17 Best history books like The Great Labor Uprising of 1877 by philip s foner

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The Great Labor Uprising of 1877

By: philip s foner

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The first generalized confrontation between labor and capital in the United States, which effective…

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1. The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

By: Bruce Cumings

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

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"Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end."

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

"Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century."

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

"It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months o…"

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

"It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months o…"

-Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)

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2. From Lenin to Stalin

By: Ralph Manheim , Victor Serge , None

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Eyewitness account of the rise of Stalinism.Notes, index. read more

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  • history
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3. Fascism and Big Business

By: Daniel Guérin

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Examines the development of fascism in Germany and Italy and its relationship with the ruling capit… read more

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  • history

4. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

By: Friedrich Engels , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

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5. Sexism and Science

By: Evelyn Reed

3.54

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Are human beings innately aggressive? Does biology condemn women to remain the "second sex"? Taking… read more

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6. The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany

By: Leon Trotsky , George Breitman , Ernest Mandel , None

4.00

Format: 186 pages,

Writing in the heat of struggle against the rising Nazi movement, a central leader of the Russian r… read more

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7. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

8. Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87

By: Thomas Sankara

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The leader of the Burkina Faso revolution recounts how peasants and workers in this West African co… read more

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9. Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: Authorized Edition

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE "CHE: PART ONE" FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramati… read more

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10. The Bolivian Diary: Authorized Edition

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Fidel Castro , None

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE "CHE: PART TWO" FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO This is Che… read more

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11. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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12. Teamster Rebellion

By: Farrell Dobbs

4.21

Format: None pages,

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13. Marxism and Terrorism

By: Leon Trotsky

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

The propertied classes have always laid the charge of "terrorism" on those leading the struggle aga… read more

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14. Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

By: Bruce Levine

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A “powerful” ( The Wall Street Journal ) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen,… read more

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  • history
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15. The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation

By: Abraham Léon

4.19

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

During the opening years of the 21st century, anti-Semitic venom and incidents of violent assault o… read more

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16. The Great Labor Uprising of 1877

By: philip s foner

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The first generalized confrontation between labor and capital in the United States, which effective… read more

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  • labor
  • american
  • history
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17. Their Morals and Ours

By: Leon Trotsky

4.05

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Participating in the revolutionary workers movement "with open eyes and an intense will--only this … read more

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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."

-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours

"A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified."

-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours

"A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equal…"

-Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours

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18. Kronstadt

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A Pathfinder upgraded edition Political and economic lessons from the 1921 mutiny at Kronstadt nava… read more

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  • history
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19. The History of American Trotskyism, 1928-38: Report of a Participant

By: James P. Cannon

4.43

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, Cannon says, but the restoration, the revival of … read more

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  • american
  • history
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20. The Emancipation of Women; From the Writings of V. I. Lenin

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.05

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

On problems of women's equality, including Clara Zetkin's interview with Lenin, and a preface by N.… read more

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Cover of Out Now!: A Participant's Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War by Fred Halstead

21. Out Now!: A Participant's Account of the Movement in the United States Against the Vietnam War

By: Fred Halstead

4.25

Format: 759 pages, Hardcover

An irreplaceable account of the fight for a political course able to organize working people, GIs, … read more

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Cover of Europe and America: Two Speeches on Imperialism by Leon Trotsky

22. Europe and America: Two Speeches on Imperialism

By: Leon Trotsky

4.14

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

In two speeches in the mid-1920s, Trotsky points to the emergence of the United States as the prima… read more

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Cover of Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes

23. Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

By: Jack Barnes

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in th… read more

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  • american
  • history
"You are either free or not free"

-Jack Barnes, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

"And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education."

-Jack Barnes, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

"... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist."

-Jack Barnes, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

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24. Land or Death: The Peasant Struggle in Peru

By: Hugo Blanco

3.87

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The land occupations and uprisings by peasants in the early 1960s, recounted by a central leader of… read more

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  • history
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25. Teamster Power

By: Farrell Dobbs

4.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second of four books on the 1930s strikes, organizing drives, and political campaigns that tran… read more

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  • labor
  • history
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26. Teamster Politics

By: Farrell Dobbs

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Four books on the 1930s strikes and organizing drive that transformed the Teamsters union in Minnes… read more

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  • labor
  • history
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27. The Clintons' Anti-working-class Record: Why Washington Hates Working People

By: Jack Barnes

4.50

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

Lo deplorable es su sistema, no nosotros! Nunca antes los candidatos presidenciales de ambos partid… read more

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28. Teamster Bureaucracy

By: Farrell Dobbs

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

The last of four books on the 1930s strikes, organizing drives, and political campaigns that transf… read more

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  • labor
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29. On the Jewish Question

By: Leon Trotsky

4.00

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

“Never was it so clear as it is today that the salvation of the Jewish people is bound up inseparab… read more

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30. On Britain

By: Leon Trotsky

4.21

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

The displacement of British industry, trade, finance, and diplomacy by its U.S. rival following Wor… read more

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31. Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The record of Lenin's last and most concentrated political battle against a growing privileged laye… read more

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16 best-selling history books like Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power by Jack Barnes

Transform Your Habits

From Lenin to Stalin

Ralph Manheim , Victor Serge , None

2.83

Transform Your Habits

Fascism and Big Business

Daniel Guérin

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

Bruce Levine

4.01

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