28 Top nonfiction books like The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic by Paolo Gerbaudo

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The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic

By: Paolo Gerbaudo

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societ…

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1. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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2. The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers

By: Ann Pettifor

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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5. The Long Twentieth Century

By: Giovanni Arrighi

3.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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7. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

By: Adam Tooze

None

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. 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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  • nonfiction
"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

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9. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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10. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

By: David Wallace-Wells

4.01

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"

-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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11. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

By: Nancy Fraser

4.04

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. 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
  • nonfiction
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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

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14. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

By: Mark Leibovich

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller "He's one of the best chroniclers of politics today." -Jake Tapp… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

By: Nicole Hemmer

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politic… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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17. The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

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18. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. 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
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20. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

By: Matthias Schmelzer

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

By: Matthew T. Huber

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"

-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

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22. White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

By: Andreas Malm

4.49

Format: None pages, ebook

Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet? In the fi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

By: Douglas Rushkoff

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"

-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

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24. 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
"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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25. Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy

By: David Broder

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and s… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century

By: Alex Hochuli

3.94

Format: None pages, None

The “End of History” is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the “final form of human … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine

By: Andrew Cockburn

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why does America go to war? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders o… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. An Army Like No Other: How the Israeli Defense Force Made a Nation

By: Haim Bresheeth

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A history of the IDF that argues that Israel is a nation formed by its army. The Israeli army, o… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism by Adrienne Buller

29. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"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

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30. Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

4.02

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "me… read more

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"They made data a controlled substance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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31. The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic

By: Paolo Gerbaudo

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societ… read more

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28 must-read politics books like The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic by Paolo Gerbaudo

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Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers

Ann Pettifor

3.44

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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Long Twentieth Century

Giovanni Arrighi

3.65

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On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

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