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Friday, June 28, 2024

Gregory F. Michno - Lakota Noon: The Indian Narrative of Custer's Defeat

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One of the notable things about visiting the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn today is how it has been changed, under pressure from ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Alastair Reynolds - Machine Vendetta

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Machine Vendetta is the final novel of the Prefect trilogy, a series of hard science-fiction novels by Alastair Reynolds. It is set in the Y...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Thomas Kaufmann - The Saved and the Damned

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When Martin Luther penned his 95 Theses against the Church he began a process that was to have far reaching implications. It would have far ...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Ernest Belfort Bax - The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptists

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This is the third volume of Belfort Bax's trilogy of books on the "social side of the Reformation in Germany". As I have alrea...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Dee Brown - Showdown at Little Big Horn

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I knew of Dee Brown as a historian of Native American peoples. His most famous book is, of course, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . Some year...
Saturday, June 08, 2024

Tommy Orange - Wandering Stars

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***Spoilers for both of Tommy Orange's books*** Tommy Orange's second novel Wandering Stars is closely linked to his first, There,...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun

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Having read Ivan Doig's beautiful memoir about growing up in rural Montana before I visited that state recently, I was keen to read one...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Gerald Horne - The Dawning of the Apocalypse

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Gerald Horne's earlier book  The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism described the horrors that arose from European colonialism in the Ame...
Friday, May 24, 2024

Duncan Hallas - The Great Revolutions

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Duncan Hallas was a leading activist and Trotskyist in post-war Britain. He was part of the networks that became the International Socialist...
Thursday, May 23, 2024

Marcus Rediker - The Fearless Benjamin Lay

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Of all the people who resisted slavery and fought for its end, Benjamin Lay is perhaps one of the most fascinating and tenacious. Born in 16...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present

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Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is a remarkable book in several senses. The first is it's scope, by which...
Monday, May 06, 2024

Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove

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Some years ago when I first planned a trip to Montana I was gifted Larry McMurtry's book Lonesome Dove as one of the classic works of f...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Brad Tyer - Opportunity, Montana

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Early on in Brad Tyer's book about the town of Opportunity he makes a telling point about the brochures that advertise the tourist mecca...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

James Donovan - A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn

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James Donovan's A Terrible Glory is widely described as the definitive account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It certainly is a re...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Peter Blickle - Communal Reformation: The Quest for Salvation in Sixteenth Century Germany

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What was the Reformation? A simple explanation would be that it was the movement of reform inititated within the Catholic Church by Martin L...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Jim Harrison - Legends of the Fall

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Best known today from the Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt film, Legends of the Fall was Jim Harrison's breakthrough collection of three no...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell (eds) - Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region

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About twenty years ago me, and a large number of other activists, attended an environmental conference in London. One of the workshops at th...
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