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Books like Empire
A sweeping, provocative journey through the mechanics of global power that challenges how we view the foundations of the modern world. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Empire.
- intellectual
- expansive
- grandiose
- contemplative
- 01
Why the West Rules - For Now
Ian Morris
A sweeping, God's-eye view of human history that turns millennia of data into a gripping puzzle about geography, power, and our collective future.
- 02
The rise and fall of the British Empire
Lawrence James
A sweeping, scholarly exploration of the mechanics of power, tracing the long arc of imperial ambition and its inevitable unraveling.
- 03
The ascent of money
Niall Ferguson
An expansive, eye-opening journey that reveals the invisible financial scaffolding holding up human history.
- 04
How the Scots invented the Modern World
Arthur Herman
A sweeping, enthusiastic journey through the intellectual awakening that quietly built the modern world.
- 05
Inglorious Empire
Shashi Tharoor
A fiercely articulate and righteous dismantling of imperial myths that leaves you intellectually electrified and profoundly indignant.
- 06
The post-American world
Fareed Zakaria · 2008
A clear-eyed, panoramic view of a rapidly changing globe that replaces anxiety with pragmatic optimism.
- 07
The wealth and poverty of nations
David S. Landes
A sweeping, opinionated masterclass in economic history that challenges the reader to grapple with the cultural and technological roots of global inequality.
- 08
Day of Empire
Amy Chua
A sweeping, macro-historical lens on the mechanics of global dominance and the surprising role of tolerance in building empires.
- 09
The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Thomas L. Friedman
A sweeping, anecdote-driven tour of a rapidly shrinking globe that leaves you feeling both awestruck and urgently compelled to keep pace.
- 10
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
A sweeping, panoramic journey that recenters the globe and fundamentally shifts how you view the history of human civilization.
- 11
Energy in world history
Vaclav Smil · 1994
A sweeping, deeply pragmatic lens on human history that reveals the hidden physical forces shaping our world.
- 12
Empire of cotton
Sven Beckert
An unflinching, sweeping examination of the brutal economic engine that built the modern world.
