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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
17 posts
Building the Commune

by Geo Maher

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy

24 posts
The Bullet and the Ballot Box

by Aditya Adhikari

Twenty-first-century revolution in one of the remotest places in the world

2 posts
The Burning Forest: India’s War Against the Maoists

by Nandini Sundar

An empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, and homes and communities destroyed

4 posts

Bush in Babylon

by Tariq Ali
The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement, fully updated.
19 posts
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory

by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi

A scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophers
Captain Swing

by Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé
The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians
1 post
Captives

by Jarrod Shanahan

The definitive history of America’s most notorious jail and the violent rise of New York City’s law-and-order movement

2 posts

Casualty Figures

by Michèle Barrett
A unique investigation of the impact of the Great War on the lives of the soldiers who survived.
3 posts
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power

by Gregory Wilpert

Venezuela under Hugo Chávez could be a model for peaceful revolution—or it could all be undone by the specters of the past.

4 posts
Chechnya

by Tony Wood

A powerful argument for Chechen self-determination, and a definitive history of the region.

8 posts
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins

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

Cinderella Goes to Market

by Barbara Einhorn
Assessing the position of women before and after the fall of state socialism.
4 posts
Citizens to Lords

by Ellen Meiksins Wood
A major new history of Western political thought as it evolved through conflict and communities.
13 posts
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

23 posts
City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles

4 posts

A Civil War

by Claudio Pavone
“Among the few indisputable masterpieces of contemporary history.” —Financial Times
14 posts
Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism

by Shelton Stromquist

How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic—and what the lessons are for today

1 post
Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism

by Rodney Hilton
How capitalism evolved from the economics of feudalism.
3 posts
Collected Works, Volume 1

by V. I. Lenin

Re-launch of the Collected Works of the legendary revolutionary in paperback

6 posts

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