A Story of Oppression and Resistance
Silén restores to his people their history, stolen from them along with their land and independence.… | more |
History of the Upper Guinea Coast
1545–1800
Walter Rodney is revered throughout the Caribbean as a teacher, a hero, and a martyr. This book remains the foremost work on the region.… | more |
Growth of the Modern West Indies
Analyzes West Indian society in detail from the First World War through the 1960s.… | more |
Marxism and the French Upheaval
Explores the full sweep of Marxist Thinking on social change in the light of the 1968 French explosion.… | more |
Freedom and Power in the Caribbean
Details the history of modern Puerto Rico, advancing independence and socialism as the answer to the Puerto Rican tragedy.… | more |
The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook
Boggs offers both a keen analysis of U.S. society and a passionate call for revolutionary struggle. He sees the growing trend toward automation, the decline of organized labor, the expansion of imperialism, and the deepening of racial strife as fundamentally rooted in the contradictions of U.S. capitalism. And he concludes that the only way forward is a new American revolution—one that, from his perspective writing in the 1960s, appeared to have already begun.… | more |
The Life and Times of Chu Teh
Chu Teh, one of the legendary figures of the Chinese Revolution, was born in 1886. He was commander in chief of the People’s Revolutionary Army, and this is the story of the first sixty years of his life. As a supreme commanding general, he was probably unique; surely there has never been another commander in chief who, during his years of service, spun, wove, set type, grew and cooked his own food, wrote poetry and lectured not only to his troops on military strategy and tactics but to women’s classes on how to preserve vegetables. Evans Carlson wrote that “Chu Teh has the kindness of a Robert E. Lee, the tenacity of a Grant, and the humility of a Lincoln.”… | more |
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
“The most successful attempt to date to humanize the Dismal Science and link the history of man to the history of economic theory.” —The New Yorker… | more |
The Drama of America
“In combining the art of a fiction writer with the skill of a historian, Mr. Huberman has provided in this book a history of the American people that can be read and understood by any intelligent child above the age of ten… There is not a dull page in the book… graphic and gripping from beginning to end… An authentic contribution to historical literature.” — The Nation … | more |