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In Hiding

by Ronald Fraser
“So brief and yet so complete, so movingly human.”—Arthur Miller, New York Times
5 posts
Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property

by Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization

6 posts
Napoleon’s Cursed War

by Ronald Fraser

A magisterial history of “Napoleon’s Vietnam,” by the highly acclaimed historian of Spain.

3 posts
Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the Twenty-First Century

by Pero G. Dagbovie

The past and future of black American history

3 posts

A People's History of London

by Lindsey German and John Rees
The forgotten history of London: the world capital of revolution
21 posts
Dead Again

by Masha Gessen
Intellectuals’ search for identity and relevance in modern Russia.
Red Valkyries

by Kristen Ghodsee

Why the most radical feminists were also communists
City of Segregation

by Andrea Gibbons

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

4 posts

The E.U.: An Obituary

by John R. Gillingham

Is Brexit the beginning of the end for the EU?

33 posts
Silvio Berlusconi

by Paul Ginsborg
Contemporary Italy’s foremost historian explains why we should take Berlusconi seriously.
5 posts
The Judge and the Historian

by Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of Italy's case against Adriano Sofri, figurehead of the Italian Left, demonstrating the importance of intellectual rigor and passion against political opportunism and dishonesty at the end of the twentieth-century.
Wooden Eyes

by Carlo Ginzburg
An illuminating and thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance.
1 post

News For All the People

by Juan González and Joseph Torres

Bestselling narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.

17 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

29 posts
The Romance of American Communism

by Vivian Gornick

Writer and critic Vivian Gornick’s long-unavailable classic exploring how Left politics gave depth and meaning to American life

11 posts
Where the Boys Are

by Van Gosse

Britain’s Empire

by Richard Gott

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

18 posts
Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

by Richard Gott
A revealing account of the leader at the forefront of Latin America’s socialist revolution.
16 posts
Who Is Rigoberta Menchú?

by Greg Grandin

Leading historian takes on the lies told about Rigoberta Menchú’s bestselling memoir.

2 posts
Damming the Flood

by Peter Hallward
“A marvelous book ... riveting and deeply informed.”—Noam Chomsky
14 posts

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