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
Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States 1895-1917 Terrance Kissack 2008 220p 6 x 9 By investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of queer politics in the United States. The anarchists Kissack examines—such as Emma Goldman, … Continue reading Free Comrades
A Social History of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830 G. Rudé & E.J. Hobsbawm 1969 400p 5 x 8 Sir, Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, … Continue reading Captain Swing
An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown 1970 481p 6 x 9 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian and their tenancious survival during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, … Continue reading Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
The Story of Class Violence in America Louis Adamic 1935 380p 5 x 8 The history of labor in the United States is a story of almost continuous violence. In Dynamite, Louis Adamic recounts one century of that history in vivid, carefully researched detail. Covering both well- and lesser-known … Continue reading Dynamite
Fredy Perlman 1984 64p 5 x 8 A critique of nationalism, of both left and right. This is an essential essay for a critical understanding of nationalism. The idea that an understanding of genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle a system … Continue reading The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism
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