6 Best history books like Globalization and War by Tarak Barkawi

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Globalization and War

By: Tarak Barkawi

3.89

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

War doesn't just tear nations apart―it brings peoples and places closer together, providing a new l…

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Cover of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges

1. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

By: Chris Hedges

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment… read more

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"There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege."

-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

"The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living."

-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

"Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have ma…"

-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

"Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a socie…"

-Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

Cover of What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush by Hal Brands

2. What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush

By: Hal Brands

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In… read more

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Cover of The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis

3. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more

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4. The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War

By: Robert Bevan

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1… read more

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Cover of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

5. Sea of Tranquility

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.07

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more

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"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."

-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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6. The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace

By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin

4.20

Format: 656 pages, ebook

A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Col… read more

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Cover of American Pendulum: Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Christopher M Hemmer

7. American Pendulum: Recurring Debates in U.S. Grand Strategy (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

By: Christopher M Hemmer

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As new presidential administrations come into power, they each bring their own approach to foreign … read more

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Cover of Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World by Jairus Victor Grove

8. Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World

By: Jairus Victor Grove

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ec… read more

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Cover of Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (Modern War Studies) by William A. Taylor

9. Military Service and American Democracy: From World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (Modern War Studies)

By: William A. Taylor

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"When I became secretary of defense," Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would… read more

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10. Globalization and War

By: Tarak Barkawi

3.89

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

War doesn't just tear nations apart―it brings peoples and places closer together, providing a new l… read more

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