The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
By: David Edgerton
4.04
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old , a bold reassessment o…
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1. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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2. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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- european history
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- history
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3. The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
By: Robert Fisk
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an awa… read more
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4. The Anatomy of Fascism
By: Robert O. Paxton
2.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more
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5. 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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6. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
By: Adam Tooze
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more
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7. The Invention of Tradition
By: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper , David Cannadine , Eric J. Hobsbawm , Prys Morgan , None , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanction… read more
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8. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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9. The Road to Wigan Pier
By: George Orwell , Richard Hoggart
3.92
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
In the 1930s, commissioned by a left-wing book club, Orwell went to the industrial areas of norther… read more
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- british literature
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- economics
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"...there is always a temptation to think that industrialism is harmless so long as it is clean and orderly."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is ‘the puritan’s opium’."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are."-George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
10. 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
11. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
By: Adam Tooze
None
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One… read more
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12. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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13. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
14. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- european history
"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
15. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
By: Antony Beevor
3.90
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more
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16. The History of Philosophy
By: A.C. Grayling
4.08
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some o… read more
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- unfinished
17. Blue Ruin
By: Hari Kunzru
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more
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18. Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
By: Richard Overy
4.29
Format: 982 pages, Kindle Edition
'Overy has written many fine books, but Blood and Ruins is his masterpiece. It puts all previous si… read more
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19. The Rise and Fall of the British Nation
By: David Edgerton
4.04
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old , a bold reassessment o… read more
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- european history
- economics
20. Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
By: Owen Hatherley
4.37
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
A polemical history of municipal socialism in London and an argument for turning this capitalist ca… read more
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21. The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
By: Brett Christophers
4.10
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the bigges… read more
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