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A devastating critique of free-market politics from distinguished sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

The best single-volume history of the Revolution I have read.Howard ZinnThe first major effort to tell the history of the American Revolution from the often overlooked standpoints of its everyday participants, A Peoples History of the American Revolution is a highly accessible narrative of the wartime experience that brings in the stories of previously marginalized voices: the common people, slave and free, who made up the majority in eighteenth-century America.This first volume in The New Press Peoples History Series skillfully weaves diaries, personal letters, and other long-overlooked primary source material into the historical narrative. The result is a remarkable first-person perspective on the events leading up to and during the war. With a simple shift of the focus of historys lensaway from Revolutionary leaders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and on to the slaves they owned, the Indians they displaced, and the men and boys who did the fightingauthor Ray Raphael brings us a true peoples history of the Revolutionary experience.

An accessible reader collating previously classified NSA documents relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the world came perilously close to nuclear war.

Nations worry about their shrinking sovereignty as large numbers of immigrants cross borders at will. This collection of essays asks if globalization is killing off the nation state.

An illuminating documentary history that reveals the effects of US military ventures on more than 100 years of American life.

A colletction of correspondence, personal testimonies and official transcripts documenting the history of emancipation in the United States. Edited by legendary author Ira Berlin.

The renowned activist's impassioned look at gangs and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.