

Nice combo of political and military history of the empire. I don’t care so much for military history but for such a militaristic empire it makes sense to read a military history. Highly readable and rarely gets bogged in minutiae.
Nice combo of political and military history of the empire. I don’t care so much for military history but for such a militaristic empire it makes sense to read a military history. Highly readable and rarely gets bogged in minutiae.

Emphasis on the “towards” part of the title, expect some significant and pedantic restating of ideas from Kant and Marx. It’s good but not really what I’m looking for in such a book. The last chapter he finally gets to the material history and its fine.
Emphasis on the “towards” part of the title, expect some significant and pedantic restating of ideas from Kant and Marx. It’s good but not really what I’m looking for in such a book. The last chapter he finally gets to the material history and its fine.

Some good stuff but yea a bit too academic. Wasn’t so interested on debates about hardness and impenetrability or what books Locke read and in which year. Later essays were best.
Some good stuff but yea a bit too academic. Wasn’t so interested on debates about hardness and impenetrability or what books Locke read and in which year. Later essays were best.