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Dangerous Counsel: Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

We often talk loosely of the “tyranny of the majority” as a threat to the workings of democracy. But...

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Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure

The biggest question in the world of art and culture concerns the return of property taken without c...

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Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Become Scapegoats

How migrants became the scapegoats of contemporary mainstream politicsThe UK government proudly call...

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Across the Great Divide: The Sent-Down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968–1980

The sent-down youth movement, a Maoist project that relocated urban youth to remote rural areas for...

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The Great Fire of Rome: Life and Death in the Ancient City

Peril was everywhere in ancient Rome, but the Great Fire of 64 CE was unlike anything the city had e...

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Democracy in China: The Coming Crisis

A respected Chinese political philosopher calls for the Communist Party to take the lead in moving C...

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The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity....

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The Fall and Rise of the British Left

The return of British socialism: Where does it comes from? Why now? And where is it going?The remark...

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In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after t...

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The Enlightenment that Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830

The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initi...

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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American na...

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Rising Star, Setting Sun: Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and the Presidential Transition That Changed America

A monumental new history reveals how the transition of power from Eisenhower to Kennedy marked the c...

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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947

An Economist Best Book of 2018New York Times Book Review Editor’s PickAt the end of World War II, Ge...

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Metternich: Strategist and Visionary

A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of t...

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How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800

A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and...

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