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One Man’s Terrorist

by Daniel Finn

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

7 posts
Our Own Time

by Philip S. Foner and David R. Roediger
“Crucial reading ... for all those who have ever punched a clock.”—International Labor and Working Class History
10 posts
The Man Who Closed the Asylums

by John Foot

“A portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” – Financial Times

11 posts
Afterlives of Chinese Communism

Edited by Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, et al.

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?

2 posts

Proletarian China

Edited by Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace

A century of complex relations between Communists and workers in China
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
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

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: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women

by Kristen Ghodsee

The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists

5 posts

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

28 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

12 posts

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