History

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  How Race Survived US History

  by David R. Roediger
  An absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, by the foremost historian of race and labor.

  6 posts

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  I, Rigoberta Menchú

  by Rigoberta Menchú
  The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

  3 posts

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  Filming Pancho

  by Margarita de Orellana
  An absorbing look at how early twentieth-century Hollywood shaped the US’s conception of Mexico.
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  The Struggle for Tibet

  by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya
  Two leading thinkers argue against the Chinese occupation and the theocracy of Tibet.

  2 posts

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  The Myth of 1648

  by Benno Teschke
  Award-winning reinterpretation of the origins of modern international relations.
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  On the Town

  by Marshall Berman
  A pulsating history of Times Square and its iconic role in America's society of the spectacle.
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  The Other

  by Ryszard Kapuściński
  The master of literary reportage reflects on the West's encounters with the non-European.
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  The Bolivarian Revolution

  by Simon Bolivar
  A collection of documents from iconic revolutionary, Símon Bolívar, introduced by Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela.

  2 posts

  1 discussion

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  The Rights of Man and Common Sense

  by Thomas Paine
  "We have it in our power to begin the world over again."—Thomas Paine
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  Antagonistics

  by Gopal Balakrishnan
  A striking intervention from one of the most original young radical thinkers of today.
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  Pure Society

  by André Pichot
  As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics.
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  America's Kingdom

  by Robert Vitalis
  A groundbreaking account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order.

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  Adam Smith in Beijing

  by Giovanni Arrighi
  Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.

  2 posts

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  The Haitian Revolution

  by Toussaint L'Ouverture
  Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic.

  1 post

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  A Time to Speak Out

  Edited by Anne Karpf, Brian Klug, et al.
  Jewish voices challenge the terms of the Israel/Palestine debate.

  1 post

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  Buda's Wagon

  by Mike Davis
  History of the car bomb traces the political development of this influential weapon of terror and resistance.

  2 posts