The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
1776★ 8.8
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History of the Peloponnesian War
431 BC★ 8.2
Postwar
2005★ 7.6
The Annals
117★ 7.6
The Twelve Caesars
121★ 7.2
Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790★ 7.1
Black Reconstruction in America
1935★ 7.0
The Black Jacobins
1938★ 7.0
The Best and the Brightest
1972★ 7.0
Homage to Catalonia
1938★ 6.9
The French Revolution
1837★ 6.9
Parting the Waters
1988★ 6.9
American Slavery, American Freedom
1975★ 6.8
Embracing Defeat
1999★ 6.7
The Secret History
550★ 6.7
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
1967★ 6.7
The Age of Revolution
1962★ 6.6
The Age of Extremes
1994★ 6.5
The American Political Tradition
1948★ 6.5
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1960★ 6.5
Citizens
1989★ 6.4
The Great Game
1990★ 6.4
Diplomacy
1994★ 6.4
India After Gandhi
2007★ 6.4
Imagined Communities
1983★ 6.3
W. E. B. Du Bois
1993★ 6.0
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
1993★ 6.0
Fire in the Lake
1972★ 5.9
The World Turned Upside Down
1972★ 5.8
Against the Grain
2017★ 5.5
The Looming Tower
2006★ 5.4