5 Top world history books like The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by Eric J. Hobsbawm

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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he…

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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more

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  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"

-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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2. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Culture and Imperialism

By: None

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-ove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

By: Tony Judt

4.37

Format: 933 pages, Paperback

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of th… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
"Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men."

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all too clear, exacerbated it. If the USSR faced an intractable set of national minorities, this was in …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"The imposition of a Russian rather than a German solution cut Europe’s vulnerable eastern half away from the body of the continent. At the time this was not a matter of great concern to western Europ…"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

"Maastricht had three significant side-effects. One of them was the unforeseen boost it gave to NATO. Under the restrictive terms of the Treaty it was clear (as the French at least had intended) that …"

-Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

6. The Assassination Of Julius Caesar: A People's History Of Ancient Rome

By: Michael Parenti

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • world history
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7. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz , Karl Polanyi , None

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and … read more

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  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • 19th century
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • economics

9. What Is History?

By: Edward Hallett Carr

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Based on The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at University of Cambridge, January-March… read more

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10. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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11. Capital, Vol 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

By: Karl Marx , Ben Fowkes , Ernest Mandel

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close stud… read more

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12. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more

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13. Groundings with My Brothers

By: Walter Rodney

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

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14. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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15. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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16. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • economics
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  • nonfiction
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

17. The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century

By: Immanuel Wallerstein , Edward Shorter , Charles Tilly

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

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18. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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19. 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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  • world history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • economics
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20. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution

By: Walter Rodney

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A previously unpublished collection of Rodney's essays on Marxism, spanning his engagement with of … read more

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  • economics
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13 must-read history books like The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by Eric J. Hobsbawm

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Culture and Imperialism

None

4.44

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart A. Reid

4.40

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