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Slavoj Žižek

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Rebellion in the Veins

by James Dunkerley
A masterly survey of Bolivian society and politics since the early 1950s.
2 posts
African and Caribbean Politics

by Manning Marable
Studying Ghana, Guyana and Grenada to discover the problems affecting democracy in the African diaspora.
6 posts
An Injury to All

by Kim Moody
Exposing the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.
10 posts
Resources of Hope

by Raymond Williams
Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory.
6 posts

Power in the Isthmus

by James Dunkerley
A comprehensive yet authoritative study of Central American politics.
1 post
The Thinking Reed

by Boris Kagarlitsky

“Extraordinarily impressive.”—Observer
Our Own Time

by Philip S. Foner and David R. Roediger
“Crucial reading ... for all those who have ever punched a clock.”—International Labor and Working Class History
10 posts
States of Emergency

by Robert Lumley
“A fascinating account.”—Paul Ginsborg
4 posts

Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England

by Christopher Hill
“Arguably [Hill’s] most flawless achievement.”—Times Literary Supplement
7 posts
Red Brotherhood at War

by Grant Evans and Kelvin Rowley
A comprehensive account of events since 1975 in Indochina
1 post
Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism

by Rodney Hilton
How capitalism evolved from the economics of feudalism.
3 posts
New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time

by Ernesto Laclau
A critical examination of social struggle in the context of late capitalism.
9 posts

Rethinking the French Revolution

by George Comninel
“Bold and convincing.”—Village Voice
7 posts
The Making of Bourgeois Europe

by Colin Mooers

A defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution in European history

5 posts
English Questions

by Perry Anderson
Examines British society in the sixties, and the changes wrought by the next two decades.
7 posts
A Zone of Engagement

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

Misplaced Ideas

by Roberto Schwarz
Essays on history, culture and identity by one of the foremost Latin American intellectuals of our time.
1 post
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

by Joyce Salisbury
Salisbury explores the relationship between Church doctrines and the position of women.
3 posts
A History of Vodka

by William Pokhlebkin

“Very learned, very informative.”—Victor Kiernan

2 posts
The Destruction of Yugoslavia

by Branka Magaš

A Yugoslavian’s analysis of her country’s descent into violence.

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