What to Read After What is history?
Readers who loved What is history? by Edward Hallet Carr keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where What is history? is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after What is history?
In defense of history
The Historian's Craft
The idea of history
On history
The Landscape of History
The pursuit of history
Historiography
The uses and abuses of history
Historians' fallacies
Metahistory
Dead certainties
Telling the truth about history
The age of extremes
The Age of Revolution
Nations and nationalism since 1780
The age of empire, 1875-1914
The Age of Capital
Imagined communities
Iron Kingdom
The Invention of tradition
Empire
The Great Transformation
The Pity of War
The End of History and the Last Man