The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
By: Adam Clulow
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Jerry Bentley Prize 2015* The Dutch East India Company was a unique, hybrid organization acting …
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4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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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
2. 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
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3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
4. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
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3.32
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4.09
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3.44
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7. Iran: A Modern History
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3.84
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3.99
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4.48
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10. The Republic
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3.96
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
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11. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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4.20
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12. The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
By: Adam Clulow
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Jerry Bentley Prize 2015* The Dutch East India Company was a unique, hybrid organization acting … read more
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