History

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  A Way of Life That Does Not Exist

  by Colin Samson
  The tragedies of the Innu, and how some have resisted assimilation.
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  The New Rulers of the World

  by John Pilger
  Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and wealth of states and corporations.
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  The Rule of Freedom

  by Patrick Joyce
  How cities and citizens were made governable, all in the name of freedom.
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  The Battlefield

  by Hugh Roberts
  Combating the tendency to reduce Algeria's tragedy to a clash of stereotypes, Roberts offers a radical corrective to Western misconceptions.

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  Wooden Eyes

  by Carlo Ginzburg
  An illuminating and thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance. 
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  Late Victorian Holocausts

  by Mike Davis
  “Eloquent and passionate, this is a veritable Black Book of liberal capitalism.”—Tariq Ali
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  Pinochet and Me

  by Marc Cooper
  “Masterfully evokes some of the darkest chapters of US Cold War policy.”—Warren Beatty

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  Blaming the Victims

  Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said
  “These forcefully argued treatises will be as enlightening as they are disturbing.”—ALA Booklist

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  Afrocentrism

  by Stephen Howe
  “Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times
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  Island Stories

  by Raphael Samuel
  “The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning.”—Terry Eagleton, Guardian
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  The Origins of Postmodernity

  by Perry Anderson
  A history of the postmodern, and the role of Fredric Jameson in shaping it.

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  The Salaried Masses

  by Siegfried Kracauer
  The classic study of white-collar lifestyle and culture in prewar Germany.

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  The Beginning of the End

  by Tom Nairn and Angelo Quattrocchi
  Two superbly written accounts of the events of May 1968.
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  Viramma

  An intensely personal and moving self-portrait of a woman living at the very margins of Indian society, informed by a sense of profound social change. 
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  The Way the Wind Blew

  by Ron Jacobs

  Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young...

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  Dead Again

  by Masha Gessen
  Intellectuals’ search for identity and relevance in modern Russia.