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Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim CrowThe histories of Cuba and the United States are tightly intertwinedand have been for at least two centuries. In Race to Revolution, historian Gerald Horne examines a critical relationship betweenthe two countries by tracing out the typically overlooked interconnectionsamong slavery, Jim Crow, and revolution....
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Socialism or Barbarism: From the American Century to the CrossroadsIstván Meszáros's bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. Drawing on the theoretical arguments of his monumental and widely-acclaimed work, Beyond Capital, Mészáros shows that the economic boom of the 1990s was built not only...
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Zapatista Encuentro: Documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and Against NeoliberalismWhy is everyone so quiet? Is this the democracy you wanted? So ask the Zapatistas, the group of indigenous Mexicans who, on January 1, 1994, mounted a rebellion against the implementation of NAFTA, political corruption, and the slow, unreported genocide of indigenous people worldwide....
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The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of GovernmentOne of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "10 Books Everyone Should Read" This fascinating study of democracy in the 21st century is a much-needed call for citizens to reach across the aisle and put power back into the hands of individuals--not Big Government Eric...
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Necessary Trouble: Americans in RevoltNecessary Trouble is the definitive book on the movements that are poised to permanently remake American politics. We are witnessing a moment of unprecedented political turmoil and social activism. Over the last few years, we've seen the growth of the Tea Party, a twenty-first-century...
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Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't DoWhat is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked...
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Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and PracticeTraditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Solutions to environmental problems, then, must be products of concession, negotiation, and inevitable compromise--a world of top-down planetary management. Lipschutz challenges students to question these conventional approaches....
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Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower"Bravo A vivid, well-aimed critique of the evils of US global interventionism, a superb antidote to officialdom's lies and propaganda."--Michael Parenti"Rogue State forcibly reminds us of Vice President Agnew's immortal line, 'The United States, for all its faults, is still the greatest nation in...
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Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a PeopleA groundbreaking book that dissects a slanderous history dating from cinema's earliest days to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters that feature machine-gun wielding and bomb-blowing "evil" Arabs Award-winning film authority Jack G. Shaheen, noting that only Native Americans have been more relentlessly smeared on the silver...
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Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the WorldWas America's response to the 9/11 attacks at the root of today's instability and terror? Because of various factors, including climate change, ISIS, the war in Syria, the growing numbers of immigrants, and the growing strength of fascist parties in Europe, commentators have increasingly...
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Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never SeeFor fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America's eighth-largest city has a dark side. Behind Sea World, the zoo, the Gaslamp District, and the beaches of La Jolla hides a...
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Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite MoviesRadical Hollywood is the first comprehensive history of the Hollywood Left. From the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner trace the political and personal lives of the screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers on the Left and the...
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American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political EssaysAmerican Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky's first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as...
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The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic WorldThe internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this "lucid, informed, and insightful" account (The New York Times). The United States currently finds itself a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few...
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Subversion as Foreign PolicyThis account of US foreign policy reveals the story of the covert activity in Indonesia undertaken by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the late 1950s.Author: Audrey R. KahinPublisher: New PressPublished: 05/01/1995Pages: 332Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 9.55h x 6.42w x...
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The Iran-Contra ScandalOn the news at this time is the question of the hostages, then vice president George Bush noted in his secret diary on November 5, 1986, two days after a Lebanese newspaper broke the first story of the Reagan administration's efforts to trade arms...
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We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and Other Works: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, Volume OneWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child;...
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Modern IranCovering the period from the early nineteenth century to the present day, Modern Iran: A History in Documents brings together primary sources in translation that shed light on aspects of the political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of modern Iran. It makes use of...
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Taino Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural PoliticsThis stimulating and timely collection examines the Ta no revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the pre-Columbian Ta no Indian population of Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean.The Ta...
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A History of YugoslaviaWhy did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history...
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