Imperialism: From the Colonial Age to the Present
This volume contains a series of essays aimed at illuminating the theory, history, and roots of imperialism, which extend the analysis developed in Madgoff’s The Age of Imperialism 1978. See The Age of Imperialism… | more |
Most of Andre Gunder Frank’s early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one region: Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America to the industrial and French revolutions. It is Frank’s thesis that “the world has experienced a single all-embracing, albeit unequal and uneven, process of capital accumulation centered in Western Europe,” which has been capitalist for at least two centuries.… | more |
Writings on Latin America and the Struggle for Cuban Independence
Presents the celebrated Cuban revolutionary’s thoughts on “Nuestra America,” the Latin American Martí fought to make free.… | more |
Chronicles the 1975 offensive of the Vietnam Peoples Army and the uprisings that secured the liberation of South Vietnam. 1977.… | more |
Notes on the Puerto Rican Revolution
An Essay on American Dominance and Caribbean Resistance
This essay on Puerto Rico analyzes the deepening crisis in American capitalism and how it inevitably affects Puerto Rico. Essentially, Lewis asks and seeks to answer three questions: What is the nature of Puerto Rican society after a decade of dramatic and traumatic change? What should be the strategy of freedom? What can be, ought to be, the nature of the new Puerto Rican society, once it is released from American rule?… | more |
Exploding the Myth
Most of us have been taught to think of Christopher Columbus as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to “discover” the Americas. In this beautifully written revisionist biography, accessible to people of all ages, Hans Koning gives us the true history of Columbus’ life and voyages.… | more |
Writings on the United States and American Imperialism
Explores the emergent threat of U.S. imperialism from 1881 to 1895.… | more |
Bukharin’s 1929 anticipation of the growth of the internationalization of capital.… | more |
The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune
Compelling narrative of Norman Bethune, revolutionary doctor in Mao’s China.… | more |
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.… | more |