These are books mentioned in my lectures on-board Regent Voyager on her cruise Sydney-Auckland January 2020.
Skimming the History of the Honorable East India Company Books
Sugar, James Walvin
Sweetness and Power, Sidney W. Mintz
Spices, A Global History, Fred Czarra
Green Gold: The Empire of Tea, Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
The Dutch East Company and the British India Company, Charles River, Editors
Jan Compagnie in War and Peace 1602-1799, C.R. Boxer
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters, Robert Parthesius
The Dutch Republic, Jonathan I Israel
Dutch East India and Shipbuilding, Wendy can Duivenvoorde
Batavia’s Graveyard, Mike Dash
Merchant in Asia, Els M. Jacobs
The Honourable Company, John Keay
Battles of the Honourable East India Co, M.S. Naravane
The East India Company, Hourly History
The Corporation that Changed the World, Nick Robins
The East India Co., Trade and Conquest from 1600, Anthony Wild
Expedition of Jean-Francoise de Galaup, Comte de la Perouse
Where Fate Beckons, John Dunmore
The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire 1713-1763, Paul W. Mapp
Battle for Empire, Tom Pocock
The Age of the Ship of the Line, Jonathan R. Dull
Guns, Germs ans Steel, Jared Diamond
The French Navy and the Seven Years War, Jonathan R. Dull
Days of the French Revolution, Christopher Hibbert
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama
Gallipoli and the Anzacs
Gallipoli, Alan Moorehead
Gallipoli, Christopher Pugsley
The Anzac Experience, Christopher Pugsley
Gallipoli, Major Fred White Diary
Gallipoli, Peter Hart
Gallipoli, Peter Fitzsimons
Major Themes in History
Collapse, Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
Study of History, Arnold J. Toynbee
Clash of Civilizations, Remaking of World Order, Samuel Pl Huntington
The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama
Chariots of the Gods, Erich von Daniken
Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari