A People's History of the World

The Assassination Of Julius Caesar: A People's History Of Ancient Rome

Michael Parenti · 218 pages

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici · 285 pages

Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression

Robin D.G. Kelley · 392 pages

A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: d

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza Aslan · 336 pages

Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee gathering followers to establish the "Kingdom of God." He was tortured and executed as a state criminal. Within decades, his followers would call him God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens

A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

Orlando Figes · 923 pages

It is a history on an epic yet human scale. Orlando Figes provides a panorama of Russian society on the eve of the revolution, and then narrates the story of how these social forces were violently suppressed. Within the broad strokes of war and revolution are miniature histories of individuals - pieced together from their private writings - in which Figes follows the main players' fortunes as they

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Karl Marx, Daniel de Leon · 131 pages

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg · 460 pages

A history of poor whites in America, mainly in the South.

A 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.

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois · 192 pages

Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Jared Diamond · 592 pages

"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates?" "As in Guns, G

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Friedrich Engels · 336 pages

"The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the best study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels's first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. T

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang · 544 pages

"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan · 340 pages

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson R. Cowie · 464 pages

Asserts that the 1970s were the last stand of the American working class, a time when the goals of the New Deal finally faded away to make room for Reaganomics and a widening of the gap between classes.

The Making of the English Working Class

E.P. Thompson · 848 pages

Thompson turned history on its head by focusing on the political agency of the people, whom historians had treated as anonymous masses.

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Francis Fukuyama · 608 pages

Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.

Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth-Century to Modern Times

Lucy Lethbridge · 385 pages

From the immense staff running a lavish Edwardian estate and the lonely maid-of-all-work cooking in a cramped middle-class house to the poor child doing chores in a slightly less poor household, servants were essential to the British way of life. They were hired not only for their skills but also to demonstrate the social standing of their employers -- even as they were required to tread softly an

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

Candace Fleming · 298 pages

From the acclaimed author of Amelia Lost and The Lincolns comes a heartrending narrative nonfiction page-turner--and a perfect resource for meeting Common Core standards. When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their

The Middle East

Bernard Lewis · 448 pages

"As the Birthplace of three religions and many civilizations, the Middle East has for centuries been a center of knowledge and ideas, of techniques and commodities, and, at times, of military and political power. With the historical - and still growing - importance of the Middle East in modern politics, historian Bernard Lewis's cogent and scholary writing brings a wider understanding of the cultu

The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000

John Tutino · 512 pages

Ill Fares the Land

Tony Judt · 256 pages

In "Ill Fares The Land," Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment and offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, Judt argues that we must look to our not so distant past and to socia

London Labour and the London Poor

Henry Mayhew, Victor E. Neuburg · 450 pages

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Daniel James Brown · 416 pages

Daniel James Brown’s robust book tells the story of the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing f

London: The Biography

Peter Ackroyd · 824 pages

"London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.". "Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches