19 best-selling nonfiction books like Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany by Dagmar Herzog

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Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany

By: Dagmar Herzog

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this …

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1. Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

By: Kathryn Burns

3.93

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Writing has long been linked to power. For early modern people on both sides of the Atlantic, writi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles)

By: Jan Tomasz Gross , Stephen Kotkin

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, com… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

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4. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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  • feminism
"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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5. Survival in Auschwitz

By: Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Ausch… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
"... infin che un giorno senso non avrà più dire : domani" (...jusqu'à ce qu'un jour dire "demain" n'ait plus de sens)"

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"…in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

"Qualcuno, molto tempo fa, ha scritto che anche i libri, come gli esseri umani, hanno un loro destino, imprevedibile, diverso da quello che per loro si desiderava e si attendeva."

-Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

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6. Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization

By: Stephen Kotkin

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the m… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. Origins of Nazi Genocide

By: Henry Friedlander

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlanderexplores in chilling detail how… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • european history
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9. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on moder… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

11. HHhH

By: Laurent Binet

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Deux parachutistes tchecoslovaques envoyes par Londres sont charges d'assassiner Reinhard Heydrich,… read more

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12. La lingua salvata: storia di una giovinezza

By: Elias Canetti , Amina Pandolfi , Renata Colorni

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

La lingua in cui ci si esprime come identita culturale e antropologica, ma anche come conquista ori… read more

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13. The Aeneid

By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald

4.50

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more

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14. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

15. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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16. Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

By: Samuel Moyn

3.98

Format: 176 pages,

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17. Nervous Conditions

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

4.54

Format: 253 pages,

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more

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18. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

By: Lynn Hunt

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the… read more

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19. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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20. Crazy Brave

By: Joy Harjo

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one… read more

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21. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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22. Travellers in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.05

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"

-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich

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23. The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America

By: Joshua Piker

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighte… read more

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  • history
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24. Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North (Cornell Paperbacks)

By: Yuri Slezkine

3.99

Format: 476 pages, Paperback

For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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25. The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

By: Maya Jasanoff

4.09

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Anyone could be savage. Everywhere could go dark"

-Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

"History is like therapy for the present, it makes it talk about its parents."

-Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

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26. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany

By: Isabel V. Hull

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • germany
  • history
  • european history
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27. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany

By: Dagmar Herzog

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this … read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • sexuality
  • sociology
Cover of Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster by Kate     Brown

28. Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster

By: Kate Brown

4.08

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History Winner of the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize Fi… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Colonialism in Global Perspective

By: Kris Manjapra

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe's … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) by Sophie White

30. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

By: Sophie White

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic

By: Donna Harsch

3.88

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

"Revenge of the Domestic" examines gender relations in East Germany from 1945 to the 1970s, focusin… read more

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20 best-selling history books like Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany by Dagmar Herzog

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Into the Archive: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru

Kathryn Burns

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles)

Jan Tomasz Gross , Stephen Kotkin

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

Saul Friedländer

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Survival in Auschwitz

Primo Levi , Philip Roth , Stuart J. Woolf

4.33

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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Peter Pomerantsev

3.97

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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East

David Fromkin

4.21

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Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

Christopher Clark

3.79

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