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Friday, May 31, 2019

Massimo Livi Bacci - Our Shrinking Planet

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Massimo Livi Bacci is a distinguished professor of demography and this short book is his attempt to explain what population changes mean ...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Deborah E. Lipstadt - The Eichmann Trail

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While campaigning in recent elections against the far-right and fascists I've been drawn, once again, to historical events to try and ...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Paul Morland - The Human Tide

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Contemporary books on population are often, at best, frustrating. At worst they are apologies for anti-human policies that see people as t...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Julian Rathbone - The Mutiny

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There have been plenty of novels set during the Indian "Mutiny" of 1857. In fact, it was a George MacDonald Fraser novel  Flashm...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

Penny McCall Howard - Environment, Labour & Capitalism at Sea: 'Working the Ground' in Scotland

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Working at sea in the fishing industry is 115 time more dangerous than the UK average. It's a startling statistic, that is usually exp...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Steven King - Writing the Lives of the English Poor: 1750s-1830s

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Steven King's book is a detailed, academic, textual study of an archive of 26,000 letters written by claimants for poor relief to pari...
Monday, May 06, 2019

Jim Bell - The Interstellar Age

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Voyagers One and Two were launched in 1977 and, by a lucky chance of birth, this has meant for much of my life their missions have been a ...
Saturday, May 04, 2019

Talat Ahmed - Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience

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One of the most exciting things about radical politics in the UK in 2019 has been the emergence of mass protest movements against environm...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019

Alan Thornett - Facing the Apocalypse: Arguments for Ecosocialism

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I've known Alan Thornett for many years, most recently through work in the environmental movement as part of the Campaign Against Clim...

Dee Brown - The Fetterman Massacre

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Dee Brown is the celebrated author of one of the most famous books on the Native Americans - Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee . It is a class...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Victor Lavalle - The Ballad of Black Tom

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***Contains Spoilers*** I've never really had much time for the works of H.P. Lovecraft - all those over-long descriptions of eldrit...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Hanna Jameson - The Last

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It has been three years since Donald Trump's election which means that those authors who were inspired to write post-apocalyptic ficti...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Nick Estes - Our History is the Future

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In 2016 a protest encampment at Standing Rock in the US state of North Dakota became a symbol of resistance to fossil capitalism. The camp...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

CJ Sansom - Sovereign

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The period of Henry VIII 's rule in England has furnished plenty of material for authors of historical fiction. For CJ Sansom it is th...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Kim A. Wagner - Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear & the Making of a Massacre

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I am posting this review on the centenary of the Amritsar Massacre which took place on April 13 1919. On that day Brigadier-General Regina...
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