6 Best classics books like The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre

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The French Revolution

By: Georges Lefebvre

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combi…

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1. Jacques Lacan (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

By: Sean Homer

3.89

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
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2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • classics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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3. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more

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  • politics
  • france
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Another Day of Life

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent hi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • classics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Richard Maxwell

3.87

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval … read more

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  • classics
"We'll start to forget a place once we left it"

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Tell the Wind and the Fire where to stop; not me."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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10. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
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11. Event

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of 'event', in the s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. The Radetzky March

By: Joseph Roth , Michael Hofmann

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the r… read more

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  • classics
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13. 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
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

14. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Russian Revolution 1917-1932

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This provocative and eminently readable work looks at the many upheavals of the Russian Revolution … read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

16. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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17. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. The Third Reich in Power (The History of the Third Reich, #2)

By: Richard J. Evans

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implaca… read more

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19. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

By: Max Weber , Michael D. Coe , Talcott Parsons , None

3.99

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The Protestant ethic -- a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organiz… read more

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20. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat

By: J. Sakai

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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21. The Emperor

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , None , None

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distingui… read more

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22. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

By: Alain Badiou , Peter Hallward

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agen… read more

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23. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

By: غسان كنفاني , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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24. 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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25. Black Skin, White Masks

By: Frantz Fanon , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more

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26. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

By: Simon Schama

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Instead of a dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital & inventive, infatuated … read more

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27. A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

By: China Miéville

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

China Miéville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Like the authors of the Manifesto, I don’t believe that the generalised mass misery of the world, all the unbearable checklists of deprivation and depravity, is irrelevant, nor unrelated to the econo…"

-China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

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28. Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela

By: George Ciccariello-Maher

4.01

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swep… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

By: Perry Anderson

3.98

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birt… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The French Revolution

By: Georges Lefebvre

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combi… read more

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  • classics
  • history
  • politics
  • french revolution
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • reference

16 Best history books like The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Another Day of Life

Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska , William Brand , None

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

Slavoj Žižek

3.50

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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

3.94

Transform Your Habits

For Marx (Radical Thinkers)

Louis Althusser

3.93

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays

Richard Hofstadter

4.29

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