Five Centuries of the Pillage of the Continent Eduardo Galeano     1971     317p     6 x 9 Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and … Continue reading Open Veins of Latin America →

Memory of Fire Vol. I Eduardo Galeano     1982     336p     5 x 8 Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the Galeano’s words, an attempt to ‘rescue the kidnapped memory … Continue reading Genesis →

Memory of Fire Vol. II Eduardo Galeano     1984     312p     5 x 8 Galeano continues his imaginative history of the Americas. In this second volume of his Memory of Fire trilogy, he gives us crucial moments of the 18th and 19th centuries: the clash between European and native cultures, the … Continue reading Faces and Masks →

The Biography of Ezra Haywood Martin Blatt     1990     240p     5 x 8 Sexual behavior was a hot and often dangerous topic for conversation in Victorian America. Anyone advocating women’s rights, birth control, or ‘free love’ could find himself counting the hours in a prison cell. Enter three amazing characters … Continue reading Anarchism and Free Love →

A Human History Marcus Rediker     2007     448p     5.5 x 8 For more than three centuries slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa across the Atlantic to the New World. Much is known of the slave trade and the American plantation complex, but little of the … Continue reading The Slave Ship →

An Atlantic History of Slavery and Freedom Marcus Rediker     2012     320p     6 x 9 On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, after four days at sea, the captive Africans rose up, killed … Continue reading The Amistad Rebellion →

Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker     2001     433p     6.5 x 9 Spanning an impressive 200 years, this books takes us from the early 1600s (and the years leading up to the English Civil War) through the golden age of … Continue reading The Many-Headed Hydra →

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