Crisis Modern World

Rene Guenon Explained: Traditionalism, Sacred Knowledge, Metaphysical Truth, The Crisis of the Modern World, Initiation, Symbolism, and the Recovery of Ancient Wisdom explores the profound and often misunderstood ideas of one of the twentieth century’s most influential metaphysical thinkers. Rene Guenon challenged the foundations of modern civilization by arguing that contemporary society has lost contact with sacred knowledge that once guided traditional cultures. In this accessible and deeply informative guide, readers are introduced to Guenon’s critique of modern materialism, his ...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity. On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial...

In the spirit of American cultural prophecy—from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Rebecca Solnit—acclaimed writer Casey Gerald offers a groundbreaking work of joyous dissent and stunning vision, a survival guide to a society in crisis. “Somehow Casey Gerald has pulled off the most urgently political...

Lecture de La Crise du monde moderne, de René Guénon (1927).

A loaf of bread for 4.2 trillion marks. A lifetime of savings that couldn't buy a postage stamp. In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced one of the most catastrophic economic disasters in human history. "The Year Money Died in Germany" takes readers on a harrowing journey into the heart of hyperinflation, where the rules of economics collapsed, and the social fabric of a nation was torn apart. This gripping work of narrative nonfiction explains the chain reaction that began with the crushing war debts of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles, leading to the fateful decision to print money to ...

They came promising peace. They came masking something far older. A novel of End Times war, conspiracy, and prophecy. Caleb lost everything for the truth. Elena sees the proof daily and says nothing. Neither can stay silent much longer. What if the beings the world is being asked to welcome have been preparing for their arrival for generations? Buried inside classified government files is Project Genesis, a hybrid breeding program running since the 1940s, with full knowledge and cooperation at the highest levels. The hybrids do not look like hybrids. They look like us. They already sit in ...

In the summer of 1914, the City of London was the financial capital of the world. By 1917, it was weeks away from bankruptcy. How Britain Pawned an Empire to Buy Victory reveals the untold economic history of World War I—a conflict that was fought not just with soldiers and shells, but with gold bullion and credit lines. While history books focus on the trenches of the Western Front, a far more decisive battle was raging in the boardrooms of Wall Street and the vaults of the Bank of England. This gripping narrative explores how the cost of modern industrial warfare forced the British ...

The party of the century ended with a bill that no one could pay. The 1920s were a time of jazz, gin, and endless optimism. It was the era of the Roaring Twenties, where the stock market seemed to only go up and prosperity felt permanent. But on Black Tuesday in 1929, the music stopped, and the world woke up to a brutal hangover. "Where Did the Money Go in 1930?" investigates the sudden and catastrophic vanishing act of American wealth that triggered the Great Depression. This gripping work of economic history explains how a system built on installment plans and buying on margin collapsed ...

The Roman Empire did not die from the sword of a barbarian. It died from the greed of its own emperors. At its height, the Pax Romana was a golden age of peace and prosperity, held together by a vast network of roads and a single, trusted currency: the silver denarius. But in "The Coin That Killed Rome," readers will discover the hidden economic cancer that slowly rotted the empire from the inside out. This gripping work of economic history traces the fatal decision made by Emperor Nero to debase the currency—mixing base metals into the silver to create "free money." What began as a small...

Discover the untold story of the most audacious financial restructuring in American history in The Greatest Bank Robbery in History: Turning Points of the Modern World. In the winter of 1933, the United States stood at a breaking point. With one in four workers unemployed and the banking system collapsing under the weight of bank runs and panic, the newly inaugurated Franklin D. Roosevelt took a step that would have been unthinkable just months prior. This book deconstructs the events of the national bank holiday and the subsequent issuance of Executive Order 6102, which required all ...

Discover the explosive true story of the coup that changed the Middle East forever. In the early 20th century, the discovery of vast petroleum reserves beneath the ancient sands of Persia promised a new era of wealth and modernization. But for the people of Iran, this black gold became a curse as much as a blessing. The 1953 Iranian Oil Crisis takes readers on a gripping journey through the high-stakes world of Cold War geopolitics, where the thirst for oil collided with the hunger for national sovereignty. At the heart of the conflict was the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), which ...

The United States owes its existence to the generosity of a King who paid for it with his head. We often learn that the American Revolution was won by the grit of patriots and the genius of George Washington. But "How American Liberty Bankrupted the French Monarchy" reveals the uncomfortable economic truth behind the victory: American independence was purchased with French gold. This gripping work of historical nonfiction explores the fateful decision made by King Louis XVI to finance the rebellion of thirteen colonies against his arch-rival, Great Britain. Driven by a desire for revenge ...

Discover the hidden financial architecture of one of history's longest-lasting superpowers in How the Ottomans Financed an Empire: Turning Points of the Modern World. While traditional histories focus on sultans and sieges, this book reveals that the primary determinant of imperial survival is fiscal health. Learn how the Ottomans rejected the standard European model of heavy borrowing and instead built a system where military expansion served as a generator of revenue rather than a drain on the treasury. The narrative explores the brilliant Timar system, a decentralized military land grant...

It was the grandest economic experiment in history: nineteen different nations, nineteen different cultures, one single currency. In 1999, the launch of the Euro was hailed as the crowning achievement of the European Union. It promised to bind the continent together in permanent peace and prosperity, eliminating exchange rate risks and rivalries. "How the Euro Seduced and Trapped a Continent" tells the gripping true story of how this dream of Monetary Union turned into a nightmare of debt and division. This educational work of economic history explains the fatal flaw at the heart of the ...

Winning the war was impossible. Paying for it was even harder. In 1775, the Continental Congress faced a terrifying reality: they had declared war on the world's greatest empire, but their treasury was an empty wooden chest. "The Rise and Ruin of America’s First Currency" tells the untold economic story of the American Revolution—a battle fought not just with muskets and cannons, but with printing presses and paper promises. This gripping work of historical nonfiction traces the birth of the Continental Dollar, a currency backed by nothing but faith in a government that didn't ...

It was a Sunday evening when the Prime Minister of Great Britain bought a key to the world—without telling Parliament. In 1875, the Suez Canal was the most strategic waterway on Earth, slashing the journey to India by weeks. It was owned by the Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, a ruler with dreams of modernizing his country into a "part of Europe." But "The Financial Enslavement of Egypt" reveals how those dreams turned into a nightmare of debt that would cost a nation its freedom. This gripping work of economic history takes readers inside the opulent court of Cairo, where Ismail Pasha ...

'Well-researched and enthralling, Peter Ricketts brings the wartime Foreign Office to life.’ – Tim Bouverie 'The gripping story of how the men and women of the Foreign Office secured Britain's victory in the Second World War and created a new international order.' – Professor Helen...

A city was destroyed not by an enemy army, but by a debt collector. On a sunny morning in July 1882, the citizens of Alexandria, Egypt, woke to find the horizon filled with the dark shapes of British Royal Navy ironclads. Their massive cannons were aimed at the city—not to fight a war of conquest, but to enforce a mortgage payment. "How a Mortgage Payment Led to the Burning of Alexandria" tells the shocking true story of how sovereign debt turned a dream of modernization into a nightmare of occupation. This gripping work of historical nonfiction traces the rise and fall of Khedive Ismail,...

Discover the forgotten crisis that brought the British Empire and the United States to the brink of war—and forged the most powerful alliance of the 20th century. In the twilight of the 19th century, the British Empire ruled the waves, painting the globe pink with its colonies. Across the Atlantic, the United States was a rising industrial giant, hungry for respect and ready to enforce its dominance in the Western Hemisphere. These two titans were on a collision course, and the spark would not be a strategic port or a trade route, but a mosquito-infested stretch of jungle known as the ...

The Sick Man of Europe did not die of old age. He was foreclosed upon. In the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was a titan that spanned three continents, commanding the crossroads of the world. But while history books often focus on the battles and treaties that redefined the map, "The 100-Year Mortgage that Destroyed the Ottomans" reveals the silent, deadly weapon that truly dismantled the empire: compound interest. This gripping work of economic history chronicles the first true sovereign debt crisis of the modern era. It begins in 1854, during the Crimean War, when Sultan Abdulmecid I ...