In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
By: Bruce Gilley
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, cont…
Want to Read $ 14.99"The myth of “artificial boundaries"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The myth of “artificial boundaries"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Berlin conference has been subject to a relentless campaign of debunking by modern intellectuals. One claim they make is that the assembled delegates “carved up"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Berlin conference has been subject to a relentless campaign of debunking by modern intellectuals. One claim they make is that the assembled delegates “carved up"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. Kolyma Tales
By: Varlam Shalamov , John Glad , Варлам Шаламов
4.36
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in… read more
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- nonfiction
"I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"Помню, как в предзимнюю пору холодом, льдом уже схватывало грязь на тропе, и грязь будто засахаривалась, как варенье."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
"If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever."-Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales
4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
By: Mary Beard
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Demons
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.30
Format: 733 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0679734511. (ISBN13: 9780679734512) Inspired by the true story of a… read more
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"God is the pain of the fear of death"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
"...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons
6. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
By: Joseph J. Ellis
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The prizewinning author of Founding Brothersand American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
7. The Camp of the Saints
By: Norman R. Shapiro , Jean Raspail
3.63
Format: 416 pages,
By the year 2000 there will on present projections be seven billion people swarming on the surface … read more
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8. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- nonfiction
9. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Rubiconand other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly… read more
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10. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
By: Walter Kaufmann
3.75
Format: 160 pages,
This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Wal… read more
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11. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
By: Stephen Kotkin
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that … read more
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12. The Last Light of the Sun
By: Guy Gavriel Kay
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In his eagerly awaited new novel, Guy Gavriel Kay turns his gaze to the northlands, brilliantly evo… read more
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13. 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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14. Empire of the Summer Moon
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.23
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more
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"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon
15. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more
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16. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
By: Douglas Murray
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Strange Death of Europeis a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the ac… read more
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17. A History of the Arab Peoples
By: Albert Hourani
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, polit… read more
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18. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
By: Laurence Bergreen
4.67
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year… read more
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19. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Dan Jones
4.41
Format: 636 pages, Hardcover
An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
20. 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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- germany
- nonfiction
21. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
22. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
By: Edward Dolnick
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more
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- nonfiction
"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
23. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
By: Douglas Murray
4.21
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more
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- nonfiction
24. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
4.21
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more
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25. Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
By: Jeff Fynn-Paul
4.09
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
A renowned historian debunks current distortion and myths about European colonialism in the New Wor… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
By: Nigel Biggar
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire … read more
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27. The Ugly American
By: William J. Lederer
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A piercing exposé of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American capt… read more
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28. Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
By: Domenico Losurdo
4.64
Format: 1076 pages, ebook
Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, a… read more
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29. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany: 1890 - 1990 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (Volume 2)
By: Steven E. Aschheim
3.57
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The twentieth century has seen countless attempts to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche f… read more
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30. Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
By: Peter Fritzsche
3.76
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
This unsettling and illuminating history reveals how Germany's fractured republic gave way to the T… read more
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- germany
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31. In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
By: Bruce Gilley
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, cont… read more
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"The myth of “artificial boundaries"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Berlin conference has been subject to a relentless campaign of debunking by modern intellectuals. One claim they make is that the assembled delegates “carved up"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Spirit of Berlin was embodied in two principles. First, colonial powers, whatever else they did, had a responsibility to improve the lives of native populations."-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
"The Spirit of Berlin was embodied in two principles. First, colonial powers, whatever else they did, had a responsibility to improve the lives of native populations. The second principle insisted tha…"-Bruce Gilley, In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
