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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
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
Governing from the Skies

by Thomas Hippler

The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing

1 post

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 Art of Cloning

by Pang Laikwan

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

4 posts
Communal Luxury

by Kristin Ross

Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century

44 posts
2017 Verso Radical Diary

by Verso Books
A stylish diary with dates from across worldwide radical history
2 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
If They Come in the Morning …

Edited by Angela Y. Davis

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

73 posts
The Mosaic of Islam

by Suleiman Mourad

A comprehensive introduction to the faith and politics of Islam

6 posts
Molecular Red

by McKenzie Wark

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century

65 posts

Rebel Crossings

by Sheila Rowbotham

The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century

18 posts
The Religion of the Future

by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
A new philosophy of religion for a secular world
4 posts
Building the Commune

by Geo Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

24 posts
The Soviet Century

by Moshe Lewin

On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, a classic history of the Soviet era, from 1917 to its fall

11 posts

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