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A sweeping, sobering masterclass in making sense of the twentieth century's most turbulent and transformative decades. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The age of extremes.
- sweeping
- sobering
- intellectually rigorous
- turbulent
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The Age of Revolution
Eric J. Hobsbawm · 1962
A sweeping, intellectually thrilling masterclass on the twin engines of industry and rebellion that forged the modern world.
- 02
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi · 1983
A sweeping, intellectually rigorous dismantling of the free-market myth that fundamentally changes how you view the relationship between society and the economy.
- 03
The coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans · 2003
A masterful, dread-inducing autopsy of a democracy dismantling itself.
- 04
Energy in world history
Vaclav Smil · 1994
A sweeping, deeply pragmatic lens on human history that reveals the hidden physical forces shaping our world.
- 05
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama · 1994
A sweeping, mountaintop view of human civilization that leaves you wrestling with the quiet anxiety of what happens after we win the ideological war.
- 06
The proud tower
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman · 1966
A sweeping, fateful portrait of a glittering and fractured world hurtling toward cataclysm.
- 07
Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme
Fernand Braudel
A sweeping, microscopic-to-macroscopic journey through the everyday habits and grand economic shifts that built the modern world.
- 08
Postwar
Tony Judt · 2005
A magisterial, sweeping journey through the ashes of a shattered continent as it painstakingly rebuilds its identity and its borders.
- 09
Mao's great famine
Frank Dikötter
A meticulously documented descent into one of history's darkest chapters, where bureaucratic hubris meets unimaginable human suffering.
- 10
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.
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The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis · 2005
A sweeping, authoritative journey through the ideological standoff that held the world hostage for half a century.
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Empire of cotton
Sven Beckert
An unflinching, sweeping examination of the brutal economic engine that built the modern world.
