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…
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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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"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
2. Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era
By: Elaine Tyler May
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism… read more
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3. 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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4. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
By: None , Bela Shayevich
4.29
Format: 192 pages,
From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. The Whig Interpretation of History
By: Herbert Butterfield
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
It is not as easy to understand the past as many who have written it would have us believe. The his… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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"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
12. 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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13. Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India
By: Nikhil Menon
3.93
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly… read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Passing to America: Antonio (Nee Maria) Yta’s Transgressive, Transatlantic Life in the Twilight of the Spanish Empire
By: Thomas A. Abercrombie
3.83
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented … read more
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19. Moral Majorities across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right
By: Benjamin A. Cowan
3.89
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This new history of the Christian right does not stop at national or religious boundaries. Benjamin… read more
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20. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil
By: Jessica Lynn Graham
4.75
Format: 391 pages, Paperback
This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to … read more
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21. The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
By: Sarah Cameron
4.40
Format: None pages, ebook
"The book brings the largely unknown story of the Kazakh famine of 1930-33 to light, using this cas… read more
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