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…
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…
The Military Art of People’s War : Selected Writings of General Vo Nguyen Giap
This collection includes the major writings of General Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times. The book includes writings from the 1940s to the end of the 1960s and is presented here with a valuable historical introduction by Russell Stetler. | 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…
The Explosion: Marxism and the French Upheaval
Explores the full sweep of Marxist Thinking on social change in the light of the 1968 French explosion. | more…
Growth of the Modern West Indies
Analyzes West Indian society in detail from the First World War through the 1960s. | 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…
The Great Road: 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…
Man’s Worldly Goods: 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…
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…