The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
Posted May 25, 2021
From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind
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Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties (Perennial Classics)
Posted May 25, 2021
The classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
Posted May 25, 2021
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1950, the Golden Age, 1950–1973, and the Landslide, 1973–1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
Posted May 25, 2021
The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a
The Age Of Revolution: 1789 – 1848
Posted May 25, 2021
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast
The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
Posted May 25, 2021
In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between
The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
Posted May 25, 2021
Eric Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Posted May 25, 2021
Deemed “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week and with more than 300,000 copies in print, Daniel Yergin’s Pulitzer Prize–winning account of
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
Posted May 25, 2021
Peter Watson’s hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to
A Study of History (Abridged and Illustrated)
Posted May 25, 2021
“This one-volume 576-page edition of A STUDY OF HISTORY puts the essence of the great work into easily accessible and most attractive form. (The original
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life; 1500 to the Present
Posted May 25, 2021
Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous
The Crisis of the Old Order: 1919-1933 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 1)
Posted May 25, 2021
The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933, volume one of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, is the
The Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935 (The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 2)
Posted May 25, 2021
The Coming of the New Deal, 1933-1935, volume two of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, describes Franklin
The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936 (The Age of Roosevelt Vol. 3)
Posted May 25, 2021
The Politics of Upheaval, 1935-1936, volume three of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s Age of Roosevelt series, concentrates on the turbulent
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Posted May 25, 2021
From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary