller and the sourcing of serious scholarship.
Read the summary → - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan · History
Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads proposes a radical recentering of world history.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
Read the summary → - 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann · History
Where 1491 ends, 1493 begins.
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