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Frank Dikötter

Mao's Great Famine

The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

2010 (First published: 2010)

"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the...

448 Pages

5/5

4

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Friedrich von Hayek

The Road To Serfdom

Collected Works - Vol. 2

2007 (First published: 1944)

Certainly one of the most important classic works in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally...

283 Pages

5/5

5

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Karl Popper

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Princeton Classics - 115

2020 (First published: 1945)

Written in political exile during the Second World War, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a ‘vigorous and profound defence of democracy’, its...

808 Pages

2

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Timothy Snyder

Bloodlands

Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

2022 (First published: 2010)

Bloodlands is a history of mass killings in Eastern Europe, where the Soviets showed up, killed everyone they wanted to, and then the Nazis showed up and killed everyone else. By focusing on mass killings, rather than genocide, Snyder is...

592 Pages

5/5

7

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Vaclav Smil

Grand Transitions

How the Modern World Was Made

2021 (First published: 2019)

What makes the modern world work? The answer lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization--in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics. Societies that have undergone all four transitions emerge into an era of radically different population...

384 Pages

5/5

2

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Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

2018 (First published: 2017)

Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al...

464 Pages

5/5

5

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