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The Highland Clearances were one of many blots of the development of the modern world. The story of the way that the Highlander crofters w...

In the introduction to this volume the series editor feels obliged to justify the length of the work itself. He points out that almost eve...

Marx's Civil War in France is both an impressive history of the Paris Commune – the short lived, but important moment in working cla...

Before reviewing this book, I want to mention how I came about it. On holiday just south of Oban on the west coast of Scotland, I visited Ki...

If you can ignore the somewhat sycophantic paeans to Al Gore that make up some of this book, and the all too demoralising hopes vested in th...

Environmental archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan has written a number of excellent books on the historical links between environmenta...

Thomas Patterson sets out to argue that central to Marx's understanding of the world, history and society was what we might now call ant...

George MacDonald Fraser is most famous for his highly entertaining Flashman novels. At the centre of those stories, which follow the adven...

According to the blurb on the back cover of Kieran Allen's latest book, it "provides a crucial alternative introduction to Marx for...

There are many histories of the Second World War. Most of them deal with the battles and military campaigns, or the leaders of armies and ...

The period covered by this work of history is a period which saw an inexorable change to country life. From the late 18th century onwards,...

Detailing his time in the Royal Navy during World War II, Three Corvettes is actually Monsarrat's embellished diaries. The Corvettes w...

The battle of the Somme defies numerical analysis. Mere military statistics have little meaning when used to describe suffering and death on...

Much of Walden Bello's Food Wars covers ground discussed in Magdoff and Tokar's book which I reviewed previously here . Indeed Bel...

The question of agriculture and food is one of the most pressing issues for society in the early 21st century. It is inextricably linked t...

Given the historical importance of the English Civil War, it is surprisingly little understood. At school we had a rudimentary introduction...

This is rather an unashamedly sentimental novel. Set in the last decades of the 19th century and progressing into the early quarter of the...