The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context, Series Number 59)
By: David Armitage
3.41
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a…
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By: Prasannan Parthasarathi
3.55
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why… read more
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2. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan
By: Ayesha Jalal
4.05
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India.… read more
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3. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
By: David Foster Wallace
4.15
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more
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"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
4. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783
By: John Brewer , John Brewer
4.10
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
This powerful interpretation of English history provides a completely new framework for understandi… read more
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5. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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6. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
By: Andrea Wulf
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more
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7. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
By: Cal Newport
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this sk… read more
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8. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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9. 2666
By: Roberto Bolaño
4.21
Format: 1128 pages, Paperback
A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more
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"Nothing is ever behind us."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
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10. Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
By: Jeff VanderMeer
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades… read more
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11. The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset
By: None
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Violent, powerful, vast: the British Empire is typically viewed as distant and tropical. By contras… read more
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12. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
By: None
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Hardcover
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13. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
14. Stoner
By: John Williams , John McGahern
4.34
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming famil… read more
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15. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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16. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
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17. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context, Series Number 59)
By: David Armitage
3.41
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
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18. A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France
By: Jennifer Pitts
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling th… read more
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19. Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
By: Uday Singh Mehta
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet i… read more
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20. Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870
By: C.A. Bayly
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
This pioneering study, now known as the 'Bayly thesis', traces the evolution of the north Indian to… read more
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21. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.
By: Nicholas B. Dirks
3.77
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, ca… read more
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