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This study of the part of the Highland Clearances that took place on the Sutherland Estate in the first quarter of the 19th century makes fo...

This compelling, if confusing novel spans the darkest years of the twentieth century, from the beginning of the First World War, to the afte...

This is an important work of history which reminds us of the extensive class battles that took place between some of the poorest inhabitants...

Given the popularity of this, the first of Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy, a long review seems somewhat pointless. I arrive at it aft...

This is a fascinating anthropological study of a relatively small society in East New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. While the stu...

Part one of Ian Kershaw's two volume history of Europe in the twentieth century covers some of the most violent and barbaric periods in ...

Karl Marx wrote at length about the nature of capitalism. But he also described capitalism's birth "dripping in blood". In Cap...

Hilary Mantel's talent for talking historical figures and making them real is put to superb use in this novel of the French Revolution. ...

The media is a fickle beast, so coverage of potential epidemics of diseases veers between the apocalyptic to nonexistence. As an outbreak oc...

Jason W. Moore's book Capitalism in the Web of Life has become a required read for those trying to understand why it is that capitalis...

The plural "causes" in the title of Norah Carlin's book is important because as she makes clear she is not looking for a singl...

The Fireman tells the reader little about what is taking place in the wide world. There is little about the fall of governments or the failu...

Who is the bandit? Where do they come from and how do they survive? These are the questions that Eric Hobsbawm's classic work  Bandits ...

Millions of words and hundreds of books have been written on Malcolm X and the struggle for Civil Rights in the United States. In an era whe...