Review imprint: 1779 books
by Hal Draper, Ernest Haberkern
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Marx and Engels' views on war, revolution and the relation between the two exolved over time in response to the turbulent political and military history of the nineteenth centurey. The result has been widespread confusion among historians and in the socialist movement. The tendency has been to search...
A Redder Shade of Green
Intersections of Science and Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
A socialist response to the looming ecological crisis
As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and eco-socialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural...
Our Supreme Court
A History with 14 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This lively and comprehensive activity book teaches young readers everything they need to know about the nation's highest court. Organized around keystones of the Constitution-including free speech, freedom of religion, civil rights, criminal justice, and property rights-the book juxtaposes...
Carnival Campaign
How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" Changed Presidential Elections Forever
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Carnival Campaign tells the fascinating story of the pivotal 1840 presidential campaign of General William Henry Harrison and John Tyler—"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." Pulitzer Prize–nominated former Wall Street Journal reporter Ronald Shafer relates in a colorful, entertaining style...
The Resurgence of Central Asia
Islam or Nationalism?
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia following the collapse of Tsarist Russia, this book has been out of print for two decades and is now more relevent than ever.
The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid’s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the...
No Fear
A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Retracing the steps of the first civil rights and whistleblower act of the 21st century, this chronicle follows young, black, MIT-educated social scientist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, shortly after she landed her dream job at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The account illustrates how the author...
The Unknown Cultural Revolution
Life and Change in a Chinese Village
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China’s Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social upheaval led to economic disaster, the persecution of intellectuals, and senseless violence. Dongping Han offers a powerful account of the dramatic...
Humanitarian Imperialism
Using Human Rights to Sell War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Since the end of the Cold War, the idea of human rights has been made into a justification for intervention by the world's leading economic and military powers—above all, the United States—in countries that are vulnerable to their attacks. The criteria for such intervention have become more arbitrary...
Confronting Black Jacobins
The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also...
by Edward S. Herman, David Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In this impressive book, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson examine the uses and abuses of the word “genocide.” They argue persuasively that the label is highly politicized and that in the United States it is used by the government, journalists, and academics to brand as evil those nations...
Rightfully Ours
How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Though the Declaration of Independence stated that all men are created equal,” married women and girls in the early days of the United States had few rights. For better or worse, their lives were controlled by their husbands and fathers. Married women could not own property, and few girls were...
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution
How the Working Class Shaped the Guerillas’ Victory
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerillas. In this unique and stimulating book, Stephen Cushion turns the conventional wisdom on its head, and argues that...
by Bruce Neuburger
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger—young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley—took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous...
The Wages of Guilt
Memories of War in Germany and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this now classic book, internationally famed journalist Ian Buruma examines how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their conduct during World War II—a war that they aggressively began and humiliatingly lost, and in the course of which they committed monstrous war crimes. As...