Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
By: Nandini Das
3.94
Format: 580 pages, ebook
A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of …
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1. India: A History
By: John Keay
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South… read more
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2. The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
By: Tom Burgis
3.76
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
One of Financial Times' Books of the Year, 2015 The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth … read more
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3. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
4. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
6. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
7. The Book of Everlasting Things
By: Aanchal Malhotra
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more
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8. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
By: Katja Hoyer
4.23
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more
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"Some of the “songs"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
9. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
By: Caroline Elkins
4.26
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more
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10. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)
By: Simon Scarrow
4.20
Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition
Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more
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11. Lawrence of Arabia
By: Ranulph Fiennes
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pre-order the authoritative, illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the ic… read more
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12. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
By: Zeinab Badawi
3.97
Format: 531 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Afric… read more
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13. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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14. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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15. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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16. 1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India
By: Anam Zakaria
4.14
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral … read more
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17. Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
By: Nandini Das
3.94
Format: 580 pages, ebook
A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of … read more
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18. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
By: Josephine Quinn
4.12
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning Oxford history professor overturns the way the West thinks about itself, tracing i… read more
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19. Tudor England: A History
By: Lucy Wooding
4.17
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England … read more
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20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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21. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
By: William Dalrymple
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more
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