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Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

4 posts
The Monster Enters: COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism

by Mike Davis

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes - the Avian flu, SARS, and now, Covid-19

3 posts
Race, Place, Trace

Edited by Susan Slyomovics and Lorenzo Veracini

Exploring Patrick Wolfe’s work on settler colonialism

1 post
Soldiers of Revolution

by Mark A. Lause

How war gave birth to revolution in nineteenth century France

The Invention of the White Race

by Theodore W. Allen

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America

7 posts
Britain’s Empire

by Richard Gott

A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire

20 posts
Connected History

by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

History without borders
Daring to Hope

by Sheila Rowbotham

A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation

4 posts

Space Forces

by Fred Scharmen

The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk

11 posts
Revolution: An Intellectual History

by Enzo Traverso

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions

6 posts
Ever Closer Union?

by Perry Anderson

How to theorise the European Union

3 posts
The Northern Question

by Tom Hazeldine

A history of the UK’s regional inequalities, and why they matter

2 posts

The Prisoner

by Hwang Sok-yong

A sweeping account of imprisonment—in time, in language, and in a divided country—from Korea’s most acclaimed novelist

2 posts
Going to My Father’s House

by Patrick Joyce

A historian’s personal journey through complex questions of immigration, home and nation

1 post
The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States

by Carola Dietze

Terrorism’s roots in Western Europe and the United States

1 post
The Indian Ideology

by Perry Anderson

"Well sourced and artfully crafted, offering a comprehensive history of India’s ideology” – Jacobin

7 posts

The Invention of Sicily

by Jamie Mackay

A fascinating cultural history of this most magical of islands

6 posts
One Man’s Terrorist

by Daniel Finn

A history of “the Troubles”: the radical politics of Republicanism

7 posts
The Shadow of the Mine

by Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson

The rise and fall of Britain’s most important industry

3 posts
We Fight Fascists

by Daniel Sonabend

The story of the Jewish ex-servicemen who fought against Oswald Mosley after World War II

2 posts

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