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Empire of Desire (Empire, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as empire)
avg rating 3.70 — 43,385 ratings — published 2021
Empire of Sin (Empire, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as empire)
avg rating 4.00 — 39,338 ratings — published 2022
Empire of Hate (Empire, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as empire)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,518 ratings — published 2022
Empire of Lust (Empire, #4)
by (shelved 47 times as empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,533 ratings — published 2022
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as empire)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,942 ratings — published 2019
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,060 ratings — published 2021
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,960 ratings — published 2003
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,941 ratings — published 2019
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as empire)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,785 ratings — published 2016
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as empire)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,492 ratings — published 2007
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as empire)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,151 ratings — published 2019
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,390 ratings — published 2006
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as empire)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,895 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 488,111 ratings — published 2022
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 12 times as empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,257 ratings — published 1990
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as empire)
avg rating 4.13 — 30,041 ratings — published 1978
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,709 ratings — published 2015
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,089 ratings — published 1995
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,982 ratings — published 1961
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,543 ratings — published 1776
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.17 — 600,803 ratings — published 1951
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,849 ratings — published 1993
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,229 ratings — published 2022
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 323 ratings — published 2019
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 4.55 — 410,354 ratings — published 2016
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 3.98 — 429 ratings — published 2010
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,587 ratings — published 1971
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.31 — 28,203 ratings — published 1971
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.24 — 351,370 ratings — published 2015
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,146 ratings — published 2000
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,880 ratings — published 2013
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 3.91 — 215 ratings — published 2009
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,563 ratings — published 2000
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,593 ratings — published 1994
Wounds of Honour (Empire, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,439 ratings — published 2009
The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 3.74 — 26,769 ratings — published 1951
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,599 ratings — published 2003
Against Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,309 ratings — published 1995
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,486 ratings — published 2009
Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 3.90 — 27,647 ratings — published 1950
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 3.92 — 713 ratings — published 2007
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.30 — 36,972 ratings — published 2021
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,626 ratings — published 2015
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.61 — 18,011 ratings — published 2020
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.16 — 307 ratings — published 2019
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,180 ratings — published 1950
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,808 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,057 ratings — published 1997
“…I think the moment we root our worth in castes and kingdoms, in ‘civilization,’ we have accepted the precepts of those whose whole entire legacy is the burning and flooding of a planet. And then we have already lost.
I am trying to urge you toward something new—not simply against their myths of conquest, but against the urge to craft your own.”
― The Message
I am trying to urge you toward something new—not simply against their myths of conquest, but against the urge to craft your own.”
― The Message
“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.”
― Empire
― Empire
