Political books from England
Recommended political books (18)
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If you are into political here are some political books from England for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Elliott, Jason EN
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"Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of the capital, Kabul.
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El cónsul honorario by Graham Greene ES
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Un grupo de revolucionarios planea y lleva a cabo un secuestro con la intención de conseguir la libertad de sus correligionarios encarcelados; pero se equivocan de hombre. La víctima es Charles Fortnum, un hombre sin ningún interés para el gobierno británico: se trata sólo de un cónsul honorario que vive principalmente del whisky y de su condición de diplomático inglés. Así pues, el azar convierte a Fortnum en preso de un grupo de guerrilleros encabezados por un sacerdote con el que antaño le unió la ami... continue
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Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad EN
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A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A novel to savour' SUNDAY TIMES 'A vital storyteller' ALI SMITH After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. On her arrival, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new. When Sonia meets the charismatic Mariam, a local director, she joins a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon, Sonia is rehearsing with a dedicated, if competitive, group of men - yet... continue
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Flying Green : On the Frontiers of New Aviation by Christopher de Bellaigue EN
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Can flying be green? Last year, the world's airlines pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, and whether that actually happens or not, over the coming decades aviation will experience more innovation than it has since the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered and the way they look. Christopher de Bellaigue goes to the frontiers of the new technologies, from a startup in Iceland that shows what it takes to truly capture carbon, a California firm using hydrogen tanks to power their planes, to an airship called the Flying Whale. This is the story of the search fo... continue
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Inglorious Empire : What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor EN
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Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for... continue
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The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes's answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry: he argues from first principles to human nature to politics. This book's appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace.
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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell EN
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'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.'Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the city's working-class community. Paralleling the novel's treatment of the relationship between masters and men, the suffering of the poor, and the workmen's angry response, is the story of Mary herself: a factory-worker's daughter who attracts the attentions of the mill-owner's son, she becomes caught up in the violence of class conflict when a brutal m... continue
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Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe EN
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First published in 1722, Daniel Defoe's "Moll Flanders" is the classic and tragic morality tale of its title character. Based in part on the true story of a female criminal that Defoe met in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is the daughter of a convict and is driven by a singular ambition, to raise her station in life, by any means necessary. In the process of trying to lift herself out of squalor and become a lady she is married several times, abandons her many children, and eventually resorts to thievery and prostitution in her constant quest for a better life. Bad luck and poor judgment plague... continue
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My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst EN
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Emmeline Pankhurst was raised in a world that valued men over women. At fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout her career she endured humiliation, prison, hunger strikes and the repeated frustration of her aims by men in power but she rose to become the guiding light of the Suffragette movement. This is Pankhurst's story, in her own words, of her struggle for equality.