A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Histories of Economic Life)
By: David Todd
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century …
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. The Crimean War: A History
By: Orlando Figes
4.06
Format: 575 pages, Hardcover
From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account… read more
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- european history
"Each power entered the Crimean War with its own motives. Nationalism and imperial rivalries combined with religious interests."-Orlando Figes, The Crimean War: A History
3. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
By: Adam Tooze
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
4. The Princesse de Clèves
By: Madame de La Fayette
3.00
Format: 508 pages, Paperback
This new translation of The Princesse de Clevesalso includes two shorter works also attributed to M… read more
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- france
5. Britannicus
By: Jean Racine
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Une mere autoritaire et possessive, un fils sournois et pervers, un vertueux demi-frere par allianc… read more
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6. Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
By: Eugen Weber
3.88
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more a… read more
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7. Dojoji et autres nouvelles
By: Yukio Mishima , None
4.62
Format: 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback
De l'univers des geishas aux rites sacrificiels des samourais, de la ceremonie du the a la boutique… read more
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8. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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- history
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- european history
9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
10. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
11. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.23
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more
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- european history
12. Une sortie honorable
By: Éric Vuillard
3.80
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
La guerre d'Indochine est l'une des plus longues guerres modernes. Pourtant, dans nos manuels scola… read more
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- france
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13. Mahmoud ou la montée des eaux
By: Antoine Wauters
4.12
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Syrie. Un vieil homme rame à bord d'une barque, seul au milieu d'une immense étendue d'eau. En dess… read more
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"Ojalá pudieran salvar el presente los versos que escribimos en el pasado"-Antoine Wauters, Mahmoud ou la montée des eaux
14. Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism
By: John Foot
3.75
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a coun… read more
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15. Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions
By: Maurizio Isabella
4.25
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s… read more
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16. The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
By: Owen White
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The surprising story of the wine industry’s role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empi… read more
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17. A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Histories of Economic Life)
By: David Todd
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century … read more
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- nonfiction
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18. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
19. Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Theory in Forms)
By: Muriam Haleh Davis
4.23
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how … read more
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20. 25 Days To Aden: The Unknown Story of Arabian Elite Forces at War
By: Michael Knights
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
25 Days to Aden is the story of how in a week in 2015 the Gulf States pulled together a ten-nation… read more
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