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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
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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.
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici · 285 pages
The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000
John Tutino · 512 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
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson · 402 pages
What was it about the civilization of Western Europe that allowed it to trump the outwardly superior empires of the Orient? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues, was that the West developed six "killer applications"?that the Rest lacked: competition, science, democracy, medicine, consumerism and the work ethic. The key question today is whether or not the West has lost its monopoly on these six thing
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr · 513 pages
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike Davis · 467 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
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Shashi Tharoor · 360 pages
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels · 56 pages
"The Communist Manifesto," penned by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is a revolutionary treatise advocating for the overthrow of capitalist systems and the establishment of a classless society. Published in 1848, its succinct yet powerful prose remains a cornerstone of socialist ideology, inspiring movements worldwide.
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.
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk · 596 pages
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
David Treuer · 512 pages
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · 320 pages
The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865
Mark Peterson · 784 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 Age of Empire, 1875-1914
Eric Hobsbawm · 404 pages
Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz · 528 pages
Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Eugene Finkel · 336 pages
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C.L.R. James · 426 pages
En 1789, les deux tiers du commerce extérieur de la France se faisaient avec sa colonie antillaise de Saint-Domingue, laquelle représentait le plus grand marché de la traite européenne des esclaves. La plus grosse colonie du monde, fierté de la France et objet de convoitise de toutes les autres nations impérialistes, faisait partie intégrante de la vie économique d'alors. Tout cet ensemble reposai
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
Alan Taylor · 535 pages
"In American Colonies, historian Alan Taylor challenges the traditional Anglocentric focus of colonial history by exploring the many cultural influences that gave birth to America. The result is a superlative history of the prerevolutionary era in North America that is unprecedented in its scope and sure to become a landmark."--BOOK JACKET.
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz · 296 pages
India's Struggle for Independence
Bipan Chandra · 600 pages