15 Best history books like The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story by Ramzy Baroud

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The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story

By: Ramzy Baroud

4.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

This is a history of modern Palestine like no built from the testimony of people who have lived th…

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1. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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2. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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3. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

4. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

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7. I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

By: Izzeldin Abuelaish

3.73

Format: None pages,

By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hateis Izzeldin Abuelais… read more

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8. The Blue Between Sky and Water

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of… read more

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9. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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10. Bandits

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bandits is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded … read more

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11. SNCC: The New Abolitionists

By: Howard Zinn

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Howard Zinn tells the story of one of the most important political groups in American history. SNCC… read more

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12. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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13. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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14. The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism

By: Abdullah Öcalan

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the M… read more

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15. 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
  • journalism
  • 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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16. 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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17. On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

By: Elise Loehnen

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly follow in order to be considere… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"When you don't stop, you don't have to feel."

-Elise Loehnen, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

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18. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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19. Mother of Strangers

By: Suad Amiry

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beg… read more

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  • historical
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20. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
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21. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • historical
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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22. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

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

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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25. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By: David Graeber

3.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

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26. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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27. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. My First and Only Love

By: Sahar Khalifeh

3.99

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A deeply poetic account of love and resistance through a young girl’s eyes by Sahar Khalifeh. Af… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
Cover of Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich

29. Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

3.88

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Celebrated New York Times bestselling author Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of our human … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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30. Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire

By: Kojo Koram

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Longlisted for the British Academy Book Pri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story

By: Ramzy Baroud

4.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

This is a history of modern Palestine like no built from the testimony of people who have lived th… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • journalism

6 Top historical books like The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story by Ramzy Baroud

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Mother of Strangers

Suad Amiry

3.96

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Minor Detail

Adania Shibli

4.20

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

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Transform Your Habits

My First and Only Love

Sahar Khalifeh

3.99

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19 Top politics books like A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie by Dan Evans

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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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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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