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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
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Include books by the same authorA People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · 702 pages
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, *A People's History of the United States* is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Eduardo Galeano · 338 pages
The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000
John Tutino · 512 pages
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici · 285 pages
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
David S. Landes · 650 pages
David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's cultures lead to - or retard - economic and military success and material achievement. Countries of the West, Landes asserts, prospered early thro
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · 512 pages
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Shashi Tharoor · 360 pages
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Alex von Tunzelmann · 440 pages
"The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to
Stolen Continents: 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
Ronald Wright · 424 pages
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann · 631 pages
From the author of 1491 -- the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas -- a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher C
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk · 596 pages
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild · 375 pages
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian.
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World
David E. Stannard · 358 pages
For four hundred years - from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s - the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as one hundred million people. I
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Niall Ferguson · 416 pages
In this book Niall Ferguson argues that the British Empire should be regarded not merely as vanished Victoriana but as the very cradle of modernity. Nearly all the key features of the twenty-first-century world can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population, and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth--economic globalization, the communicati
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins · 301 pages
Sinhalese translation of a controversial book on the economic policies of U.S. government with respect to developing countries.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 320 pages
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr · 513 pages
Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Eugene Finkel · 336 pages
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown · 512 pages
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Julian Sancton · 384 pages
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
Vijay Prashad · 374 pages
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · 456 pages
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What hap
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
Yasmin Khan · 251 pages
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
Lawrence James · 722 pages
"This is the story of one of the wonders of the modern world. In less than a hundred years, the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan." "None of this, however, was planned. A series of emergencies in the eighteenth century transformed the East India Company into the most formidable