User:TimothyBlue/Favorite History Books and Authors

Favorite History Books and Authors

 * If you are looking for a citation or to verify a citation from one of these works, just ask me on my talk page. I'm happy to help if I can (as time/health permits). Many of these are on Kindle, so I can provide a Kindle location and chapter, but not always a page number. If there is an author listed here, but not the specific book your looking for, feel free ask because I may be able to help.


 * The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
 * The Barbarous Years by Bernard Bailyn
 * Before the Revolution by Daniel K. Richter
 * The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916-1926 by Jonathan Smele
 * Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
 * At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee
 * The Civil War of 1812 by Alan Taylor
 * Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula
 * Engineers of the Soul: The Grandiose Propaganda of Stalin’s Russia by Frank Westerman
 * Stalin (3 vols) by Stephen Kotkin
 * The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans
 * The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia by Orlando Figes
 * The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven
 * The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
 * The Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
 * The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
 * Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Götz Aly
 * Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I by Alexander Watson
 * The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America by Lawrence Goodwyn
 * Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 by George J. Sanchez
 * The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
 * California Dream Series by Kevin Starr
 * They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy
 * The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 by Robert M. Fogelson
 * My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 by Becky M. Nicolaides
 * Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
 * An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
 * American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
 * A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent by Robert W. Merry
 * Ordeal of the Union by Allan Nevins
 * Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California by John L. Kessell
 * A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II by Maury Klein
 * Silver Like Dust: One Family’s Story of Japanese Internment by Kimi Cunningham Grant
 * A Bright and Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
 * Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
 * Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 by Fred Anderson
 * The Lights that Failed and The Triumph of the Dark by Zara Steiner
 * The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast by Andrew Lipman
 * The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War by Alfred Rieber
 * Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands by Omer Bartov and Eric D. Weitz (Eds.)
 * The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 by Timothy Snyder
 * The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 by George R. Taylor
 * A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by John Leander Bishop
 * Economic Beginnings of the Far West: How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi by Katherine Coman
 * Industrial Society In England Towards The End Of The Eighteenth Century by Witt Bowden
 * The Injustice Never Leaves You: anti-Mexican Violence in Texas by Monica Muñoz Martinez