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24 books recommended for fans of Civilisation A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, tied together by themes of Civilization, Antiques & Collectibles, and Art.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Civilisation A Personal View.

American Progressives and German Social Reform, 1875-1920 Social Ethics, Moral Control, and the Regulatory State in a Transatlantic Context

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Themes: Civilization • Antiques & Collectibles • Art

Cabinets of Curiosities

Patrick Mauriès

Themes: Civilization • Antiques & Collectibles

The Phoenician Origin of Britons Scots and Anglo-Saxons

L. A. Waddell

Themes: Civilization • Antiques & Collectibles

The Library A Fragile History

Andrew Pettegree

Themes: Civilization • Antiques & Collectibles

Civilization

Kenneth Clark

Themes: Civilization • Art

First Contact Cult of Progress

David Olusoga

Themes: Civilization • Art

Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections The Crisis of Cultural Authority

Tiffany Jenkins

Themes: Civilization • Art

A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Themes: Civilization • Art

Alexander the Great The Making of a Myth

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Themes: Civilization • Art

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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance

Gordon Campbell

Themes: Civilization • Art

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Alexander the Great Journey to the End of the Earth

Norman F. Cantor

Themes: Civilization • Art

#12

The Humanities Culture, Continuity and Change

Henry M. Sayre

Themes: Civilization • Art

#13

The Ruin of the Roman Empire A New History — James J. O’Donnell

James J. O'Donnell

Themes: Civilization • Art

#14

God’s Gold A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem

Sean A. Kingsley

Themes: Civilization • Art

#15

The Romantic Revolution

T. C. W. Blanning

Themes: Civilization • Art

#16

Heretics and Heroes How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

Thomas Cahill

Themes: Civilization • Art

#17

Shark

Dean Crawford

Themes: Civilization • Art

#18

Stepping-stones A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

Christine Desdemaines-Hugon

Themes: Civilization • Art

#19

1434 The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

Gavin Menzies

Themes: Civilization • Art

#20

A Singular Modernity Essay on the Ontology of the Present

Fredric Jameson

Themes: Civilization • Art

#21

Vermeer’s Hat The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

Timothy Brook

Themes: Civilization • Art

#22

The Creators A History of Heroes of the Imagination

Daniel J. Boorstin

Themes: Civilization • Art

#23

History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia Three Essays

Piotr Steinkeller

Themes: Civilization • Art

#24

Osman’s Dream The History of the Ottoman Empire

Caroline Finkel

Themes: Civilization • Art

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Civilization, Antiques & Collectibles, Art — the same threads that run through Civilisation A Personal View by Kenneth Clark. Among the authors featured: Axel R. Schäfer, Patrick Mauriès, L. A. Waddell, Andrew Pettegree, and others.