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Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,Tania Branigan202324 pts1 wins5 listsW. W. NortonHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeRichard Hofstadter196322 pts3 wins4 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureIntellectual History & Ideas+2
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion, and Catastrophic MiscalculationScott Anderson202522 pts1 wins4 listsDoubledayHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas
Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the HistorianJohn Leonard Clive197320 pts2 wins2 listsSecker & WarburgBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+1
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in AmericaLouis Menand200120 pts3 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryConstitutional History+2
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex Ross200720 pts1 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryArt, Music & Performance+2
Utopian Thought in the Western WorldFrank E. Manuel, Fritzie P. Manuel198018 pts2 wins3 listsHarvard University PressHistoryConstitutional History+2
Meetings with Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel201616 pts2 wins3 listsAllen LaneHistoryConstitutional History+2
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand YearsDiarmaid MacCulloch200914 pts2 wins2 listsAllen LaneReligionReligion & Religious Movements+3
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic WorldStuart B. Schwartz200814 pts2 wins2 listsYale University PressReligionIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWilliam L. Shirer196014 pts2 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryWorld War Ii+2
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th CenturyBarbara W. Tuchman197814 pts1 wins2 listsBallantine BooksHistoryEurope & Russia+3
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)Meyer Schapiro197814 pts1 wins2 listsGeorge BrazillerArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787Gordon S. Wood196914 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Age of the Democratic Revolution: Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800R. R. Palmer195914 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
A History of American Magazines, Volume IVFrank Luther Mott193914 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+3
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman201112 pts1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxScienceLiterature & Writers+2
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400–2000John Darwin200712 pts1 wins2 listsAllen LaneHistoryEurope & Russia+3
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro197412 pts1 wins3 listsRandom House CanadaMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and ReasonChristopher de Bellaigue201712 pts0 wins4 listsLiverightReligionConstitutional History+1
Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him About the BrainMasud Husain202510 pts1 wins1 listsCanongateScienceGender & Feminism+2
Feel Free: EssaysZadie Smith201810 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin BooksSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+2
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English ReformationPeter Marshall201710 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+1
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in EuropeDavid I. Kertzer201410 pts1 wins1 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Distant ReadingFranco Moretti201310 pts1 wins1 listsVerso BooksArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Padre Pio: Miracles and Politics in a Secular AgeSergio Luzzatto201010 pts1 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle EastLawrence Freedman200810 pts1 wins1 listsPublicAffairsPolitics & GovernmentHuman Rights & International Law+3
Children's Literature: A Readers' History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry PotterSeth Lerer200810 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Reformation: A HistoryDiarmaid MacCulloch200310 pts1 wins1 listsVikingHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Tests of TimeWilliam H. Gass200210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Ingenuity GapThomas Homer-Dixon200010 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksTechnologyNatural History & Animals+3
The Universe in a NutshellStephen Hawking200010 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceIntellectual History & Ideas+1
The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000Martin Amis199810 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth CenturyJohn Brewer199710 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995David E. Kyvig199610 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity Press of KansasHistoryConstitutional History+3
Finding a FormWilliam H. Gass199610 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life; Volume I: The Private YearsCharles Capper199410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+3
The End of History and the Last ManFrancis Fukuyama199210 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin BooksPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+2
Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical PresentArthur C. Danto199110 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
Dance WritingsEdwin Denby198610 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity Press of FloridaArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Blind WatchmakerRichard Dawkins198610 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonScienceIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Habitations of the Word: EssaysWilliam H. Gass198510 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Second American Revolution and Other EssaysGore Vidal198210 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865Mary P. Ryan198110 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
A Severe MercySheldon Vanauken198010 pts1 wins1 listsHodder & StoughtonMemoir & AutobiographyEvangelicalism & Christian Nationalism+2
Norman Thomas: The Last IdealistW. A. Swanberg197610 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite TasksMaurice Natanson197310 pts1 wins1 listsNorthwestern University PressBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century EnglandKeith Thomas197110 pts1 wins1 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonReligionReligion & Religious Movements+2
A Virgil Thomson ReaderVirgil Thomson196610 pts1 wins1 listsPlumeArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on ReligionNorbert Wiener196410 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceEvangelicalism & Christian Nationalism+2
To the Farewell Address; Ideas of Early American Foreign PolicyFelix Gilbert196110 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
A Religious History of the American PeopleS. E. Ahlstrom197310 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressReligionReligion & Religious Movements+2
Making WavesMario Vargas Llosa199710 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern PaganismPeter Gay196710 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLgbtq History & Life+2
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian MedicineLindsey Fitzharris201710 pts1 wins3 listsAllen LaneMedicine & Public HealthEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Gene: An Intimate HistorySiddhartha Mukherjee201710 pts1 wins3 listsScribnerScienceIntellectual History & Ideas+1
Penelope Fitzgerald: A LifeHermione Lee20138 pts2 wins2 listsRandom HouseBiographyLiterature & Writers+3
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 ADPeter Brown20128 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressReligionIntellectual History & Ideas+2
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of EuropeWilliam I. Hitchcock20088 pts1 wins2 listsFree PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman RepublicTom Holland20038 pts1 wins2 listsLittle, BrownHistoryLiterature & Writers+2
Emerson: The Mind on FireRobert D. Richardson, Jr.19958 pts1 wins2 listsUniversity of California PressMemoir & AutobiographyEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of Scientific CreativityHoward E. Gruber, Paul H. Barrett19748 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressScienceIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern WorldDavid Van Reybrouck20248 pts0 wins2 listsW. W. NortonHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+1
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called QuestHanif Abdurraqib20198 pts0 wins2 listsUniversity of Texas PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty QuestionsValeria Luiselli20178 pts0 wins2 listsCoffee House PressRace & EthnicityIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Michelangelo & the Popes CeilingRoss King20038 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HouseArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty EssaysGuy Davenport19818 pts0 wins2 listsDavid R. GodineArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the WarsPaul Fussell19808 pts0 wins2 listsOxford University PressTravel & PlaceIntellectual History & Ideas+3
America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth CenturyFrances FitzGerald19798 pts0 wins2 listsVintage BooksHistoryMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+3
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American PeopleJon Butler19906 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressReligionReligion & Religious Movements+2
The Invention of Race in the European Middle AgesGeraldine Heng20186 pts1 wins2 listsCambridge University PressRace & EthnicityIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic SocietyLeor Halevi20076 pts1 wins2 listsColumbia University PressHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop CultureDaniel Mendelsohn20126 pts0 wins2 listsSecker & WarburgArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother TongueYoko Tawada20256 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual CultureCarolyn Dean20254 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Texas PressArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern SciencePeter Dear20254 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryMedicine, Health & the Body+3
The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. ConstitutionKeith Richotte, Jr.20254 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressPolitics & GovernmentConstitutional History+3
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual WorldSara E. Johnson20234 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+3
Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual DisabilitiesDennis H. Reid, Mary Rosswurm20234 pts1 wins1 listsElsevierMedicine & Public HealthMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save ThemDan Saladino20224 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxSociety & CultureFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945Julia Boyd20184 pts1 wins1 listsPegasus BooksHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and ReceptionJeffrey M. Hunt, R. Alden Smith, Fabio Stok20174 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Texas PressHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941Stephen Kotkin20174 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressBiographyEurope & Russia+1
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land: Reception from Late Antiquity through the RenaissanceKathryn Blair Moore20174 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Mozart's Music of Friends: Social Interplay in the Chamber WorksEdward Klorman20164 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressArts & CriticismEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American ThoughtJames Kloppenberg20164 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+3
Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal MummiesZahi Hawass, Sahar Saleem20154 pts1 wins1 listsThe American University in Cairo PressScienceTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern HumanitiesJames Turner20144 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to RobespierreJonathan Israel20144 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryLaw & Legal Change+2
Anti-Judaism: The Western TraditionDavid Nirenberg20134 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell UsNoson S. Yanofsky20134 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared ResourcesBrett M. Frischmann20124 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBusiness & EconomicsEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
Leibniz: An Intellectual BiographyMaria Rosa Antognazza20114 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceMedicine, Health & the Body+3
Complexity: A Guided TourMelanie Mitchell20094 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceIntellectual History & Ideas+1
German Orientalism in the Age of EmpireSuzanne Marchand20094 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryReligion & Religious Movements+3
All You Have To Do Is ListenRob Kapilow20084 pts1 wins1 listsWileyArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Europe (In Theory)Roberto M. Dainotto20074 pts1 wins1 listsDuke University PressHistoryEurope & Russia+3
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All awards · Topic: Intellectual History & Ideas · Sorted by score · 262 books · filtered