9 must-read history books like Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford Studies in International History) by Jeffrey James Byrne

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Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford Studies in International History)

By: Jeffrey James Byrne

4.38

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution,…

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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976

By: Piero Gleijeses

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its es… read more

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  • politics
  • africa
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. False Nationalism False Internationalism

By: E. Tani , Kaé Sera

5.00

Format: None pages, Photocopy spiral bound

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. The Re-Conquest of Ireland

By: James Connolly

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When England deprived Ireland of all rights to the soil and to universal livelihood, the Irish peop… read more

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5. The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)

By: Anne Rice

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of … read more

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6. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

7. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more

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8. Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976

By: None

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Hardcover

At a time when Arab revolutionary movements are once again dominating the headlines, Monsoon Revolu… read more

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9. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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10. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

By: غسان كنفاني , None

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)

By: Terry Martin

4.04

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

"Terry Martin looks at the nationalities policy of the early Soviet period and offers an insightful… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order (Oxford Studies in International History)

By: Jeffrey James Byrne

4.38

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution,… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • politics
  • algeria
  • nonfiction
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13. The Communist Movement in the Arab World (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series)

By: Tareq Y. Ismael

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This book examines the communist movement in the Arab world from the time of the Russian revolution… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. "Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh": Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution

By: Robbie McVeigh

4.72

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Battlefield: Algeria 1988-2002, Studies in a Broken Polity

By: Hugh Roberts

4.23

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates ab… read more

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  • algeria
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans: Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011

By: Robert M. Hayden

3.78

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Reflecting more than two decades of research on Yugoslavia's collapse and based primarily on source… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism

By: Communist Working Group

4.38

Format: 223 pages, None

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