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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How we Became Postmodern

by Stuart Jeffries

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

9 posts
Evil Hour in Colombia

by Forrest Hylton
The most up-to-date book on Colombia: from the mid-19th century to today's guerrilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries.
1 post
The Experience of Defeat

by Christopher Hill

What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?

9 posts
F

by Mei Zhi

China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.

2 posts

Fanaticism

by Alberto Toscano

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of Civilizations

22 posts
Farewell Perestroika: A Soviet Chronicle

by Boris Kagarlitsky

In this dramatic, month-by-month chronicle of a tumultuous period, Boris Kagarlitsky bears witness to the eruption of open political discussion in the Soviet Union during the 'hot summer' of 1988.
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

by Marcus Rediker

The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery

5 posts
Fighting Sleep

by Franny Nudelman

How the military used sleep as a weapon—and how soldiers fought back

1 post

Filming Pancho

by Margarita de Orellana
An absorbing look at how early twentieth-century Hollywood shaped the US’s conception of Mexico.
The Final Frontier

by Dominick Jenkins

Engaging with theorists such as Foucault, Lyotard and Agamben, this book is a clarion call to join the resistance against the return of empire and a stirring manifesto for the emerging global peace movement.
The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State

by Dale Carter
Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso

Europe’s second Thirty Years’ War—an epoch of blood and ashes

32 posts

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

by Slavoj Žižek

From the tragedy of 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdown.

15 posts
Fossil Capital

by Andreas Malm

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power

48 posts
Futures of Black Radicalism

Edited by Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin

With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalism

38 posts
Gandhi

by Kathryn Tidrick
A major reinterpretation of Gandhi’s life, politics, religion and nation
1 post

Gandhi's Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India

by Dhirendra Jha

The life of Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Gandhi

1 post
Going to My Father’s House

by Patrick Joyce

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

1 post
Gold Warriors

by Peggy Seagrave and Sterling Seagrave

Drawing on a vast range of original documents and interviews, Gold Warrior exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century.

2 posts
Governing from the Skies

by Thomas Hippler

The history of the war from the past one hundred years is a history of bombing

1 post

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