What to Read After The Idea of History
Readers who loved The Idea of History by R. G. Collingwood keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Idea of 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 The Idea of History
What Is History?
The Historian's Craft
New Science
Metahistory
The Great Chain of Being
Historians' Fallacies
New Perspectives on Historical Writing
In Defense of History
Radical Enlightenment
Historiography
The Footnote
Main currents of Marxism
The Killing of History
The Enlightenment
On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History
The Joyless Economy
Telling the Truth About History
An Essay on Man
The Landscape of History
The Purpose of the Past
Representations of the Intellectual
Iron Kingdom
The Age of Extremes
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions