📰 News & Politics 9 Favorite history books of 2025 1. Capitalism: A Global History,...Steven N. Durlauf@sndurlauf 22 views Nov 29, 2025 ~1 min read Advertisement 1 9 Favorite history books of 2025 1. Capitalism: A Global History, by Sven Beckert 2 2. Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent, by Kim Bowes 3 3. The German Empire, 1871-1918 by Roger Chickering 4 4. Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule, by Michael David-Fox 5 5. The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800, by Lynn Hunt 6 6. The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825, by Susanna Rabow-Edling 7 7. The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, by Sophia Rosenfeld 8 8. What is Ancient History? by Walter Scheidel 9 9. Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic Save this thread — create a free accountSave this thread Sign Up