13 Top philosophy books like Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore

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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…

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1. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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

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2. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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4. The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being

By: William Davies , Chiara Melloni

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Jeremy Bentham proposed that government should run "for the greatest benefit of the greatest n… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

By: Jane Bennett

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In Vibrant Matterthe political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and … read more

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  • ecology
  • theory
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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7. A People's History of the World

By: Chris Harman

4.80

Format: None pages,

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people form… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

By: José Esteban Muñoz

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • academic

9. A Companion to Marx's Capital

By: David Harvey

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx'… read more

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10. Arv og miljø

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

At ingen av dere pa noe tidspunkt har spurt meg om min historie, har jeg opplevd og opplever jeg so… read more

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11. Liberalism: A Counter-History

By: Domenico Losurdo , Gregory Elliott

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues… read more

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12. We Have Never Been Modern

By: Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever … read more

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13. Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization

By: Immanuel Wallerstein

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this short, highly readable book Immanuel Wallerstein provides a condensation of the central ide… read more

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14. Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

By: Andreas Malm

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the … read more

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15. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway o… read more

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16. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more

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17. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

By: Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more

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18. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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19. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

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  • ecology
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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20. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • ecology
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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21. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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22. Health Communism

By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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23. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.05

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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24. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
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25. 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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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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26. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • ecology
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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27. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

By: Raj Patel

3.84

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and these are the seven things that have made our world a… read more

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  • ecology
  • history
  • politics
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
"If Capitalism is a disease, then it's one that eats your flesh - and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that ha…"

-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

"If Capitalism is a disease, then it's one that eats your flesh -- and then profits from selling your bones for fertilizer, and then invests that profit to reap the cane harvest, and then sells that h…"

-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

"What happens next is unpredictable at one level and entirely predictable at another. Regardless of what humans decide to do, the twenty-first century will be a time of "abrupt and irreversible" chang…"

-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

"The frontier works only through connection, fixing its failures by siphoning life from elsewhere. A frontier is a site where crises encourage new strategies for profit. Frontiers are frontiers becaus…"

-Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

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28. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

By: Molly Smith

4.61

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

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29. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism by Kōhei Saitō

30. 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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  • ecology
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
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31. 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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  • ecology
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • academic
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • science

15 Best history books like Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore

Transform Your Habits

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce

Fernand Braudel , Siân Reynolds

4.18

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

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The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

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