The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
By: Tonio Andrade
4.30
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China…
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1. Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors
By: David Starkey
3.93
Format: 362 pages, Paperback
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2. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
By: Adam Smith
3.88
Format: 1076 pages, Paperback
Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more
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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
3. The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949
By: S.C.M. Paine
3.31
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 shows that the Western treatment of World War II, the Second Sino-Japa… read more
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4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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5. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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6. Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans
By: Brian M. Fagan
3.33
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans?not only the creators of the stunning cave painti… read more
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7. 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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8. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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9. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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10. The Borgias: Power and Fortune (Italian Histories)
By: Paul Strathern
4.07
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family―a world of saints, corrupt popes, and deprav… read more
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11. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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12. Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
By: Eckart Frahm
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its … read more
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13. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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14. Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
By: Walter Scheidel
4.03
Format: 670 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world The … read more
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15. Viking Britain
By: Thomas Williams
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
By: Tonio Andrade
4.30
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
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17. Great State: China and the World
By: Timothy Brook
3.86
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with th… read more
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18. Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
By: Roger Crowley
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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19. How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800
By: Jonathan Scott
3.63
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Burma Wars: 1824-1886 (Conflicts of Empire)
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3.89
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Between 1824 and 1885 Britain and Burma fought in three deadly struggles. The first was the long… read more
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