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Passage East

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9.6
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  • 2

    The Age of Empire 1875-1914

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    9.5
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  • 3

    An Elegant Madness:
    High Society in Regency England

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    9.5
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  • 4

    The Age of Capital:
    1848-1875

    Current rating
    9.5
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  • 5

    The First Moderns:
    Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought

    Current rating
    9.3
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  • 6

    Pleasure Wars

    (Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud/Peter Gay, Vol 5)

    Current rating
    9.1
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  • 7

    The War With Spain in 1898

    Current rating
    9.1
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  • 8

    Simple Social Graces:
    The Lost Art of Gracious Victorian Living

    Current rating
    9.0
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  • 9

    Mesmerized:
    Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain

    Current rating
    8.9
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  • 10

    Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

    (Penguin Classics)

    Current rating
    8.7
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  • 11 The Penguin Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century History
    Current rating
    8.5
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  • 12 The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates a
    Current rating
    8.4
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  • 13 The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815
    (Story of Civilization, 11)

    Current rating
    8.4
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  • 14 The Naked Heart
    Current rating
    8.4
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  • 15 Quest for the Jade Sea: Colonial Competition Around and East African Lake
    Current rating
    8.2
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  • 16 Delano's Voyages of Commerce and Discovery: Amasa Delano in China, the Pacific Islands, Australia, and South America, 1789-1807
    (American Classics)

    Current rating
    8.2
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  • 17 The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century History
    Current rating
    7.9
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  • 18 Fin de Siecle and Its Legacy
    Current rating
    7.7
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  • 19 Pleasure Wars
    Current rating
    7.5
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  • 20 The Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex: Three Narratives
    Current rating
    7.5
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