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10 best books like Opium Wars (W. Travis Hanes III): A History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev, Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon, Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, Huey: Spirit of the Panther, The History of King Richard III, Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization, Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Leonardo Da Vinci

A History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev
AuthorMark Steinberg
ISBN1565856333
It’s difficult to imagine a nation whose history is more compelling for Americans than that of Russia.

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, this was the nation against which we measured our own nation’s values and power and with whom war, if it ever came, could spell unimaginable catastrophe...
Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
AuthorSuzanne Desan
The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society - not just for France, but for all...
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0060598611
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean...
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
AuthorDavid Hilliard
ISBN1560258977
Huey P. Newton remains one of the most misunderstood political figures of the twentieth century. As cofounder and leader of the Black Panther Party for more than twenty years, Newton (1942-1989) was at the forefront of the radical political activism of the 1960s and '70s. Raised in poverty in Oakland,...
The History of King Richard III
AuthorThomas More
ISBN1843911078
Richard III’s reputation stands as one of the most evil men in history—a manipulating and murderous man who would stop at nothing to become king. Much of what modern scholarship knows of him stems from Thomas More’s critical biography, which itself proved the inspiration for Shakespeare’s...
Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
AuthorDavid Keys
ISBN0345408764
It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped...
Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology
AuthorMary Douglas
ISBN0415138264
First published over twenty five years ago, but with a new introduction and thoroughly updated.
Every natural symbol - derived from blood, breath or excrement - carries a social meaning and this work focuses on the ways in which any one culture makes its selections from body symbolism. Each person...
On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine
AuthorNicolas Rasmussen
ISBN0814776019
Life in the Fast Lane: The author on the CHE

Uppers. Crank. Bennies. Dexies. Greenies. Black Beauties. Purple Hearts. Crystal. Ice. And, of course, Speed. Whatever their street names at the moment, amphetamines have been an insistent force in American life since they were marketed as the...
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
AuthorCarole G. Silver
ISBN0195121996
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources...
Leonardo Da Vinci
AuthorKathleen Krull
For thirty years, the whole last half of his life, Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with unlocking the secrets of nature. His notebooks are the mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientist standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. Scrupulously...
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914
AuthorRichard Holmes
ISBN0007137532
From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. Sahib is a broad...
The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
AuthorPeter Linebaugh
ISBN1859845762
Peter Linebaugh’s groundbreaking history has become an inescapable part of any understanding of the rise of capitalism. In eighteenth-century London the spectacle of a hanging was not simply a form of punishing transgressors.

Rather it evidently served the most sinister purpose—for...
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
AuthorPatrick N. Allitt
ISBN1598035843
Audio CDs in three cases (parts 1, 2, and 3), accompanied by a "like new" course booklet. 36 lectures in all / 30 minutes per lecture. 18 audio CDs. Taught by Professor Patrick N. Allitt of Emory University.

At its peak in the early 20th century, Britain's empire was the largest in the history of...
The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
AuthorBenjamin R. Merkle
ISBN1595552529
The unlikely king who saved England.

Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.

Then,...
Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600 - 1850
AuthorLinda Colley
ISBN0385721463
In this path-breaking book Linda Colley reappraises the rise of the biggest empire in global history. Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of the...
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
AuthorRoy Porter
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven...
The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
AuthorHannah B. Harvey
ISBN1598039067
Money management can be intimidating. Fortunately, most of us only need to know a few basic principles to get our financial houses in order. Learn these principles in this comprehensive overview of what everyday people need to know to make good financial decisions. Using a scientific, evidence-based...
Argumentation: The Study Of Effective Reasoning
AuthorDavid Zarefsky
ISBN0251405826
Introducing Argumentation and Rhetoric
History of Argumentation Studies
Formal and Informal Argument
The Emergence of Controversy
Resolutions and Issues
Stasis The Focal Point of Dispute
Presumption and Burden of Proof
Argument Analysis and Diagramming
Claims...
From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History
AuthorKenneth J. Hammond
ISBN1565858670
In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets and mysteries of ages past, its history and intentions veiled from most Westerners. Yet behind that veil lies one of the most amazing civilizations the world has ever known. For most of its 5,000-year...
Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
AuthorMark Rudd
ISBN0061472751
“Honest and funny, passionate and contrite, meticulously researched and deeply philosophical: an essential document on the ’60s.”
—Washington Post

 

Mark Rudd, former ’60s radical student leader and onetime fugitive member of the notorious Weather Underground,...
Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America
AuthorWalter F. LaFeber
ISBN0393309649
This book explains the history of US/Central American relations, explaining why these countries have remained so overpopulated, illiterate and violent; and why US government notions of economic and military security combine to keep in place a system of Central American dependency. This second...
That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship
AuthorRobert Tombs
ISBN1400032393
A brilliantly original account—narrated from both sides—of the love-hate relationship between Britain and France that began in the time of Louis XIV and shows no sign of abating.

That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and Gallic panache (Isabelle...
The Wrath of Fate: Book 1 of The Airship Pirate Chronicles
Author'Captain' Robert Brown
There will come a time...

when the freedom is considered too dangerous . Cities are walled, and citizens are chained to round the clock jobs in order to keep them controlled and in the place. Change and progress is outlawed.

There will come a time...

when clockworks wake up,...
Very Special People
AuthorFrederick Drimmer
ISBN0806512539
A recent picture, posted on social media, reminded me of this book. The Hardcover edition, white cover, heavy grain pages, I read back when six or seven years of age. I say read, I mainly looked at the pictures, of which there were many in that original '70s edition. those characters have remained with...
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
AuthorPaul Starr
ISBN0465081940
America's leading role in today's information revolution may seem simply to reflect its position as the world's dominant economy and most powerful state. But by the early nineteenth century, when the United States was neither a world power nor a primary center of scientific discovery, it was already...
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