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The Invention of the Jewish People

by Shlomo Sand

Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian.

37 posts
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1

by Theodore W. Allen
Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.
28 posts
The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2

by Theodore W. Allen
Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.
24 posts
Invisibility Blues

by Michele Wallace

Classic work of black feminism

44 posts

The Invisible History

by Karma Nabulsi

How our contemporary counter-terrorism practices reveal the persistence of Empire
Islams and Modernities

by Aziz Al-Azmeh
Challenges ahistorical and erroneous conceptions of Islam and the West.
11 posts
Island Stories

by Raphael Samuel
“The sheer scope and erudition of these pages is stunning.”—Terry Eagleton, Guardian
2 posts
It Started in Wisconsin

Edited by Paul Buhle and Mari Jo Buhle
First-hand accounts of the largest pro-labor mass mobilization in modern American history
12 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

15 posts
Lavil

Edited by Evan Lyon and Peter Orner

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis

4 posts
Legalize This!

by Douglas Husak
Exploding the myths that sustain the criminalization of recreational drugs.
Lockdown America

by Christian Parenti

Updated edition of the classic examination of the link between crime and politics.

12 posts

Lockdown High

by Annette Fuentes

25 posts
The Long Twentieth Century

by Giovanni Arrighi

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

15 posts
Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas

Edited by Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stølen
The true picture of gender relations in Latin America.
2 posts
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City

by Mike Davis
Is the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth of the Hudson River?
13 posts

Malice

by Francois Flahault
The inner roots of malice—good and evil as inherent in the human condition.
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

10 posts
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

Edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi
Part of Verso’s classic Mapping series that collects the most important writings on key topics in a changing world
7 posts
Mechanic Accents

by Michael Denning

“One of the most illuminating, theoretically informed accounts of popular fiction.”—Terry Eagleton

2 posts

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