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The Making of New World Slavery

by Robin Blackburn
Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch.
4 posts
The Persistence of the Old Regime

by Arno Mayer
“A seminal book—extremely challenging.”—Carlo Ginzburg
1 post
The Meaning of Sarkozy

by Alain Badiou
The reactionary tradition behind Sarkozy, and the communist hypothesis for the twenty-first century.
5 posts
Sermon to the Princes

by Thomas Muntzer
“Omnia sunt communia—all things are common.”—Thomas Müntzer.
1 post

Broonland

by Christopher Harvie
A scathing and witty indictment of the architect of New Labour, Gordon Brown.
Field of Honour

by Max Aub
Evocative, modernist novel chronicles the prelude to the Spanish Civil War.
1 post
The Origin of German Tragic Drama

by Walter Benjamin
Benjamin's most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism.
Casualty Figures

by Michèle Barrett
A unique investigation of the impact of the Great War on the lives of the soldiers who survived.

Napoleon's Cursed War

by Ronald Fraser
A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam,” by the highly acclaimed historian of Spain.
2 posts
The Putney Debates

by The Levellers
The debates between the Levellers and Oliver Cromwell, introduced by Geoffrey Robertson.
1 post
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.
Praised Be Our Lords

by Régis Debray
The captivating autobiography of one of France’s leading political activists and intellectuals.
1 post

Chechnya

by Tony Wood
A powerful argument for Chechen self-determination, and a definitive history of the region.
3 posts
Samuel Beckett

by Pascale Casanova
A radical new reading of Samuel Beckett, by the author of The World Republic of Letters.
The Lost World of British Communism

by Raphael Samuel
A vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
1 post
Auschwitz Report

by Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi
The first published work by one of the central figures in twentieth century literature.

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