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None of Us Were Like This Before

by Joshua E. S. Phillips
The legacy of torture in the “War on Terror,” told through the story of one tank battalion
10 posts
Pure Society

by André Pichot

As genetic manipulation comes to dominate medical science, a timely and trenchant history of eugenics.
The Returns of Zionism

by Gabriel Piterberg

Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionism.

9 posts
A History of Vodka

by William Pokhlebkin

“Very learned, very informative.”—Victor Kiernan

2 posts

The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

by Ron Ramdin

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century

17 posts
Proletarian Nights

by Jacques Rancière
A classic text by Rancière on the intellectual thought of French workers in the 19th century.
19 posts
The Amistad Rebellion

by Marcus Rediker
"So gripping that I’m wary of providing spoilers." – Eric Foner, Nation
6 posts
The Fearless Benjamin Lay

by Marcus Rediker

The extraordinary story of one of slavery’s earliest and most redoubtable opponents

5 posts

Outlaws of the Atlantic

by Marcus Rediker
Gripping maritime history from below with pirates and escaped slaves
7 posts
Villains of All Nations

by Marcus Rediker
Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations...
3 posts
The Leveller Revolution

by John Rees

The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution

14 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

Opening the Gates

by Donald Reid

How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968

11 posts
On the Nation and the Jewish People

by Ernest Renan and Shlomo Sand
Two classic texts on nationalism introduced by the author of The Invention of the Jewish People.
15 posts
The Battlefield

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

by Maximilien Robespierre

Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French Revolution

5 posts

The Russian Revolution

by Walter Rodney

Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy

10 posts
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister

by Sandra Rodríguez Nieto

The intimate story of a teenager's murder of his family, from award-winning Mexican journalist.

8 posts
Seizing Freedom

by David R. Roediger

Forceful and detailed account of the struggle for “freedom” after the American Civil War

15 posts
Communal Luxury

by Kristin Ross

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

44 posts

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