A Concise History of the Caribbean (Cambridge Concise Histories)
By: B.W. Higman
3.63
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beg…
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1. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
By: Stephen Kinzer , Stephen C. Schlesinger
4.28
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democr… read more
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"The view of Central America as a region to be kept "safe" for American corporations was naturally not shared by all the people who lived there. To many guatemalans, United Fruit represented with perf…"-Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
"With intimidating financial resources and shrewd planning, the United Fruit Company thus deployed a platoon of lobbyists and publicists at a cost of over a half million dollars a year to convince Ame…"-Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
"A much more serious labor dispute was the two-year struggle in the late 1940s between the company and stevedores at Puerto Barrios over the issue of mechanization and a change in company pay policy f…"-Stephen Kinzer, Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
2. The Twelve Caesars
By: Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and u… read more
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3. The Cold War: A New History
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the g… read more
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"The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision."-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
"Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was t…"-John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History
4. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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5. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage
4.31
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more
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"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
6. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
By: Laurent Dubois
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brut… read more
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7. NW
By: Zadie Smith
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Set in northwest London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four locals--Leah, Natali… read more
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8. A Hero of Our Time
By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more
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9. Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller
3.99
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
10. The Lonely Londoners
By: Sam Selvon
3.82
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant, sharp, witty pen of Sam Selvon, his classic award-winning novel of immigrant li… read more
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11. Eugene Onegin
By: Alexander Pushkin , James E. Falen
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their lite… read more
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"He's happy now, he's almost sane."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you..."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
"I'm only writing this to show That I stopped sinning long ago."-Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
12. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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13. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
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"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
14. 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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15. A Brief History of Seven Killings
By: Marlon James
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Wome… read more
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16. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
17. A Concise History of the Caribbean (Cambridge Concise Histories)
By: B.W. Higman
3.63
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beg… read more
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