Books like The age of extremes

The age of extremes by Eric Hobsbawm reads as analytical, critical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Industry and empire

Eric Hobsbawm · 1968

Both explore social change

65% genome match

Empire of cotton

Sven Beckert · 2004

Same nonfiction feel

59% genome match

Albion's Seed

David Hackett Fischer · 1989

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

The Uncertainties of Knowledge (Politics, History, and Social Change)

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein · 2003

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

The Free World

Louis Menand · 2021

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Traces on the Rhodian shore

Clarence J. Glacken · 1967

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

Postwar

Tony Judt · 2005

Both explore social change

83% genome match

The Cold War

John Lewis Gaddis · 2005

Same nonfiction feel

52% genome match

The Red Prince

Timothy Snyder · 2008

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

Agents of empire

Noel Malcolm · 1657

Same nonfiction feel

54% genome match

The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan · 2015

Same nonfiction feel

48% genome match

India after Gandhi

Ramachandra Guha · 2007

Both explore social change

65% genome match