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Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England

by Christopher Hill
“Arguably [Hill’s] most flawless achievement.”—Times Literary Supplement
7 posts
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci

by Perry Anderson

7 posts
Arid Empire

by Natalie Koch

A revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West, by way of camels, date palms, and Biosphere 2
The Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

4 posts

Auschwitz Report

by Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi
Among the first written accounts of the concentration camps—a major literary and historical discovery
4 posts
The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

11 posts
The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

by Bernard Regan

The true history of the imperial deal that transformed the Middle East and sealed Palestine’s fate

5 posts
The Battlefield

by Hugh Roberts
A radical corrective to Western misconceptions that reduce Algeria’s tragedy to a clash of stereotypes
2 posts

The Beach Beneath the Street

by McKenzie Wark

The acclaimed, readable history of the Situationist International by the author of A Hacker Manifesto

62 posts
The Beginning of the End

by Tom Nairn and Angelo Quattrocchi

Two superbly written accounts of the events of May 1968.

4 posts
Being Arab

by Samir Kassir
A passionate meditation on contemporary Arab identity.
13 posts
Benjamin and Brecht

by Erdmut Wizisla
A fascinating account of the friendship between two of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century
8 posts

Beyond Black and White

by Manning Marable
Highly acclaimed dissection of the “new racism,” from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time
48 posts
Beyond Chutzpah

by Norman G. Finkelstein
A meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel–Palestine conflict.
4 posts
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

11 posts
The Blanqui Reader

by Louis Auguste Blanqui

First English-language collection of writings by the legendary nineteenth-century insurrectionist

3 posts

The Bolivarian Revolution

by Simon Bolivar

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

8 posts
Born Jewish

by Marcel Liebman

Eminent Marxist intellectual recounts class struggles in Nazi-torn Belgium

4 posts
Britain’s Empire

by Richard Gott

A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire

18 posts
Buda’s Wagon

by Mike Davis
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction
15 posts

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