Empires at War, 1911-1923
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the …
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1. Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small … read more
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"Achievement was worthy of praise and honor, but excessive achievement was pernicious and a threat to the state. However great a citizen might become, however great he might wish to become, the truest…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she had a duty to propagate them; that …"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"Honour, in the Republic, had never been a goal in itself, only a means to an infinite end. And what was true of her citizens, naturally, was also true of Rome herself. For the generation that had liv…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
"It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else was the size of their empire to be explained? Yet they also knew that the Republic's gre…"-Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
2. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999
By: Misha Glenny
4.09
Format: 752 pages, Paperback
This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more
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3. The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-1932
By: William E. Leuchtenburg , Daniel J. Boorstin
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and U.S. entry into World War I and closing with the Great Depression… read more
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4. To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
By: Ian Kershaw
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kersh… read more
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5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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6. The German Empire, 1870-1918
By: Michael Stürmer
3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In "The German Empire," one of Europe's great historians and men of letters chronicles one of histo… read more
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7. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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8. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
By: David M. Kennedy
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more
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9. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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10. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
By: Richard D. White Jr.
3.80
Format: None pages,
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11. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
By: Linda Gordon
3.85
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the … read more
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12. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
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14. Nations and Nationalism
By: Ernest Gellner , None , None , None
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
From reviews of the first edition: "Brilliant, provocative . . . a great book."--New Statesman "An… read more
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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. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
By: Lisa McGirr
4.50
Format: 144 pages,
Prohibition has long been portrayed as a "noble experiment" that failed, a newsreel story of glamor… read more
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17. Fighting the Great War: A Global History
By: Michael S. Neiberg
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. … read more
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18. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
19. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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20. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.81
Format: None pages, Hardcover
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration i… read more
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21. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
22. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
By: Katja Hoyer
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more
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23. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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24. The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War (Cambridge Military Histories)
By: Mustafa Aksakal
4.07
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's d… read more
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25. Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
By: Christopher Capozzola
3.91
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Ame… read more
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26. The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State
By: Mary Poole
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between … read more
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27. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
By: Elizabeth Borgwardt
3.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World… read more
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28. Empires at War, 1911-1923
By: Robert Gerwarth
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the … read more
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29. Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict (International Library of Twentieth Century History Book 68)
By: Andrew Tait Jarboe
3.33
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Soon after the guns in Belgium and France had signaled the commencement of what would become the wo… read more
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30. World War I in Africa: The Forgotten Conflict Among the European Powers (International Library of Twentieth Century History)
By: Anne Samson
3.00
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The First World War in German Southern and East Africa was fought in extremely different circumstan… read more
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31. World War One in Southeast Asia: Colonialism and Anticolonialism in an Era of Global Conflict
By: Heather E. Streets-Salter
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Although not a major player during the course of the First World War, Southeast Asia was in fact al… read more
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