Branko Milanovic

The author undertakes a new interpretation of physiocratic economics and its contributions to the foundation of economic science....

"Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. On China illu...

A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists...

A pioneering history traces the origins of global economic governance--and the political conflicts it generates--to the aftermath of World War I.International economic institutions like the IMF and World Bank exert incredible influence over the domestic policies of many states. These institutions date from the end of World War II and amassed power ...

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Book of the Year."Lieven has a double gift: first, for harvesting details to convey the essence of an era and, second, for finding new, startling, and clarifying elements in familiar stories.  This is history with a heartbeat, and it could not be more engrossing."—Foreign AffairsOne of the wo...

Many theories have been offered to explain the disintegration of the Soviet Union, yet none sufficiently explain the speed and profundity of the empire’s collapse. In this powerful polemic, Wisla Suraska disputes popular interpretations of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and explains how theories, such as totalitarian theory, have failed to exa...

The classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered materialSouthern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherless, pensive child in the wild, he began writing poems long before quitting the countryside for Santiago, where he spent his bohemian student years. Fr...

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A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of  Caesar In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In...