What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?
9 posts
China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.
2 posts
A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations
22 posts
The extraordinary story of one of slavery’s earliest and most redoubtable opponents
5 posts
How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought back
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Engaging with theorists such as Foucault, Lyotard and Agamben, this book is a clarion call to join the resistance against the return of empire and a stirring manifesto for the emerging global peace movement.
Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes
31 posts
From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.
15 posts
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power
47 posts
With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism
39 posts
A historian’s personal journey through complex questions of immigration, home and nation
The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing
Who were the Frankfurt School—Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today?
34 posts
When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses
3 posts
The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion
A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain
25 posts
