The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
4.23
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
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1. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600 - 1850
By: Prasannan Parthasarathi
3.55
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why… read more
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2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
3. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
4. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
5. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
By: Fernand Braudel , Siân Reynolds
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
The subject of The Wheels of Commerceis the development of mechanisms of exchange--shops, markets, … read more
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6. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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7. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , David Levering Lewis
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most i… read more
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8. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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9. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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10. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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11. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more
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12. The Long Twentieth Century
By: Giovanni Arrighi
3.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The… read more
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13. Two Treatises of Government
By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more
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14. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
By: Sidney W. Mintz
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, cla… read more
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15. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By: Kenneth Pomeranz
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more
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16. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
17. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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18. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
By: Fernand Braudel , Siân Reynolds
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
This is the first of three fascinating volumes in which Braudel, the renowned historian and celebra… read more
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19. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
By: Nick Turse
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more
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20. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe i… read more
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21. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
22. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
23. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
By: Harsha Walia
4.59
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delive… read more
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"Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat."-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous a…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
"Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can e…"-Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
24. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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25. The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
4.23
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of th… read more
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- international relations
- history
- world history
- politics
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26. Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
By: Orisanmi Burton
4.81
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitioni… read more
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27. A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
By: Jairus Banaji
3.87
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated - by both laypeople and Marx… read more
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28. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.98
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more
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29. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital
By: Jason W. Moore
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitali… read more
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30. Historia del Pueblo Argentino
By: PENA MILCIADES
4.55
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
Con un estilo que combina la erudición, el lunfardo, la diatriba y la ironía, los análisis de Milcí… read more
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31. The Political Economy of Growth
By: Paul A. Baran
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
This classic of contemporary Marxist economics provocatively tackles a problem crucial to all econo… read more
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