Jacques Barzun - From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present (2001)

The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1864)

Intellectuals By Paul Johnson

Daniel J. Boorstin - The Discoverers

The Great Courses - The Industrial Revolution (audiobook/lectures)

Decline of the West - Spengler