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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Emir Sader - The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left

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Over the last decade and a half or so Latin America has, along with the Arab Revolutions, been one area of hope for those of us who hope t...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Rachel Hewitt - Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

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For those readers outside of the UK, the phrase "Ordnance Survey" will probably mean very little. But for millions of Britons ov...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Carolyn Ives Gilman - Ison of the Isles

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Ison of the Isles is the sequel to the marvellously original novel Isles of the Forsaken which I reviewed a few weeks ago. It is such a ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Leon Trotsky - 1905

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Lenin described the revolution in Russia in 1905 as the "great dress rehearsal  for the revolution of 1917 which seized power. As a r...
Friday, February 01, 2013

John Romer - A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid

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The very idea of Ancient Egypt conjures up some obvious images; the pyramids and Sphinx in Giza, frescoes and carvings showing boats plyin...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger - The Year 1000

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There are an enormous number of differences between the years M and MM in the British Isles. Many of these are of course technological. Pl...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Mike Gonzalez & Houman Barekat - Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring

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The classic Marxist account of the State is that it is the collective institutions within society that help ensure the continued position ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Christian Wolmar - Fire & Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain

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Christian Wolmar is an unashamed fan of railways. This is not because he has some sort of obsessional trainspotting tendencies, but rather...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Richard Fortey - The Earth: An Intimate History

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Geology as a subject is one that most people know very little about. Few of us understand the processes that formed the world around us. H...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Peter Alexander, Luke Sinwell & others - Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer

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When footage of the massacre of some 34 platinum mineworkers at Marikana in South Africa reached television screens around the world it pr...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

N.A.M. Rodger - The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1642 - 1815

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The subtitle of this book is "A Naval History of Britain". The of is important because this and its companion volumes deal with ...
Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Carolyn Ives Gilman - Isles of the Forsaken

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Carolyn Ives Gilman's book Isles of the Forsaken is a clever and original work of fantasy. At its core are the intertwined stories of...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Baku: Congress of the Peoples of the East

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 My recent reading of The Oil Road reminded me of the fascinating radical history of the city of Baku. Formally part of Russia and now in...
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Monday, December 17, 2012

Iain M. Banks - The Hydrogen Sonata

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One of the great things about Iain M. Banks' Culture novels is the way that they explore what might happen in a society that has essen...
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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Francis Pryor - The Birth of Modern Britain

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Probably to the annoyance of some of my fellow socialists I've championed the work of Francis Pryor rather alot. His works of popular ...