The official release date is June 11, but the latest volume of Wallerstein’s opus has started arriving in people’s mailboxes. Not to be confused with another book Wallerstein has just released, undoubtedly also worth looking into. The blurbs: “Wallerstein is a pleasure to read for his lucid organization of vast materials and his eye for [...]
“Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective“ is the forthcoming book from scott crow, whose experiences with FBI surveillance were chronicled in the New York Times. Publisher’s description: “Tracing a life of radical activism and the emergence of a grassroots organization in the face of disaster, this chronicle describes scott crow’s headlong rush into the political storm surrounding the catastrophic [...]
This is an excellent book from which you will learn a great deal of history you never heard in school. Learn about our gay presidents. Learn how J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed everyone in Washington, including presidents, to get his way, and how the mob in turn blackmailed Hoover. From the blurbs: “Americans often like to [...]
From the blurbs: “Ho-fung Hung’s book is for early modern China what Charles Tilly’s Vendee was for early modern France — a pathbreaking, quantitative study of political protest and the social conditions behind it. Hung demonstrates that the evolution of popular protest in China did not simply recapitulate that of Western Europe; his detailed archival research shows [...]
Imperialist Canada undoes the evasion that particular imperialist actions are the exception to the rule in Canada, but it is hampered by its conventional political economy framework. Few features of the political culture here in Canada are more likely to set my teeth on edge than the devotion not only of the right and [...]
Kari Marie Norgaard helps us understand how and why societies fail to act on climate change in Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life (MIT Press, 2011) By Christine Shearer Don’t be fooled by the title of Kari Marie Norgaard’s Living in Denial – this is not a book about people who reject the [...]
Mark Rifkin shows how the “romance plot” of “normal” heterosexuality and the nuclear family was used to justify destruction of the fabric of Indian life and set the stage for settler claims on Indian territory. Sallustius wrote of the myths of Attis that, “This never happened but it always is.” It’s appropriate for Mark Rifkin [...]
Publisher’s Description: “Featuring the testimony of close to seventy Iraqis from all backgrounds and occupations – from onetime Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to insurgents speaking on the condition of anonymity - Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009 builds a riveting chronological history unmatched for its insight and revelations. Beginning in 2003, this intimate narrative [...]
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