Modernization Books
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by (shelved 2 times as modernization)
avg rating 3.59 — 254,216 ratings — published 1949

by (shelved 2 times as modernization)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,476 ratings — published 1900

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,433 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.40 — 60 ratings — published 1945

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,262 ratings — published 1997

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,397 ratings — published 1998

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,458 ratings — published 1952

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,810 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,710 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.75 — 684,478 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.00 — 98,735 ratings — published 1862

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,304 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.89 — 110 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.35 — 23 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.65 — 23 ratings — published 1977

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.38 — 21 ratings — published 1989

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.94 — 107 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.59 — 827 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.47 — 17 ratings — published 1979

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.90 — 289 ratings — published 1971

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.00 — 34 ratings — published 1962

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,155 ratings — published 1979

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.99 — 141 ratings — published 1979

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.37 — 50,329 ratings — published 1973

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,134 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,316 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,761 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.57 — 20,669 ratings — published 1994

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,528 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,585 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.97 — 401 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,092 ratings — published 2005

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.07 — 100,539 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.11 — 58,521 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.12 — 76 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,926 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.06 — 285,920 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,707 ratings — published 1983

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,985 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.11 — 189,043 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.59 — 28,688 ratings — published 1973

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.80 — 417,888 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.96 — 25 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 3.95 — 120,061 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.10 — 974 ratings — published 1947

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.57 — 472,573 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.43 — 381,650 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 1 time as modernization)
avg rating 4.47 — 663,043 ratings — published 2012
“Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness”
― The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
― The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
“Influential scholars since the mid-twentieth century have argued that the essential character of Ottoman modernity was reactive, imitative, defensive, and ultimately defective relative to the presumably more successful modernization projects of Germany, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and America, where while exemplifying and eventually monopolizing claims to modernity, also brought two world wars, the Holocaust, the nuclear immolation of Japanese cities, and the Cold War, among other worldwide cataclysms.”
― The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East
― The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East