21 Top history books like The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession (Jacobin) by Anton Jäger

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The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession (Jacobin)

By: Anton Jäger

3.84

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

A Left-wing populist insurgency exploded across the West in the wake of the Great Financial CrisisA…

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1. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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2. The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Class War: The Privatization of Childhood

By: Megan Erickson

4.17

Format: 200 pages,

What is at stake when some American children go to school hungry and others go to school in $1,000 … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

By: Ernesto Che Guevara , Aleida Guevara March

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The young Che Guevara's lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

7. Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

By: Micah Uetricht

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this centur… read more

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8. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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9. The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal , None

3.86

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more

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"A good book is an event in my life."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."

-Stendhal, The Red and the Black

10. Half of a Yellow Sun

By: None

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more

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11. Planet of Slums

By: Mike Davis

4.01

Format: 448 pages,

Se a imagem da metropole no seculo XX era a dos arranha-ceus e das oportunidades de emprego, Planet… read more

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12. 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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13. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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14. A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie

By: Dan Evans

4.22

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most po… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

By: Lea Ypi

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"

-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

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16. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

By: Anna Kornbluh

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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18. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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19. The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution

By: Ryan Grim

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering A.O.C., Rashida Tlaib,… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

By: Quinn Slobodian

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State

By: Samuel Stein

3.94

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. De kolonie mept terug: over witte arrogantie en voortschrijdend inzicht; een denkoefening en leesreis

By: Adriaan van Dis

3.76

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

De wonden geslagen door gedwongen verplaatsing, westerse expansiedrift en de verdeel-en-heerspoliti… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. De ongelijkheidsmachine

By: Paul Goossens

3.98

Format: 584 pages, Hardcover

Hoe kan het dat een handvol mensen meer bezit dan de helft van de wereldbevolking en waarom wordt d… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers

25. Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World

By: Brett Christophers

4.05

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

All hail the new masters of How asset managers acquired the world Banks have taken a backseat sinc… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. Red State Revolt: The Teachers' Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics (Jacobin)

By: Eric Blanc

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge by Benjamin Y. Fong

27. Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge

By: Benjamin Y. Fong

4.24

Format: 331 pages, ebook

A look at drugs through the lens of societal change and a look at social change through the lens of… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela

By: George Ciccariello-Maher

4.01

Format: 144 pages, ebook

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy Since 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swep… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

By: Maya Wind

4.69

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against PalestiniansIsraeli universi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession (Jacobin)

By: Anton Jäger

3.84

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

A Left-wing populist insurgency exploded across the West in the wake of the Great Financial CrisisA… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge

By: Michael L. Dertouzos

4.00

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The biggest-selling book in MIT history, Made in America is the definitive account of how America w… read more

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  • history

22 must-read politics books like The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession (Jacobin) by Anton Jäger

Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

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

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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Class War: The Privatization of Childhood

Megan Erickson

4.17

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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

4.09

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

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Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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