21 Top history books like The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922 by Ryan Gingeras

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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

By: Ryan Gingeras

3.93

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 19…

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1. The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999

By: Misha Glenny

4.09

Format: 752 pages, Paperback

This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives reade… read more

Similar categories in Misha Glenny's The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers 1804 - 1999 book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Jared Diamond

3.93

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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3. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

By: William Dalrymple

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

By: Bernie Sanders

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"

-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

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5. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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6. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

Similar categories in William Dalrymple's The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

Similar categories in Tom Holland's Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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8. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski

9. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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10. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

By: Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Format: 428 pages, Hardcover

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Evangelista's Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
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12. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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13. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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14. Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

By: Ian Black

4.20

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle… read more

Similar categories in Ian Black's Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

By: Helen Rappaport

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

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16. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

By: Adam Tooze

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex … read more

Similar categories in Adam Tooze's Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
"What has made central bankers into the exemplar of modern crisis-fighting is the vacuum created by the evisceration of organized labor, the absence of inflationary pressure, and more broadly, the lac…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

"Despite the successful suppression campaign in February, the coronavirus crisis of 2020 could easily have been a major liability for Xi's regime. Instead, it became an occasion for what has been aptl…"

-Adam Tooze, Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

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17. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

Similar categories in Julian T. Jackson's France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
Cover of The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World by Gideon Rachman

18. The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World

By: Gideon Rachman

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new national… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Durable political systems ultimately rely on institutions, not individuals."

-Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World

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19. Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium

By: Anthony Kaldellis

4.38

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Kaldellis's Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium book and Ryan Gingeras's The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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21. The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

By: Ryan Gingeras

3.93

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 19… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history

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