City of Quartz
by Mike Davis | 
The Conquest of America
by Tzvetan Todorov | 
1492
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
The Evolution of Civilizations
by Carroll Quigley |
Catastrophe
by David Keys | 
Buda's Wagon
by Mike Davis |
Civilization
by Roger Osborne | 
After Tamerlane
by John Darwin |
The Anarchy
by William Dalrymple | 
The Discovery of India
by Jawaharlal Nehru |
Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare
by John Toohey | 
The Twentieth Century
by Howard Zinn | 
Cotton
by Stephen Yafa |
Eyewitness to History
by John Carey | 
Civilization on Trial
by Arnold J. Toynbee | 
Marvelous Possessions
by Stephen Greenblatt |
The Honourable Company
by John Keay | 
The Accidental Superpower
by Peter Zeihan | 
Open Veins of Latin America
by Eduardo Galeano | 
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
by Walter Rodney |
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the nineteenth century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World.