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1

Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It

by Samuel Miller McDonald

46 members

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History of the Idea of Progress

by Robert Nisbet

208 members

2 reviews

3.8

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A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics

by Matthew W. Slaboch

21 members

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Progress: A Reconstruction

by Peter Wagner

14 members

3

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A Short History of Progress

by Ronald Wright

1,274 members

30 reviews

3.9

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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch

506 members

4 reviews

3.9

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Energy and Civilization: A History (The MIT Press)

608 members

4 reviews

4

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The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

by Rodrigo Aguilera

12 members

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Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

by Danny Dorling

44 members

1 review

4

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The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics

by Stephen J. Macekura

22 members

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Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress

by Christopher Ryan

216 members

4 reviews

3.8

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Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

140 members

4 reviews

4

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The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1, The Ancient Mediterranean World

by Keith Bradley

29 members

½ 4.3

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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

670 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

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The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture -Two Volumes

by Oklahoma Historical Society

7 members

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Microbial Evolution and Co-Adaptation: A Tribute to the Life and Scientific Legacies of Joshua Lederberg: Workshop Summary

by Institute of Medicine (U.S.).,

4 members

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Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils

by David Farrier

110 members

3 reviews

3.9

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

4,618 members

184 reviews

4.1

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Humankind: A Hopeful History

by Rutger Bregman

2,153 members

54 reviews

4.2

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by Thomas Hobbes

9,846 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

3,401 members

78 reviews

4.1

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

1,347 members

46 reviews

4.1

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Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792

by Susan Sleeper-Smith

39 members

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Letters from an American Farmer

by J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

29 members

½ 3.5

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Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

by Traci Brynne Voyles

45 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

3,475 members

65 reviews

4.2

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Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power

by Karl Wittfogel

158 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

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Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

by Marvin Harris

779 members

9 reviews

4.2

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The Communist Manifesto

18,166 members

163 reviews

½ 3.5

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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel

356 members

10 reviews

4

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by Bruce Pascoe

1,016 members

23 reviews

4.2

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A Companion to American Literature And Culture

10 members

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

6,961 members

170 reviews

½ 4.5

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Aborigine Myths and Legends

by W. Ramsay Smith

83 members

½ 3.5

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

2,639 members

81 reviews

4.2

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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

by Paula Gunn Allen

525 members

2 reviews

4.1

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

16,452 members

462 reviews

4.1

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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States

by James C. Scott

946 members

21 reviews

3.9

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What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

by David Wengrow

86 members

1 review

½ 3.6

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The Epic of Gilgamesh

by Gilgamesh Poet

10,459 members

134 reviews

3.8

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Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation

97 members

½ 3.5

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The Worlds of Medieval Europe

by Clifford R. Backman

231 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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Extinction: A Radical History

by Ashley Dawson

71 members

½ 3.5

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Hegemonic peace and empire : the Pax Romana, Britannica and Americana

by Ali Parchami

5 members

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Complete Works of Tacitus

759 members

9 reviews

4.2

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Crusade for Pan-Europe: Autobiography of a man and a movement

by Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi

3 members

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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History

153 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

3,461 members

148 reviews

3.9

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Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

by Garth Fowden

109 members

3

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Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire

by Timothy Barnes

34 members

3

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Libanius: Selected Orations, Volume II, Orations 2, 19-23, 30, 33, 45, 47-50

35 members

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by Timothy Bolton

102 members

½ 4.3

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared M. Diamond

13,439 members

190 reviews

3.9

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The Norse Myths

by Kevin Crossley-Holland

2,598 members

26 reviews

4

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Possessed by the Right Hand (Studies in Global Slavery)

by Bernard K. Freamon

5 members

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by Ibn Khaldūn

220 members

2 reviews

4.1

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778 members

16 reviews

3.8

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Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400–1070

by Robin Fleming

375 members

6 reviews

4.1

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Marx: Early Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

57 members

4

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The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes

by Dean H. Hamer

333 members

6 reviews

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Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms)

by Xavier Lafrance

4 members

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

2,138 members

66 reviews

4.1

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The journal of Christopher Columbus (during his first voyage, 1492-93) and documents relating to the voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real

by Clements R. Markham

2 members

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A People's History of the United States

17,264 members

175 reviews

4.2

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The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions

by Jason Hickel

245 members

4 reviews

4.1

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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

by Bartolomé de las Casas

1,403 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

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The Routledge companion to the environmental humanities

by Ursula K Heise

10 members

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A People's History of Scotland

by Chris Bambery

105 members

2.8

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The Writings of Thomas Paine 1 1774-79

by Thomas Paine

61 members

1 review

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Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics: A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind on Universal History Reflections on ... in the History and Theory of Politics)

by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

6 members

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The Belief in Progress

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History of the Decline and Fall of Roman Empire [complete]

by Edward Gibbon

3,665 members

42 reviews

½ 4.3

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Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

by Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet

137 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

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Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004 (Gender and Political Violence, 2)

by Sikata Banerjee

2 members

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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

by Frans de Waal

814 members

16 reviews

4.1

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Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

by Giorgos Kallis

23 members

5

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An Essay on the Principle of Population

by Thomas Robert Malthus

1,028 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

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Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

by Mark Kurlansky

3,615 members

77 reviews

3.9

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Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

by Jeffrey Ostler

127 members

1 review

½ 4.7

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George Washington's War on Native America (Native America: Yesterday and Today (Paperback))

by Barbara Alice Mann

31 members

1 review

5

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The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

by Abraham Lincoln

25 members

5

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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution

by E. A. Wrigley

34 members

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Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

by Andreas Malm

276 members

4 reviews

4.1

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2,360 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

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American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good

by Colin Woodard

181 members

4 reviews

3.8

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Introduction to Sociology

by Henry L. Tischler

60 members

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The Man versus the State

by Herbert Spencer

271 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

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by Herbert Spencer

55 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

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Progress: Its Law and Cause; With Other Disquisitions, Viz. the Physiology of Laughter, Origin and Function of Music, the Social Organism, Use and Beauty, the Use of Anthropomorphism (Classic Reprint)

by Herbert Spencer

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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin

1,832 members

15 reviews

3.9

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Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job

by Gavin Mueller

157 members

1 review

½ 3.4

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

4,695 members

36 reviews

3.9

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239 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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

by Eugene McCarraher

202 members

½ 3.7

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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

by Peter Kropotkin

1,213 members

10 reviews

4.2

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Correspondence 1846-1895

by Karl / Engels Marx, Friedrich

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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

by Friedrich Engels

1,787 members

17 reviews

3.8

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Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and the Peripheries of Capitalism (Monthly Review Press Classic Titles, 26)

by Teodor Shanin

58 members

½ 2.5

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Karl Marx And Frederick Engels Selected Works Volume One (1)

26 members

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American National Biography

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