Dominion from sea to sea: Pacific ascendancy and American power - Bruce Cumings America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world’s…
Dancing in the glory of monsters: The collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa - Jason K. Stearns At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering…
1967: Israel, the war, and the year that transformed the Middle East - Tom Segev Tom Segev's acclaimed works One Palestine, Complete and The Seventh Million overturned accepted…
Empire's workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism - Greg Grandin The British and Roman empires are often invoked as precedents to the Bush…
IRA man: Talking with the rebels - Douglass McFerran This is the compelling story of a former Jesuit who traveled to Ireland in order to better understand the IRA, its widespread support among Irish…
To end all wars: A story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational…
Infinite jest - David Foster Wallace Somewhere in the not-so-distant future, the screwed-up residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at…
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the American West - Dee Brown Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic…
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and schizophrenia - Gille Deleuze and Felix Guttari Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: L'anti-Oedipe) is a 1972 book by the French…
A contribution to the critique of political economy - Karl Marx First published in 1859, the book is mainly an analysis of capitalism, achieved by critiquing the…
An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital - Michael Heinrich The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a…
How late it was, how late - James Kelman "Literary vandalism" and "frankly, crap" was the high praise for Kelman's only Booker Prize winning novel, about Sammy, a middle aged man coming…