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Slavoj Žižek

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Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis

A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World

18 posts
The Experience of Defeat

by Christopher Hill

What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?

9 posts
Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts

by Jules Marchal

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild

7 posts
The Lost World of British Communism

by Raphael Samuel

A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain

6 posts

A People’s History of the French Revolution

by Eric Hazan

A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes

29 posts
A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People

by Christopher Hill
Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?
6 posts
Weimar in Exile

by Jean-Michel Palmier

A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power

5 posts
Direct Action

by L.A. Kauffman

A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now

28 posts

Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes

31 posts
The Non-Jewish Jew

by Isaac Deutscher
Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics
4 posts
Redemption and Utopia

by Michael Löwy
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka
3 posts
The Shock of the Anthropocene

by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”

25 posts

American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

by Perry Anderson

“One of the world’s great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures.” —Jeet Heer, The New Republic

13 posts
The Battlefield

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

by Clyde Woods
A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta
4 posts
The Origin of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?

40 posts

A People’s History of the World

by Chris Harman

A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet

8 posts
Ten Myths About Israel

by Ilan Pappe

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The myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel.

17 posts
Twilight of History

by Shlomo Sand

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today

6 posts
The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

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

11 posts

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