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Labor and the Course of American Democracy

by Charles Bergquist
“Groundbreaking political and ideological analysis.”—Carol A. Smith, UC Davis
The Last Communard

by Gavin Bowd

The story of an unexpected hero

18 posts
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
Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign

by Françoise Waquet

Acclaimed cultural history of Latin’s rise and fall

1 post

Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis
The Leveller Revolution

by John Rees

The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution

14 posts
Liberalism

by Domenico Losurdo

“A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions.” – Financial Times

20 posts
Liberty Against the Law

by Christopher Hill

A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of seventeenth-century England

Lineages of the Absolutist State

by Perry Anderson
Situating the Absolutist states of the early modern epoch against the background of European feudalism
9 posts
Lives on the Left

Edited by Francis Mulhern

Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review.

17 posts
Living in the End Times

by Slavoj Žižek

Žižek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.”

45 posts
The London Hanged

by Peter Linebaugh

This groundbreaking history aids any understanding of the rise of capitalism.

4 posts

The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over seven hundred years.

15 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
The Making of Bourgeois Europe

by Colin Mooers

A defense of the concept of bourgeois revolution in European history

5 posts

The Making of New World Slavery

by Robin Blackburn

Tracing European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch.

14 posts
The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

by Ron Ramdin

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth century

16 posts
Making the Revolution Global

by Theo Williams

How black radicals reshaped the British left

5 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

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