The Most Recommended Books is a term Bookdao uses to indicate books that are worth reading. Through our data processing tools, the book lists are formed by professional readers’ collective opinions, rather than sales figures. For approach and methodology, seeWhat Is a Good Book. The translated humanities category contains popular works introduced from overseas. This month's list includes 20 books, and they come from 10 different countries, mainly the United States and the United Kingdom. Topics include history, philosophy, and biographies of people.
Flaws in the Glass
Author: [Australia] Patrick White
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication Date: September 2022
Flaws in the Glass, published in 1981, is the literary autobiography of Patrick White, Australia's first Nobel Prize winner in literature. In this autobiography, White dissects himself unapologetically, in a text that is at times poetic, at times introspective and introspective, and at times witty and mean-spirited. In his own way, he traces and dismantles Australia and the world, resetting them in the map of his own mind.
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: [Mauritius] Sudhir Hazareesingh
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press
Publication Date:September 2022
Sudhir Hazareesingh, born in Mauritius, is a Fellow of the British National Academy and has been a Senior Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Belleaure College, Oxford University since 1990.
Through extensive archival research and from an interpretive perspective, Sudhir Hazareesingh has made a breakthrough in restoring a complex three-dimensional image of Toussaint in Black Spartacus, showing Toussaint's understanding of himself and the role he played in the late 18th century-Atlantic world.
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
Author: [UK] Paul Gilroy
Publisher: Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House
Publication Date: September 2022
The Black Atlantic is a classic work by internationally renowned race theorist Paul Gilroy and a landmark work that has reshaped the field of black cultural studies. The author fully utilizes and develops the concept of "Black Atlantic" as a historical field, a unit of analysis, and a theoretical perspective, tracing the migration of black people between Africa, the Americas, and Europe, analyzing in depth the impact of black dispersion on black culture itself and Western modernity. It moves black people from the margins to the center of modernity discourse.
General History of Tourism from the 16th to the 21st Century
Author: [France] Marc Boyer
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Publication Date:October 2022
Marc Boyer, a leading French historian and expert in tourism studies, was the chairman of the Committee on the History of Tourism at the French Institute of Tourism. In this book, Boyer describes how tourism emerged and evolved into a global activity in the Western world from the 16th to the 21st century, shedding light on the past and present of country vacations, mountain climbing, skiing, sunbathing, SPAs, and other forms of tourism that are still popular today. It is a cultural history of Western tourism from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (4th Edition)
Author: [US] Kenith Pomeranze, Steven Topik
Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
Publication Date:October 2022
Why We Work So Hard
Examining Globalization: The World Over 500 Years and the Economic Evolution of the 21st Century. This book is a compilation of small essays written for readers of World Trade Magazine by Kenith Pomeranze and Steven Topik, which discusses the relationship between trade and law, culture, revolution, technology, and so on, and paints a picture of the development of human society from the formation of markets, means of transportation, addictive foods, transplants, violence, modern markets, and the industrialization and deindustrialization of world trade.
Nihilism
Author: [Netherlands] Nolen Gertz
Publisher: The Commercial Press
Publication Date:September 2022
A Memoir of Susan Sontag
Author: [US] Sigrid Nunez
Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
Publication Date:September 2022
Zhou Enlai in Paris
Author: [Japan] Kazuo Ogoura
Publisher: Jiuzhou Press
Publication Date:September 2022
Time and Power
Author: [Australia] Christopher Clark
Publisher: CITIC Press Group
Publication Date:October 2022
Literary Sinitic and East Asia
Author: [Korea] Kin Bunkyo
Publisher: SDX Joint Publishing (Shanghai)
Publication Date:October 2022
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Author: [Germany] Frank Trentmann
Publisher: Jiuzhou Press
Publication Date:October 2022
Quentin Tarantino
Author: [US] Gerald Peary
Publisher: Nanjing University Press
Publication Date:October 2022
The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch
Author: [Canada] Constance Classen
Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
Publication Date:September 2022
A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx
Author: [UK] Iain Hampsher-Monk
Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
Publication Date:September 2022
The Camel and the Wheel
Author: [US] Richard W. Bulliet
Publisher: Peking University Press
Publication Date:September 2022
Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution
Author: [US] Alfred F. Young
Publisher: Shanxi People's Publishing House
Publication Date:September 2022
Waiting for the Weekend
Author: [US] Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Zhejiang University Press
Publication Date:September 2022
Japanese Thought
Author: [Japan] Maruyama Masao
Publisher: SDX Joint Publishing
Publication Date:October 2022
Celebrity Fans and Their Consumer Behaviour
Author: [UK] Markus Wohlfeil
Publisher: Social Sciences Academic Press
Publication Date:October 2022
The Number and the Siren: A Decipherment of Mallarme's Coup De Des
Author: [France] Quentin Meillassoux
Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication Date:October 2022