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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>     sort list by title | author The Great War for Civilisation The Conquest of the Middle East Robert Fisk If you want a better understanding of recent Middle east history, this tome is a distillation of years of courageous reportage. Fisk is a truly gripping writer—he mixes fascinating on-the-ground narrative with deeply informed historical analysis that... 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann This is an important book. Mann presents such a massive amount of new material that it represents an absolute return to square-one for Western Hemisphere studies. Easy to understand, even... Imperial San Francisco Urban Power, Earthly Ruin Gray Brechin First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families--the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others--who gained power through mining, ranching, water and... A Crack in the Edge of the World America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 Simon Winchester Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. The Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln Sean Wilentz Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events."—Gordon Wood, New York Times Book ReviewAcclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians... The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour... Black Dahlia Avenger The True Story Steve Hodel This is so much more than a solution to a sixty-year-old mystery. Yes, the crime has, in my estimation, been solved. Even James Ellroy, whose mother may have been one of the perpetrator's victims, agrees. What is unsettling here is the author's journey... Istanbul Memories and the City Orhan Pamuk A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms... The Other Campaign Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Greg Ruggiero The Zapatista Call for Change from Below The Other Campaign is a collection of texts – in English and Spanish – by Subcomandante Marcos and his Zapatista compañeros that articulate a vision for “change from below,” a call to create social change outside and beyond... People's History of the United States 1492 to Present Howard Zinn Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American... Ghost Wars The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Kill the Indian, Save the Man The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools Ward Churchill For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. Perversions of Justice Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-american Law Ward Churchill The United States is readily distinguishable from other countries, Chief Justice John Marshall opined in 1803, because it is "a nation of laws, not of men." In Perversions of Justice, Ward Churchill takes Marshall at his word, exploring through a... Struggle for the Land Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization Ward Churchill This seminal book established Churchill as an intellectual force to be reckoned with in indigenous land rights debates. Required reading for anyone interested in Native North America and ecological justice. Revised and expanded edition.Ward Churchill... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >>>