Chuang 1: Dead Generations
By: Chuang Collective
4.30
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Chuang is a collective of communists who consider the “China question” to be of central relevance t…
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1. The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
4.22
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of th… read more
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2. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.28
Format: 627 pages, Paperback
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more
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"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
3. Medieval Europe
By: Chris Wickham
3.72
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and h… read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race
By: Patrick Wolfe
3.88
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
Traces of Historypresents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a hi… read more
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5. 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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6. The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Modern World-System II: The Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-… read more
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7. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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8. The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revoluti… read more
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9. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more
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10. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
11. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
By: James C. Scott
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size… read more
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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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13. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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14. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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15. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
By: J. Sakai
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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16. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism's Final Crisis
By: None
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned… read more
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17. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more
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"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
"The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in oppos…"-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
18. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
19. Capital: The Process of Circulation of Capital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Ernest Mandel , David Fernbach
3.92
Format: 594 pages, Paperback
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and… read more
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20. How the Irish Became White
By: Noel Ignatiev
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Iri… read more
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21. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.34
Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more
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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
22. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
By: Mike Davis
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe i… read more
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23. The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
By: Immanuel Wallerstein , Edward Shorter , Charles Tilly
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
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24. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
25. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
26. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
By: Søren Mau
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more
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27. The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s
By: Immanuel Wallerstein
4.23
Format: 388 pages, Hardcover
Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of th… read more
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28. Unequal Exchange
By: Arghiri Emmanuel
4.42
Format: 453 pages, Hardcover
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29. Muhammad
By: Maxime Rodinson
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A definitive and fascinating introduction to the life, ideas, and impact of the founder of Islam. M… read more
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30. The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies of Ecological Revolution from Below
By: Peter Gelderloos
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderl… read more
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31. Chuang 1: Dead Generations
By: Chuang Collective
4.30
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Chuang is a collective of communists who consider the “China question” to be of central relevance t… read more
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