Stephen R. Platt is widely respected for his incisive nonfiction, particularly in regard to his knowledge and understanding of China. With Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Platt details the absorbing narrative of the Taiping Rebellion, which resulted in the loss of 20 million lives. Occurring in the 1850s, this is the story of a cultural movement characterized by intriguing personages such as influential military strategist Zeng Guofan and brilliant Taiping leader Hong Rengan.
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
audiobook
The Deluge
Adam Tooze
audiobook
The Age of Capital
Eric Hobsbawm
audiobook
The Age of Empire
Eric Hobsbawm
audiobook
The Age of Extremes
Eric Hobsbawm
audiobook
The Panic of 1907 : Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm
Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr
audiobook
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
audiobook
Nation, state and empire
Robin Lane Fox, Gillian Clark, Steven Grosby, Tom Holland, Peter H Wilson, Larry Siedentop, Lawrence James, Maurizio Viroli, Simon Mayall, Jessica Frazier, Jeremy Jennings, Josef Joffe, Philip Bobbitt, Richard J Evans, Lucy Riall, Lars Trägårdh, Charles S Maier, Rob Johnson, Tim Marshall, Harvey Whitehouse, Christopher Coker, Janne Haaland Matláry, Carlos Escudé, Jonathan Fenby, Martina Winkelhofer, David Goodhart, Iain Martin, Freddy Gray
audiobookbook
In the Midst of Civilized Europe : The 1918–1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
Jeffrey Veidlinger
audiobook
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
audiobook
Just Price in the Markets : A History
Charles R. Geisst
audiobook
Germany, 1923 : Hyperinflation, Hitler's Pusch and Democracy in Crisis
Volker Ullrich
audiobook