Historical literature

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Herodotus. Histories. c. 430 BC, bk. 7.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7.

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Freud, Sigmund. Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion [The Man Moses and the Monotheist Religion]. Hogarth Press, 1939, pt. 3.

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Freud, Sigmund. Moses and Monotheism, translated by Katherine Jones. Vintage, 1955, pt. 3.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 26.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 26.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Plutarch. "Demetrius." Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. c. 2nd century.

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Plutarch. "Demetrius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 3.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 3.

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Plato. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 3, sect. 86.

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Plato. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 3, sect. 86.

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Livy. Ab urbe condita [From the Founding of the City]. c. 9 BC, bk. 34, ch. 2, sect. 12.

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Livy. Rome and the Mediterranean: History of Rome from Its Foundation, books 31-45, translated by Henry Bettenson. Penguin Classics, 1976, bk. 34, ch. 2.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "On History." Fraser's Magazine, 1830.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "On History." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 27, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

At least a third of all the people in the world died.

Jean Froissart

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Froissart, Jean. Chroniques. c. 1369, bk. 1.

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Froissart, Jean. Chronicles, translated and edited by Geoffrey Brereton. Penguin Classics, 1978, bk. 1.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 3.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 3.

O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other.

Thomas Carlyle

The French Revolution: A History

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Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution: A History. London: James Fraser, 1837, pt. 1, bk. 5, ch. 5.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 3.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 3.

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Epicurus. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 140.

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Epicurus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 140.

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Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, bk. 2, ch. 13.

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Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 13.

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Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum [Ecclesiastical History of the English People]. c. 731, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Bede. "Ecclesiastical History of the English People." The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert, edited by Judith McClure and Roger Collins. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution [The Ancien Régime and the Revolution]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856, foreward.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, translated by Gerald Bevan. Penguin Classics, 2008, foreward.

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St. John, Henry. "Of the Study of History." Letters on the Study and Use of History. J. J. Tourneisen, 1788, letter 5.