Books that (claim to) have something important to say about contemporary society (including historical explanations for how we got here).
Politics, Policy, and Culture Public
Created and curated by David Bremner
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Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
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In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s. By 1947, after two centuries …
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The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames
5 stars
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.
In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and …
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Maus I, My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
5 stars
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms …
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Settler by Emma Battell Lowman, Adam J. Barker
5 stars
During the 1900s, eugenics agained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among "undesirable" population in Canada. Though …
