The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance
By: Jamie Martin
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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2. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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3. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
By: Adam Tooze
3.37
Format: 395 pages, Hardcover
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the d… read more
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4. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
5. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
6. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
7. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
8. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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9. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more
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"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
10. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
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"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
11. 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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12. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
13. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
14. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
By: Clara E. Mattei
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas Pike… read more
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15. 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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16. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
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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18. 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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19. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
By: Julius S. Scott
4.30
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Th… read more
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20. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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21. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
By: Henry Farrell
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more
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22. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
By: Oswaldo Zavala
4.08
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z… read more
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23. 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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24. The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
By: Dan Davies
4.07
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
'Entertaining, insightful ... compelling' Financial Times 'A clear and compelling account of how de… read more
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25. The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
By: Gabriel Winant
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Men in hardhats were once the heart of America's working class; now it is women in scrubs. What doe… read more
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26. The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes
By: Stefan Eich
4.07
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s … read more
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27. The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
By: Adrienne Buller
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater … read more
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"How can we, despite countless government pledges and programmes and a groundswell of civic society, remain quietly on course to sacrifice swathes of this planet's people and lifeforms to the demands …"-Adrienne Buller, The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
28. The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism
By: Fritz Bartel
4.46
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the… read more
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29. The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance
By: Jamie Martin
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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30. Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
By: Didac Queralt
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
How foreign lending weakens emerging nations In the nineteenth century, many developing countries … read more
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31. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Histories of Economic Life)
By: Amy C. Offner
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America pro… read more
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