The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, 1898–1902 Vol. 2
This volume covers the imposition of the U.S. domination over Cuba through the Platt Amendment, which marks the beginning of U.S. neocolonialism. | more…
The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, 1895–1898 Vol. 1
Argues that the Cuban nation was a central protagonist in the conflict — rather than a passive victim of a conflict between great powers. | more…
The Dynamics of U.S. Capitalism (Economic History As It Happened, Vol. I)
This is the first of the series of four collections of essays in which Paul M. Sweezy and Harry Magdoff, the editors of Monthly Review, chronicled, as it was taking place, the development of U.S. and global capitalism from the end of its “golden age” in the late 1960s to the full onset of the financial explosion of the early 1990s and after. | more…
We, the Puerto Rican People: A Story of Oppression and Resistance
Silén restores to his people their history, stolen from them along with their land and independence. | more…
Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution
In his second book, Andre Gunder Frank expands on the theme presented in his influential study Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. It is the colonial structure of world capitalism, in his view, which produced and maintains the underdevelopment characteristic of Latin America and the rest of the Third World. This colonial structure penetrates everywhere in Latin America, forming and transforming all its features in obedience to its own imperatives and thereby imposing upon the region those characteristic features of poverty and backwardness which are not primarily the remnants of an ancient “feudal” past but the direct products of capitalism. This development of underdevelopment will persist, therefore, until the people of Latin America free themselves from world capitalism by means of revolution. The Cuban Revolution is thus viewed as the first effort in a continent-wide revolutionary process direct against both imperialism and the national bourgeoisie. | more…
Growth of the Modern West Indies
Analyzes West Indian society in detail from the First World War through the 1960s. | more…
Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases. Dr. Frank lays to rest the myth of Latin American feudalism, demonstrating in the process the impossibility of a bourgeois revolution in a part of the world which is already part and parcel of the capitalist system. | more…
Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought, a hugely influential book that continues to shape our understanding of modern capitalism. “This book… deals with a vital area of economics, has a unique approach, is stimulating and well written. It represents the first serious attempt to extend Marx’s model of competitive capitalism to the new conditions of monopoly capitalism.” — Howard J. Sherman, American Economic Review | more…
Cuba and the U.S.
The questions below were submitted, in writing, to Comandante Guevara by during the week of the invasion; the answers were received the end of June. | more…
Puerto Rico: 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…
We, the People: The Drama of America
“The Drama of America” is truly to be found between the covers of this classic book—an exhilarating and often tragic account of a nation and the struggles of those caught up in the processes of its becoming, written by Monthly Review founding co-editor Leo Huberman. A precursor to Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, and, like that book, immensely popular upon its release, We, the People recasts U.S. history from the perspectives of those far removed from official power: the anonymous toilers so often ignored by conventional histories. These are the men, women, and children who cleared the land and worked its fields, built and inhabited the factories, moved goods along the railways and canals and highways, and raised the next generation of workers whose exploited labor would propel the nation’s development. | more…