5 must-read economics books like The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development by Sara Roy

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The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development

By: Sara Roy

4.74

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In this ground-breaking and comprehensive study, Sara Roy examines in detail the political economy …

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1. Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The noble soul reveres itself"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"...all that is rare is for the rare."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"One is punished most for one’s virtues."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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2. The Racial Contract

By: Charles W. Mills

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory to extraordinary radical use. Wi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This acclaimed study surveys the dominant popular and scholarly images of the Israel–Palestine conf… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Being and Nothingness

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Hazel E. Barnes , Mary Warnock , Richard Eyre

3.99

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

Being & Nothingness is without doubt one of the most significant philosophical books of the 20th ce… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

"Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own gain. In a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The German Ideology

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history

9. The Question of Palestine

By: None

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Still a basic and indespensible account of the Palestinian question, updated to include the most re… read more

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10. 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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11. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

By: Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , David Macey

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

An examination of relations between war and politics From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Fouc… read more

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12. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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13. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

14. 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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15. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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16. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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17. 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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18. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

4.66

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

By: Noura Erakat

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-P… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"International law can be accurately and fairly described as a derivative of a colonial order and therefore structurally detrimental to former colonies, peoples still under colonial domination and ind…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"Israel's establishment in 1948 realized Jewish Zionist settler sovereignty in Palestine. And its acceptance as a UN member state normalized the sovereign exception, justifying the erasure of Palestin…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"In light of the currently minimal protest at top diplomatic and multilateral levels, Israel, together with the United States, will continue to define its military practices as the new normal in asymm…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

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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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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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22. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

By: Quinn Slobodian

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
"Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal ­century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained bal…"

-Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

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23. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

By: Tareq Baconi

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Hamas rules Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there. Demonized in media a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The prevailing inability or unwillingness to talk about Hamas in a nuanced manner is deeply familiar. During the summer of 2014, when global newsrooms were covering Israel’s military operation in the…"

-Tareq Baconi, Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures)

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24. Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class (Essential Mike Davis)

By: Mike Davis

4.38

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analyt… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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25. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development

By: Sara Roy

4.74

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In this ground-breaking and comprehensive study, Sara Roy examines in detail the political economy … read more

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16 Top history books like The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development by Sara Roy

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Racial Contract

Charles W. Mills

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Norman G. Finkelstein

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

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On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt

4.07

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