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A sweeping, intellectually thrilling masterclass on the twin engines of industry and rebellion that forged the modern world. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Age of Revolution.
- turbulent
- grand
- intellectually rigorous
- epochal
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The age of extremes
Eric J. Hobsbawm
A sweeping, sobering masterclass in making sense of the twentieth century's most turbulent and transformative decades.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
Europe and the people without history
Eric R. Wolf · 1982
A sweeping, analytical exploration of the economic and social transformations that connected the globe from 1492 onward.
- 05
Citizens
Simon Schama · 1989
A sweeping, cinematic descent from Enlightenment optimism into the bloody chaos of ideological zealotry.
- 06
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.
- 07
Empire of cotton
Sven Beckert
An unflinching, sweeping examination of the brutal economic engine that built the modern world.
- 08
The radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood · 1992
A rigorous, scholarly exploration of the profound social and political transformations that forged a new nation.
- 09
Postwar
Tony Judt · 2005
A magisterial, sweeping journey through the ashes of a shattered continent as it painstakingly rebuilds its identity and its borders.
- 10
The coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans · 2003
A masterful, dread-inducing autopsy of a democracy dismantling itself.
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Energy in world history
Vaclav Smil · 1994
A sweeping, deeply pragmatic lens on human history that reveals the hidden physical forces shaping our world.
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Das Kapital
Karl Marx
A dense, monumental dissection of the capitalist machine that rewards patient readers with flashes of biting sarcasm and revolutionary fury.
