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Grand Hotel Abyss

by Stuart Jeffries

Who were the Frankfurt School—Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today?

35 posts
The Great Cowboy Strike

by Mark A. Lause

When cowboys were workers and battled their bosses

3 posts
Gwangju Uprising

by Hwang Sok-yong, Jeon Yong-ho, et al.

The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellion
The Haitian Revolution

by Toussaint L'Ouverture
Haiti’s ousted premier on the leader of the world’s first black republic
5 posts

The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, et al.

A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain

24 posts
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger

by Terry Eagleton
Reading Irish culture in the light of the socio-political history that conditioned it.
1 post
History and Revolution

Edited by Mike Haynes and Jim Wolfreys
Confronting conservative and revisionist trends in historical enquiry.
8 posts
History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past

by Geoff Eley

How History has changed in the half-century since the 1960s

A History of Gold and Money

by Pierre Vilar
“A work of sweeping scholarship, it is impressive and welcome in English.”—The Economist
6 posts
A History of the Barricade

by Eric Hazan

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history

33 posts
The History of the Paris Commune of 1871

by Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray

The classic history of the Paris Commune.

27 posts
A History of Vodka

by William Pokhlebkin

“Very learned, very informative.”—Victor Kiernan

2 posts

The Holocaust Industry

by Norman G. Finkelstein

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain

17 posts
Homage to Chiapas

by Bill Weinberg
Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.
1 post
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
Hungary: The Rise and Fall of Feasible Socialism

by Nigel Swain

Why did Hungarian socialism—the most innovative in the Eastern Europe—fade away so easily?

I, Rigoberta Menchú

by Rigoberta Menchú
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
11 posts
If They Come in the Morning …

Edited by Angela Y. Davis

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power

71 posts
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

by Norman G. Finkelstein

A fully updated new edition, by the author of The Holocaust Industry.

21 posts
Imagined Communities

by Benedict Anderson
The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism
36 posts

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