History

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  The Obama Syndrome

  by Tariq Ali
  A prescient dissection of Obama’s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated.

  58 posts

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  Bush in Babylon

  by Tariq Ali
  The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement, fully updated.

  1 post

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  Kashmir: The Case for Freedom

  by Tariq Ali, Hilal Bhatt, et al.
  Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation.

  6 posts

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  Hitler’s Beneficiaries

  by Götz Aly
  A stunning account of the economic workings of the Third Reich—and the reasons ordinary Germans supported the Nazi state.

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  Imagined Communities

  by Benedict Anderson
  The definitive, bestselling book on the origins and development of nationalism.

  2 posts

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  A Zone of Engagement

  by Perry Anderson
  An assessment of the seminal thinkers at the border of history and politics.
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  English Questions

  by Perry Anderson
  Examines British society in the sixties, and the changes wrought by the next two decades.
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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.

  1 post

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  Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism

  by Perry Anderson
  How the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages

  1 post

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  Lineages of the Absolutist State

  by Perry Anderson
  Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism

  1 post

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  The New Old World

  by Perry Anderson
  A magisterial analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War.

  10 posts

  1 discussion

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  The Indian Ideology

  by Perry Anderson
  An analysis of the failings of the Indian Republic

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  Under Three Flags

  by Benedict Anderson
  The origins of nationalism and anti-globalization are traced by the bestselling author of Imagined Communities.

  2 posts

  1 discussion

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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 Long Twentieth Century

  by Giovanni Arrighi
  A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years.

  3 posts

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  The Meaning of Sarkozy

  by Alain Badiou
  The reactionary tradition behind Sarkozy, and the communist hypothesis for the twenty-first century.

  5 posts