6 must-read ireland books like One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn

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One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA

By: Daniel Finn

3.94

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

A history of “the Troubles”: the radical politics of RepublicanismThe conflict in Northern Ireland …

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1. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

By: Masha Gessen

4.19

Format: 515 pages, Hardcover

The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...But reason was helpless against demagogy."

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely."

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may h…"

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about God, power, and human life. After fifty years of purges, ar…"

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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2. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

By: Joe Studwell

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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4. We Want Everything

By: Nanni Balestrini

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist It was 1969, and tempe… read more

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  • politics
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5. How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

By: Thomas Cahill

3.81

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne - the "dark ages" - learning, scholarship, and cul… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Each one of us will die, naked and alone, on some battlefield not of our own choosing."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

"Like the Jews before them, the Irish enshrined literacy as their central religious act."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

"By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

"Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident—and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature."

-Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe 

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6. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

By: Sarah Schulman

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. One Day in My Life

By: Bobby Sands , Gerry Adams , Bobby Sands Trust

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in pris… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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8. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life

By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23

By: Diarmaid Ferriter

3.30

Format: 208 pages,

Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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10. 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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11. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

12. 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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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. The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918–1923

By: Charles Townshend

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

This is a gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history, from Charles T… read more

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15. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

By: Silvia Federici

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more

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16. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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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. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

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19. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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20. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

By: Jacob Mikanowski

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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23. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

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24. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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25. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

By: Kelly Weill

3.79

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

By: Ian Penman

4.02

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thou… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The problem with making art to wake people up: your ideal reader/viewer is therefore by definition probably asleep, and not the least bit interested in your kind of wake-up-you-sleepwalkers art."

-Ian Penman, Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors

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27. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

By: Cailin O'Connor

3.77

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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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. One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA

By: Daniel Finn

3.94

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

A history of “the Troubles”: the radical politics of RepublicanismThe conflict in Northern Ireland … read more

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  • history
  • british literature
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • 20th century
  • terrorism
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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30. Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy

By: David Broder

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

By: Grace Blakeley

3.80

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In The Corona Crash, leading economic commentator Grace Blakeley anatomises the long term causes fo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

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Masha Gessen

4.19

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Joe Studwell

4.26

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Vladimir Lenin

4.24

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Mike Rothschild

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Philip S. Gorski

4.19

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Talia Lavin

3.87

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Naomi Klein

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