History · Similar reads
Books like The Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun is about civilization, political cycles, social cohesion. 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
01
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 → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
02
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Read the summary → - The Lessons of History
03
Will & Ariel Durant · History
The Lessons of History is the Durants' distillation of their eleven-volume The Story of Civilization — a project that consumed forty years — into a slim, hundred-page essay.
Read the summary → - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
04
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · History
Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is one of the monuments of historical writing in English.
Read the summary → - The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
05
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington · History
Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, published in 1996, is an expansion of a 1993 Foreign Affairs essay that generated more response than almost any article in that journal's history.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
06
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 →
