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General & World History

Big histories that change how we see the past. Mary Beard's SPQR tells the story of ancient Rome's first thousand years; Reza Aslan's Zealot places Jesus of Nazareth in the turbulent world of first-century Palestine. Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost exposes the brutal exploitation of the Congo under Belgium's king, and Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism asks how Nazism and Stalinism became possible. Serious, readable history, from antiquity to the twentieth century, for readers who want to understand where today's world came from.