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…
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1. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600 - 1850
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. 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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4. 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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5. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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6. 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
"Reading is never a waste of time."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"Every hundred feet the world changes"-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."-Roberto Bolaño, 2666
7. 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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8. 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
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"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
9. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
10. American Pastoral
By: Philip Roth
3.94
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."-Philip Roth, American Pastoral
11. Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
By: Andrea Wulf
4.18
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarka… read more
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12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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13. 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… read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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