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The Origin of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?

41 posts
A People’s History of the World

by Chris Harman

A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet

8 posts
Ten Myths About Israel

by Ilan Pappe

The myths—and reality—behind the state of Israel.

17 posts
Twilight of History

by Shlomo Sand

The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today

6 posts

American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers

by Perry Anderson

“One of the world’s great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures.” —Jeet Heer, The New Republic

13 posts
The Battlefield

by Hugh Roberts
A radical corrective to Western misconceptions that reduce Algeria’s tragedy to a clash of stereotypes
1 post
Fire and Blood

by Enzo Traverso

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

32 posts
The Non-Jewish Jew

by Isaac Deutscher
Essays on Judaism in the modern world, from philosophy and history to art and politics
4 posts

Redemption and Utopia

by Michael Löwy
Classic study of Jewish libertarian thought, from Walter Benjamin to Franz Kafka
3 posts
The Shock of the Anthropocene

by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”

24 posts
Direct Action

by L.A. Kauffman

A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now

27 posts
The Experience of Defeat

by Christopher Hill

What happened to the radicals when the English Revolution failed?

9 posts

Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts

by Jules Marchal

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild

6 posts
The Lost World of British Communism

by Raphael Samuel

A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain

6 posts
A People’s History of the French Revolution

by Eric Hazan

A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes

30 posts
A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People

by Christopher Hill
Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written?
6 posts

Weimar in Exile

by Jean-Michel Palmier

A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power

5 posts
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
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
Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis

A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World

20 posts

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