The Bandit Queen of India

An Indian Woman’s Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend Phoolan Devi     1997     497p     6 x 9 Born in India to the lowest caste and sent to live with an arranged husband at the age of 12, Devi’s story is one of defiance and reclamation. After running away from her … Continue reading The Bandit Queen of India

Agents of Repression

The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill & Jim Vander Wall     1988     550p    6 x 9 An incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement and the … Continue reading Agents of Repression

The Night Visitor

And Other Stories B. Traven     1929     252p     5 x 8 Here are ten of B. Traven’s remarkable short stories. Three of them are long stories: The setting of  ‘The Night Visitor’ is a hacienda deep in the Mexican bush where a lonely American recreates in his imagination an eerie … Continue reading The Night Visitor

Prison Writings

My Life is My Sundance Leonard Peltier     2000     272p     5 x 9 In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the … Continue reading Prison Writings

March to the Monteria

B. Traven     1933     240p     5 x 8 In the third of his six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations of southern Mexico in the years before the revolution, Traven traces the beginnings of consciousness which led to rebellion by the Indians who worked in debt slavery. Other … Continue reading March to the Monteria

The General From the Jungle

B. Traven     1939     285p     5 x 8 With General from the Jungle, Traven complete’s the sixth and last of the legendary Jungle Novels, telling the birth of the Mexican Revolution. In General, a masterpiece on guerrilla warfare, Traven tells the story of Juan Mendez, perhaps the youngest and greatest … Continue reading The General From the Jungle

Changes in the Land

Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England William Cronon 1983 288p 5 x 8 William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists’ sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Changes in the Land provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land … Continue reading Changes in the Land

The Carreta

B. Traven     1931     271p     5.5 x 8 In the second of his six Jungle Novels, Traven brings his remarkable narrative talents to bear on the coming of age of a young Indian oxcart driver and the oppressive world in which he must make his way. $7-15 Other works involving … Continue reading The Carreta

Orgasms of History

3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection Yves Férmion     2002     280p     6 x 9 Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, and new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack … Continue reading Orgasms of History