European colonialism
description: settlement, conquest, and colonization by Europeans
315 results
Globalists
by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
science proved “the median cultural superiority of White over Negro.”145 Yet they rarely note that Buckley’s editorial is couched in a defense of European colonialism in Africa. Buckley defended British actions for maintaining colonial control in Kenya (which continued until 1964) as an example to the U.S. South that
The 9/11 Wars
by Jason Burke · 1 Sep 2011 · 885pp · 271,563 words
France allied with the Ottomans to defend Constantinople against a Russian (Orthodox) Empire demonized by Western European clergy as ‘impure, demoralising and intolerant’.7 As European colonial armies pushed deeper into the Islamic world – the French into what was to become Algeria, the Spanish into Morocco, the British into the Asian subcontinent
On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World
by Jason Burke · 21 May 2025 · 323pp · 108,377 words
non-Muslim ‘barbarian’ Mongols. By failing to understand how decades of clumsy and cynical Western interventions in the Middle East, as well as centuries of European colonialism, were viewed locally, the new rulers of Iraq put themselves at a massive disadvantage. In addition, their almost deliberate ignorance of local history meant that
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West
by Shaun Walker · 15 Apr 2025 · 465pp · 155,902 words
trips to Africa, where he lived among Tuareg tribes and traveled through the Belgian Congo. He went to gain intelligence on the mood in the European colonies for his bosses in Moscow and to disappear from Western Europe when he feared he might be exposed. He used various guises to win trust
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
by Simone Browne · 1 Oct 2015 · 326pp · 84,180 words
ordered racially by way of surveillance depends on space and time and is subject to change, but most often upholds negating strategies that first accompanied European colonial expansion and transatlantic slavery that sought to structure social relations and institutions in ways that privilege whiteness. Racializing surveillance is not static or only applied
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
by Max Boot · 9 Jan 2018 · 972pp · 259,764 words
Filipinos as “our little brown brothers” and ordinary soldiers called them “googoos” or “niggers”), but it was also in important respects more liberal than contemporary European colonial regimes. Washington did not allow American companies to set up agricultural concerns to exploit local labor and land such as the vast rubber plantations owned
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
by Simon Winchester · 31 Dec 1985 · 382pp · 127,510 words
the Isle of Man, which are not colonies, but direct dependencies of the Crown and lie outside the United Kingdom. Gibraltar is the only unquestioned European colony that remains, and is definitely the only British Imperial possession that there ever has been on the continent of Europe itself.) It took the best
The Rough Guide to Australia (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides · 14 Oct 2023 · 1,955pp · 521,661 words
, dubbed the “lightbox”, was grafted onto the eastern Woolloomooloo facade to contain the gallery’s Asian collection. As well as a wonderful permanent collection spanning European, colonial, First Nations and contemporary art, there’s a strong programme of temporary exhibits. A huge $344m expansion – the Sydney Modern Project – will transform the surrounding
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
by Benjamin Breen · 16 Jan 2024 · 384pp · 118,573 words
colored pencils. They sought out the most remote and unstudied societies they could find—the so-called unpacified peoples at the farthest periphery of the European colonial empires. Though they were steadfastly opposed to imperialism, Mead and Fortune carried some mental baggage with them, too. They imagined their work in wholly benevolent
The scramble for Africa, 1876-1912
by Thomas Pakenham · 19 Nov 1991 · 1,194pp · 371,889 words
he was shrewd enough to see that in the long run the conflict between Europeans and Africans would be impossible to reconcile. To succeed, a European colony demanded a revolution in African society. The Germans wanted land for settlement, cattle for export, gold and diamonds for mining – and Africans to work for
The Library: A Fragile History
by Arthur Der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree · 14 Oct 2021 · 457pp · 173,326 words
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever · 19 Apr 2021 · 366pp · 110,374 words
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns · 4 Sep 2017 · 1,433pp · 315,911 words
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
by Lawrence Wright · 15 Sep 2014 · 503pp · 126,355 words
Lonely Planet Sri Lanka
by Lonely Planet
Left Behind
by Paul Collier · 6 Aug 2024 · 299pp · 92,766 words
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends
by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas · 19 Jan 2010 · 492pp · 70,082 words
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama · 11 Apr 2011 · 740pp · 217,139 words
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
by Jason Sharman · 5 Feb 2019 · 265pp · 71,143 words
The Future Is Asian
by Parag Khanna · 5 Feb 2019 · 496pp · 131,938 words
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
by Paul Morland · 10 Jan 2019 · 405pp · 121,999 words
The Rough Guide to Sri Lanka
by Rough Guides · 21 Sep 2018
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
by Alex von Tunzelmann · 7 Jul 2021 · 337pp · 87,236 words
Cuba: An American History
by Ada Ferrer · 6 Sep 2021 · 723pp · 211,892 words
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
by Rashid Khalidi · 28 Jan 2020 · 413pp · 120,506 words
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
by William Easterly · 4 Mar 2014 · 483pp · 134,377 words
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
by Noa Tishby · 5 Apr 2021 · 338pp · 101,967 words
Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants
by Jane Goodall · 1 Apr 2013 · 452pp · 135,790 words
Frommer's Caribbean 2010
by Christina Paulette Colón, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince and John Marino · 2 Jan 1989
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
by Nicholas Ostler · 23 Nov 2010 · 484pp · 120,507 words
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
by Noam Chomsky · 24 Oct 2014
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor · 1 Feb 2018 · 370pp · 111,129 words
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
by Geoffrey Parker · 29 Apr 2013 · 1,773pp · 486,685 words
Heaven's Command (Pax Britannica)
by Jan Morris · 22 Dec 2010 · 699pp · 192,704 words
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson · 1 Jan 2002 · 469pp · 146,487 words
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix · 1 Jan 2000 · 1,056pp · 275,211 words
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody
by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay · 14 Jul 2020 · 378pp · 107,957 words
Imperial Legacies
by Jeremy Black; · 14 Jul 2019 · 264pp · 74,688 words
Dawn of Detroit
by Tiya Miles · 13 Sep 2017 · 415pp · 127,092 words
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
by Rashid Khalidi · 31 Aug 2006 · 357pp · 112,950 words
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
by Sathnam Sanghera · 28 Jan 2021 · 430pp · 111,038 words
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
by Kim Wagner · 26 Mar 2019
Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith · 2 Mar 2019
Insight Guides South America (Travel Guide eBook)
by Insight Guides · 15 Dec 2022
Scotland Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis From the Middle East
by Gershom Gorenberg · 19 Jan 2021 · 555pp · 163,712 words
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
by Edwin Frank · 19 Nov 2024 · 467pp · 168,546 words
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten · 1 Jan 2001
Among the Islands
by Tim Flannery · 13 Dec 2011 · 228pp · 69,642 words
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
by William Easterly · 1 Mar 2006
The Rough Guide to Egypt (Rough Guide to...)
by Dan Richardson and Daniel Jacobs · 1 Feb 2013
Why geography matters: three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism
by Harm J. De Blij · 15 Nov 2007 · 481pp · 121,300 words
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History
by Greg Woolf · 14 May 2020
One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
Around the World in 80 Trees
by Jonathan Drori · 28 May 2018
China into Africa: trade, aid, and influence
by Robert I. Rotberg · 15 Nov 2008 · 651pp · 135,818 words
Legacy of Empire
by Gardner Thompson · 427pp · 114,531 words
1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
by Stephen R. Bown · 15 Feb 2011 · 295pp · 92,670 words
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 5 Oct 2020 · 583pp · 182,990 words
Collapse
by Jared Diamond · 25 Apr 2011 · 753pp · 233,306 words
Civilization: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson · 28 Feb 2011 · 790pp · 150,875 words
Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 9 Mar 2000 · 1,015pp · 170,908 words
When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques · 12 Nov 2009 · 859pp · 204,092 words
Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
by Steve Inskeep · 12 Oct 2011 · 364pp · 102,225 words
Europe: A History
by Norman Davies · 1 Jan 1996
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
Frommer's California 2009
by Matthew Poole, Harry Basch, Mark Hiss and Erika Lenkert · 2 Jan 2009
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson · 20 Mar 2012 · 547pp · 172,226 words
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond · 2 Jan 2008 · 801pp · 242,104 words
Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
by Derek Bickerton · 4 Mar 2008
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
by Paul Kenyon · 1 Jan 2018 · 513pp · 156,022 words
Empire of Guns
by Priya Satia · 10 Apr 2018 · 927pp · 216,549 words
"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration
by Aviva Chomsky · 23 Apr 2018 · 219pp · 62,816 words
White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
by Sharon Rotbard · 1 Jan 2005 · 351pp · 94,104 words
The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
by Steven Radelet · 10 Nov 2015 · 437pp · 115,594 words
Culture and Imperialism
by Edward W. Said · 29 May 1994 · 549pp · 170,495 words
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
by Vincent Bevins · 18 May 2020 · 393pp · 115,178 words
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
by Giovanni Arrighi · 15 Mar 2010 · 7,371pp · 186,208 words
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
by John Darwin · 23 Sep 2009
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
by John Darwin · 12 Feb 2013
Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky · 7 Apr 2008 · 186pp · 57,798 words
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson · 28 Sep 2001
The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
by Wikileaks · 24 Aug 2015 · 708pp · 176,708 words
I You We Them
by Dan Gretton
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
by Andrés Reséndez · 11 Apr 2016 · 532pp · 162,509 words
Alcohol: A History
by Rod Phillips · 14 Oct 2014 · 531pp · 161,785 words
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett · 31 Oct 1994 · 1,293pp · 357,735 words
War Without Mercy: PACIFIC WAR
by John Dower · 11 Apr 1986 · 516pp · 159,734 words
Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug
by Augustine Sedgewick · 6 Apr 2020 · 668pp · 159,523 words
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000
by Paul Kennedy · 15 Jan 1989 · 1,477pp · 311,310 words
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
by Jason Hickel · 3 May 2017 · 332pp · 106,197 words
A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil From Ancient Times to the First World War
by Keith Fisher · 3 Aug 2022
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
by Ian Black · 2 Nov 2017 · 674pp · 201,633 words
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
by James Poskett · 22 Mar 2022 · 564pp · 168,696 words
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words
Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
by Jeremy Paxman · 6 Oct 2011 · 427pp · 124,692 words
The Rough Guide to Morocco (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides · 23 Mar 2019 · 1,058pp · 302,829 words
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
by Oded Galor · 22 Mar 2022 · 426pp · 83,128 words
Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
by Walter Scheidel · 14 Oct 2019 · 1,014pp · 237,531 words
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
by Hans Kundnani · 16 Aug 2023 · 198pp · 54,815 words
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · 23 Sep 2019 · 809pp · 237,921 words
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
by Maya Goodfellow · 5 Nov 2019 · 273pp · 83,802 words
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
by William Dalrymple · 9 Sep 2019 · 812pp · 205,147 words
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words
Lonely Planet Iceland (Travel Guide)
by Lonely Planet, Carolyn Bain and Alexis Averbuck · 31 Mar 2015
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
by Tim Marshall · 14 Oct 2021 · 383pp · 105,387 words
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr · 19 Feb 2019
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore · 16 Oct 2017 · 335pp · 89,924 words
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber and David Wengrow · 18 Oct 2021
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
by Stephen Graham · 30 Oct 2009 · 717pp · 150,288 words
The Economic Weapon
by Nicholas Mulder · 15 Mar 2021
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy
by Robert B. Zoellick · 3 Aug 2020
A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins · 1 Jan 2006 · 497pp · 123,718 words
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
by Victor Davis Hanson · 16 Oct 2017 · 908pp · 262,808 words
Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
by James Suzman · 10 Jul 2017
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty · 10 Mar 2014 · 935pp · 267,358 words
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby · 22 Dec 2009 · 540pp · 168,921 words
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher · 2 Jul 2007 · 341pp · 111,525 words
The Cold War: A New History
by John Lewis Gaddis · 1 Jan 2005 · 392pp · 106,532 words
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce · 20 Apr 2017 · 223pp · 58,732 words
Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis · 1 Mar 2006 · 232pp
Year 501
by Noam Chomsky · 19 Jan 2016
The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry From Crop to the Last Drop
by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger · 1 Jan 1999 · 230pp · 62,294 words
The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt · 18 Oct 2000 · 353pp · 355 words
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by Branko Milanovic · 10 Apr 2016 · 312pp · 91,835 words
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by Michael Scott Moore · 23 Jul 2018 · 476pp · 124,973 words
Lonely Planet Jamaica
by Lonely Planet
Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States
by Francis Fukuyama · 1 Jan 2006
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama · 29 Sep 2014 · 828pp · 232,188 words
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
by Pankaj Mishra · 3 Sep 2012
The Cold War: Stories From the Big Freeze
by Bridget Kendall · 14 May 2017 · 559pp · 178,279 words
Hunger: The Oldest Problem
by Martin Caparros · 14 Jan 2020 · 684pp · 212,486 words
The Ages of Globalization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs · 2 Jun 2020
The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams · 12 Sep 2018 · 1,132pp · 156,379 words
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
by Philip Coggan · 6 Feb 2020 · 524pp · 155,947 words
Your Computer Is on Fire
by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip · 9 Mar 2021 · 661pp · 156,009 words
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
by Thomas Sowell · 31 Aug 2015 · 877pp · 182,093 words
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
by Dambisa Moyo · 17 Mar 2009 · 225pp · 61,388 words
The Abandonment of the West
by Michael Kimmage · 21 Apr 2020 · 378pp · 121,495 words
Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism
by Elizabeth Becker · 16 Apr 2013 · 570pp · 158,139 words
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky · 30 Jun 1998 · 239pp · 64,987 words
Lonely Planet Iceland
by Lonely Planet
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
by John Cassidy · 12 May 2025 · 774pp · 238,244 words
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
by Tao Leigh. Goffe · 14 Mar 2025 · 441pp · 122,013 words
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
by Charles Emmerson · 14 Oct 2019 · 950pp · 297,713 words
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
by Branko Milanovic · 23 Sep 2019
A Modern History of Hong Kong: 1841-1997
by Steve Tsang · 14 Aug 2007 · 691pp · 169,563 words
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
by Ian Kershaw · 29 Aug 2018 · 736pp · 233,366 words
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)
by Tim Marshall · 10 Oct 2016 · 306pp · 79,537 words
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by Steve Coll · 29 Mar 2009 · 769pp · 224,916 words
The end of history and the last man
by Francis Fukuyama · 28 Feb 2006 · 446pp · 578 words
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham · 27 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
GDP: The World’s Most Powerful Formula and Why It Must Now Change
by Ehsan Masood · 4 Mar 2021 · 303pp · 74,206 words
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
by Alex Wright · 6 Jun 2014
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
by Sven Beckert · 2 Dec 2014 · 1,000pp · 247,974 words
The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
by Kees Van der Pijl · 2 Jun 2014 · 572pp · 134,335 words
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
by Vikram Chandra · 7 Nov 2013 · 239pp · 64,812 words
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
by Lizzie Collingham · 1 Jan 2011 · 927pp · 236,812 words
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell · 1 Jan 2000 · 850pp · 254,117 words
Understanding Power
by Noam Chomsky · 26 Jul 2010
Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor
by John Kay · 24 May 2004 · 436pp · 76 words
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
by Norman Stone · 15 Feb 2010 · 851pp · 247,711 words
Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
by Howard P. Segal · 20 May 2012 · 299pp · 19,560 words
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage · 1 Jan 2005 · 231pp · 72,656 words
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind
by Jan Lucassen · 26 Jul 2021 · 869pp · 239,167 words
1491
by Charles C. Mann · 8 Aug 2005 · 666pp · 189,883 words
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias · 19 Aug 2019 · 458pp · 116,832 words
Artificial Whiteness
by Yarden Katz
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by Tim Harford · 1 Jan 2008 · 250pp · 88,762 words
Lonely Planet Scotland
by Lonely Planet
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
by Chris Smaje · 14 Aug 2020 · 375pp · 105,586 words
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah · 27 Aug 2018 · 285pp · 83,682 words
Lonely Planet Scotland
by Lonely Planet
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View
by William MacAskill · 31 Aug 2022 · 451pp · 125,201 words
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 10 Sep 2018 · 745pp · 207,187 words
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
by Branko Milanovic · 9 Oct 2023
Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization
by Tim Queeney · 11 Aug 2025 · 264pp · 88,907 words
Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life
by Scott. Branson · 14 Jun 2022 · 198pp · 63,612 words
In Europe
by Geert Mak · 15 Sep 2004
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
by David S. Landes · 14 Sep 1999 · 1,060pp · 265,296 words
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
by John Darwin · 5 Feb 2008 · 650pp · 203,191 words
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Michael B. Oren · 2 Jun 2003 · 687pp · 209,474 words
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
by Peter Frankopan · 26 Aug 2015 · 1,042pp · 273,092 words
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
by Jared Diamond · 2 Jan 1991 · 436pp · 140,256 words
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
by Lynne Olson · 2 Feb 2010 · 564pp · 178,408 words
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
by Jared M. Diamond · 15 Jul 2005
The Chomsky Reader
by Noam Chomsky · 11 Sep 1987
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Edward L. Glaeser · 1 Jan 2011 · 598pp · 140,612 words
A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf · 27 Sep 2006
The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
by Sonia Shah
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein · 1 Jan 2008 · 1,351pp · 404,177 words
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
by Simon Winchester · 19 Jan 2021 · 486pp · 139,713 words
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
by David Rooney · 16 Aug 2021 · 306pp · 84,649 words
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
by David Christian · 21 May 2018 · 334pp · 100,201 words
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by Steven W. Thrasher · 1 Aug 2022 · 361pp · 110,233 words
Flight of the WASP
by Michael Gross · 562pp · 177,195 words
Armed Humanitarians
by Nathan Hodge · 1 Sep 2011 · 390pp · 119,527 words
The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century
by Rodrigo Aguilera · 10 Mar 2020 · 356pp · 106,161 words
1946: The Making of the Modern World
by Victor Sebestyen · 30 Sep 2014 · 476pp · 144,288 words
Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna · 4 Mar 2008 · 537pp · 158,544 words
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 1 Jan 2010 · 369pp · 94,588 words
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel · 14 Apr 2008
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
by Douglas Murray · 3 May 2017 · 420pp · 126,194 words
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan · 21 Sep 2009 · 589pp · 197,971 words
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
by Robert Lane Greene · 8 Mar 2011 · 319pp · 95,854 words
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
by David Edgerton · 27 Jun 2018
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
by Max Blumenthal · 27 Nov 2012 · 840pp · 224,391 words
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
by Tim Marshall · 21 Sep 2016 · 276pp · 78,061 words
The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman · 8 Jan 1997 · 717pp · 196,908 words
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
by Richard J. Evans · 31 Aug 2016 · 976pp · 329,519 words
The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad · 4 Sep 2017 · 846pp · 250,145 words
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari · 1 Jan 2011 · 447pp · 141,811 words
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
by Mark Kurlansky · 30 Dec 2003 · 538pp · 164,533 words
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
by David Abulafia · 2 Oct 2019 · 1,993pp · 478,072 words
The Rough Guide to Morocco
by Rough Guides
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Scott Anderson · 5 Aug 2013
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 words
Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge
by Ian Kumekawa · 6 May 2025 · 422pp · 112,638 words
The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
by Irene Yuan Sun · 16 Oct 2017 · 239pp · 62,311 words
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
by Robert D. Kaplan · 1 Jan 1988 · 233pp · 75,477 words
Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
by Michael Schuman · 8 Jun 2020
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