Global Development: A Cold War History
By: Sara Lorenzini
4.00
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and econ…
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1. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600 - 1850
By: Prasannan Parthasarathi
3.55
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why… read more
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- world history
2. 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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- economics
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- world history
"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
3. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
By: David S. Landes
3.96
Format: 531 pages, Paperback
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one o… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- world history
"As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground."-David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
4. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
By: Juliana Barr
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- world history
"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
6. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
By: George Chauncey
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gay New Yorkbrilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet… read more
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- nonfiction
7. The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
By: Carlo Ginzburg , John Tedeschi , Anne Tedeschi
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through… read more
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- nonfiction
8. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
By: Barry Eichengreen
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
"Eichengreen's purpose is to provide a brief history of the international monetary system. In this,… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
9. Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
By: Daniel Stedman Jones
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
How did American and British policymakers become so enamored with free markets, deregulation, and l… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
10. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
By: Angus Deaton
3.57
Format: 160 pages, ebook
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Y… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
11. The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia
By: Nick Cullather
3.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. Where Communism goes, hunger follows was… read more
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12. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have reinforced the central importance of … read more
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13. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By: Kenneth Pomeranz
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more
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14. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
By: None
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret … read more
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15. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
16. Capitalism & Slavery
By: Eric Williams , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more
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17. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
By: Adom Getachew
4.12
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard hi… read more
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- nonfiction
- world history
18. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe
By: Rogers Brubaker
3.72
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Nationalism Reframed is a theoretically and historically informed study of nationalism in Eastern E… read more
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19. Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
By: Marixa Lasso
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Panama Canal's untold history―from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lass… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Global Development: A Cold War History
By: Sara Lorenzini
4.00
Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and econ… read more
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21. Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
By: Artemy M. Kalinovsky
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Artemy Kalinovsky's Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make prom… read more
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