What to Read After Metahistory
Readers who loved Metahistory by Hayden V. White keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Metahistory 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 Metahistory
The idea of history
Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism
The age of empire, 1875-1914
The true and only heaven
The Invention of tradition
The pursuit of history
Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century
In defense of history
What is history?
To the Finland station
The Companion Species Manifesto
Clues, myths, and the historical method
The spectre of comparisons
The Age of Capital
What is cultural history?
Industry and empire
Rasta and resistance
Archaeologies of the future
Customs in common
A history of civilizations
Rabelais and His World
On history
Security, territory, population
Mimesis