6 Top political science books like Democracy by Charles Tilly

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Democracy

By: Charles Tilly

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Charles Tilly's Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democrati…

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1. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

By: Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington

3.81

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This book explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives."

-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

"... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power."

-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

"Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating us…"

-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

"Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic par…"

-Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

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2. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By: Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framew… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"يقول ريجيه ديبراي Régis Debray أن الدين ليس (أفيون الشعوب) وإنما (فيتامين الضعفاء)"

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

"It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West."

-Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

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3. The Myth of Sisyphus

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien , James Wood , Justin Obrien

4.18

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"A fate is not a punishment."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"there are truths but no truth"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"To will is to stir up paradoxes"

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

"Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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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
  • history
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5. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

By: Johan Huizinga

3.80

Format: None pages,

Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western soc… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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6. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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7. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • philosophy
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8. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1944-45

By: Ian Kershaw

4.14

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. On Chesil Beach

By: Ian McEwan

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more

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11. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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12. The Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"The truth brings no man a fortune"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

13. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have reinforced the central importance of … read more

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14. Ulysses

By: James Joyce

3.75

Format: 925 pages, Paperback

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more

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"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

15. Perpetual Peace

By: Immanuel Kant

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Vers la paix perpetuelle parut en 1795. L'ouvrage, qui eut un grand succes, venait clore un mouveme… read more

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16. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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17. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

18. Politics

By: Aristotle

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it br… read more

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19. Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

By: Lee McIntyre

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings hav… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"Turite teisę į savo nuomonę, tačiau ne į savo faktus."

-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

"When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even."

-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

"Our inherent cognitive biases make us ripe for manipulation and exploitation by those who have an agenda to push, especially if they can discredit all other sources of information."

-Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

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20. The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

By: Yascha Mounk

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"We can no longer assume that liberal democracy is the wave of the future... This splendid book is … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology
"In this book, a liberal is somebody who is committed to basic values like freedom of speech, the separation of powers, or the protection of individual rights."

-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

"In each of these places, they took strikingly similar steps to consolidate their power: they ratcheted up tensions with perceived enemies at home and abroad; packed courts and electoral commissions w…"

-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

"Populists are highly skilled at weaponizing these forms of resentment: their rhetoric simultaneously aims to turn the growing anger at affluent people against the ruling elite and to turn the growing…"

-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

"Unnoticed by most political scientists, a form of undemocratic liberalism has taken root in North America and Western Europe. In this form of government, procedural niceties are carefully followed (m…"

-Yascha Mounk, The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It

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21. Democracy

By: Charles Tilly

3.61

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Charles Tilly's Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democrati… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • sociology

12 Best history books like Democracy by Charles Tilly

Transform Your Habits

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Jean-François Lyotard , Brian Massumi , Geoff Bennington

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

Samuel P. Huntington

3.77

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Johan Huizinga

3.80

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15 Best classics books like History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner

Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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