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Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism

by Rodney Hilton
How capitalism evolved from the economics of feudalism.
3 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
Blaming the Victims

Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said

“These forcefully argued treatises will be as enlightening as they are disturbing.”—ALA Booklist

11 posts
The Parthenon Marbles

by Christopher Hitchens

With the opening of the New Acropolis Museum, Hitchens states the case for reunification.

1 post

Captain Swing

by Eric Hobsbawm and George Rudé
The classic social history of the great English agricultural uprising of 1830, from two of the greatest modern historians
1 post
Afrocentrism

by Stephen Howe
“Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times
The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

44 posts
The End of the Revolution

by Wang Hui

A compelling examination of the future of Chinese modernity by the leading member of China’s “New Left.”

17 posts

Gwangju Uprising

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

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

by Hwang Sok-yong

A sweeping account of imprisonment—in time, in language, and in a divided country—from Korea’s most acclaimed novelist

2 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
Revolutionary Horizons

by Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson
A comprehensive history of insurrection in Bolivia.
4 posts

Serve the People

by Karen L. Ishizuka

A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans

11 posts
The Way the Wind Blew

by Ron Jacobs

Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young...

1 post
Representing Capital

by Fredric Jameson
"No one writes books with sentences quite as forceful as these." – Monthly Review
9 posts
Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction

by Chantal Jaquet

How people become "class traitors"

1 post

The Declaration of Independence

by Thomas Jefferson

The explosive manifesto for the American Revolution, introduced by the co-author of Empire

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

by Stuart Jeffries

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

9 posts
Grand Hotel Abyss

by Stuart Jeffries

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

35 posts
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.

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