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The Dictators
Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia
2026 || Paperback || Richard Overy || Penguin Books
Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest war in all history.
Citizens
A Chronicle of The French Revolution
2020 || Paperback || Simon Schama || Penguin Books
One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.
America, Empire of Liberty
A New History
2010 || Paperback || DR David Reynolds || Penguin Books
It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen, how the country that offered liberty and opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labour of bl...
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
2018 || Paperback || Walter Scheidel || Princeton University Press
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
The "Four Horsemen" of leveling-mass-mobilization warf...
The End of the Megamachine
A Brief History of a Failing Civilization
2020 || Paperback || Fabian Scheidler || John Hunt Publishing
The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states, capital accumulation and ideological power have been steering both ecosystems and societies to the brink of collapse. With the growing instability of the Megamachine in the 21st century, new dangers open up as well as new possibilities for sys...
The Human Past / 4th edition
World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
2018 || Paperback || Chris Scarre || Thames & Hudson Ltd
Here is a new, fourth edition of this authoritative introductory survey of world prehistory, spanning the past 3,000,000 years and written by a team of twenty-four expert authors. This edition has been radically updated to be more thematic and accessible: chapters are connected by new key themes boxes (climate change, domestication, migration, social inequality and urbanism), which link global regions and encourage big-picture thinking. The text has been streamlined and the book's design comp...
A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
2019 || Paperback || Friso Wielenga || Bloomsbury Publishing
This is the most comprehensive history of the Netherlands available in the English language. It surveys Dutch history from the 16th century, when the nation took shape as a geographical, administrative and political entity, right through to the Netherlands of today. Examining domestic politics and wider international contexts, as well as economic and cultural history, Friso Wielenga provides a varied and in-depth investigation that will lead to a rich understanding of the country's past.
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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
2019 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage Publishing
Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
The Battle for Syria / 2nd edition
International Rivalry in the New Middle East
2020 || Paperback || Christopher Phillips || Yale University Press
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."-Patrick Cockburn, Independent Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the fray. But in this book Christopher Phillips shows the crucial roles that were played b...
A History of Anthropology / 2nd edition
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Hylland Eriksen e.a. || Pluto Press
This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures is also considered.
The book provides an unparalleled account of theoretical developments in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, ...