Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
By: Andrew B. Liu
3.98
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the comp…
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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. 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. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
4. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
5. 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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- economics
6. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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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. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
By: Sidney W. Mintz
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Traces the history of sugar production and consumption, examines its relationship with slavery, cla… read more
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11. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
By: None
4.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the Amer… read more
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12. 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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13. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more
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14. Empire of Cotton: A Global History
By: Sven Beckert
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Hardcover
The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, a… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
18. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
19. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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- history
20. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea (California World History Library) (Volume 24)
By: Johan Mathew
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the p… read more
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25. Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine
By: Sherene Seikaly
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. … read more
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26. Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.98
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrat… read more
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27. Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
By: Laleh Khalili
3.99
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalismIn our networked world, the realitie… read more
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28. Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
By: Lulu Yilun Chen
3.96
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
*REVISED AND UPDATED**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK 2022**A TIMES BUSINESS BOOK… read more
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29. Reconsidering Reparations (Philosophy of Race)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.53
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. M… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
By: Andrew B. Liu
3.98
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the comp… read more
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- asia
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- food
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- india
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31. Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam (Columbia/Hurst)
By: Abdul Sherrif
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For centuries the dhow, a traditional Arab sailing vessel, operated according to the principles of … read more
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