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30 Great Books That Made History

Jaume Aurell
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Al-Masudi
Anna Komnene
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books that changed the world
C. L. R. James
Carl Christian Reindorf
Carolyn Steedman
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Chinese Dynasties
classic works of history
Edmundo O'Gorman
Edmundo O’Gorman
Edward Gibbon
Edward Thompson
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Eusebius
Fernand Braudel
Francesco Guicciardini
Fukuzawa Yukichi
global canon
great historical thinkers
greatest books in history
Greek Ethnography
Gu Jiegang
Hayden White
Henry Adams
Herodotus
historical canon
Historiography
history of ideas
Indian Genealogies
influential historical books
is there a historical canon
James I of Aragon
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jewish Drama
Johan Huizinga
Jules Michelet
Leopold von Ranke
Marc Bloch
Natalie Zemon Davis
Ranajit Guha
seminal works
Sima Qian
Snorri Sturluson
Thomas Macaulay
Thucydides
what is the historical canon

Product details

  • ISBN 9781509562411
  • Weight: 408g
  • Dimensions: 147 x 221mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Sep 2025
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Today, many readers could easily list thirty classic authors, or thirty classic works of art, literature, music, philosophy, or science. But would they be able to name thirty classic works of history? In spite of history's outsized influence in the world of ideas, the books that made - and-remade - the history we know so well are often forgotten.

In this panoramic book, distinguished historian Jaume Aurell sets out to introduce readers to a new canon of historical writing. Taking a global approach, he places the work of Herodotus, Thucydides, Gibbon, Michelet and Braudel alongside masterpieces from a myriad of periods and civilizations, from Sima Qian, Anna Komnene, al-Masudi and Fukuzawa Yukichi to Edmundo O'Gorman, C. L. R. James and Natalie Zemon Davis. At the same time, Aurell argues that we should not see these books as a definitive canon - instead, any canon should be seen as a list-in-progress to be contested and debated anew with each generation. It is only by being exposed to these diverse and deeply significant works that we can fully perceive the shape of the discipline, and carve out a new appreciation for the art of history writing.
About Jaume Aurell
Jaume Aurell is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of History at the University of Navarra.

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