Glad I finished Jonathan Israel's 800-page tome http://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Ideas-Intellectual-Revolution-Robespierre/dp/0691151725/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416962650&sr=8-1&keywords=israel+french+revolution.
& Robert Mayhew's considerably shorter lol http://www.amazon.com/Malthus-Robert-J-Mayhew-ebook/dp/B00KIHO4HA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416962694&sr=8-2&keywords=malthus as well.
Currently reading;
Geoffrey Parker's another tome, Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century /
Richard Cohen's Israel : is it good for the Jews?
Corrado Augias' The secrets of Italy : people, places, and hidden histories
Frederic Morton's Thunder at twilight : Vienna, 1913/1914
Most of these books, already finished about half.
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And plan to read about;
Spinoza, so A book forged in hell : Spinoza's scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age
More about French Revolution, so;
William Doyle's The Oxford history of the French Revolution
Peter McPhee's Robespierre : a revolutionary life
From the Conservative Britain's point of view; The savage storm : Britain on the brink in the age of Napoleon
Early modern history of China, especially on the Chinese Civil War;
The Penguin history of modern China : the fall and rise of a great power, 1850 to the present
http://www.amazon.com/China-1945-Revolution-Americas-Fateful/dp/0307595889/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416963610&sr=1-8&keywords=1949+china
Also curious about Sperm Whale lol, so
The great sperm whale : a natural history of the ocean's most magnificent and mysterious creature
And about Ulysses, Joyce's masterpiece
The most dangerous book : the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
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