Duncan's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:53:28 -0700 60 Duncan's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg The God of Small Things 9777
Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family—their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).

When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.

The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes—Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.]]> 321 Arundhati Roy 0679457313 Duncan 0 to-read 3.97 1997 The God of Small Things
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]]> <![CDATA[Freud's Beasty Boys: Sex, Violence and Masculinity]]> 218425373
Timofeeva demonstrates the relevance of psychoanalysis for anyone who wants to understand how patriarchy works, but she also points to its limitations. For Freud, sexuality creates the background of our psychic lives, and unconscious sexual fantasies are the origins of psychic disorders such as hysteria, obsessions and phobias. But what are the origins of sexual fantasies?

Timofeeva argues that behind psychic dramas of sexuality there is something a mechanism of violence which she calls ‘the machine of masculinity� and which she analyses both through Freud’s cases and through the lens of religion, anthropology and her own life experiences. Wolves, rats and horses are magical agents that connect us to the world of the dead � that is, to the history of our culture in which monotheism replaced totemic practices but the basic psychosocial matrix of turning love into violence continues to reproduce itself.]]> 128 Oxana Timofeeva 1509568417 Duncan 0 to-read 3.00 Freud's Beasty Boys: Sex, Violence and Masculinity
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]]> <![CDATA[Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False]]> 13690432 Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate consciousness and other mind-related aspects of reality, then we must abandon a purely materialist understanding of nature in general, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. No such explanation is available, and the physical sciences, including molecular biology, cannot be expected to provide one. The book explores these problems through a general treatment of the obstacles to reductionism, with more specific application to the phenomena of consciousness, cognition, and value. The conclusion is that physics cannot be the theory of everything.]]> 144 Thomas Nagel 0199919755 Duncan 0 to-read 3.57 2012 Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
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]]> <![CDATA[Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Theory in Forms)]]> 59019778 288 Muriam Haleh Davis 147801587X Duncan 0 4.25 Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria (Theory in Forms)
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]]> <![CDATA[Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future]]> 207294076 From Yale professor and bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the authoritarian right’s efforts to annihilate public education, silence teachers, and use taxpayer money to undo a century of work to advance social justice action on race, gender, sexuality, and class.Combining historical research with an in-depth analysis of our modern political landscape, Erasing History issues a dire warning for America and the the worst fascist movements of humanity’s past began in schools; the same place so many of today’s right-wing political parties have trained their most vicious attacks. Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recip Erdogan, and Argentina’s Javier Milei have all reached the same if you want to roll back the clock on civil rights, equity, and inclusion, a great place to start is in our schools. Yale professor Jason Stanley exposes the true danger of the right’s tactics and traces their inspirations and funding back to some of the most dangerous ideas of human history. He shows that hearts and minds are won in our elementary schools, high schools, and universities—and that governments are currently ill-prepared to do the work of uprooting fascist policies being foisted upon our children through school boards, in courtrooms, and in the boardrooms of the companies trusted to train our teachers and create the materials they’ll share with their students. Deeply informed and urgently needed, this book is a vibrant call to action for lovers of democracy worldwide.]]> 256 Jason F. Stanley 1668056917 Duncan 0 to-read 4.31 2024 Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity]]> 28134 The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s—a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy—and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded as well.

That he emerged to write this funny and true book and then moved on to find the meaningful life that for a while had seemed beyond reach is what ultimately happens in The Eden Express. But the real story here is that throughout his harrowing experience his sense of humor let him see the humanity of what he was going through, and his gift of language let him describe it in such a moving way that others could begin to imagine both its utter ordinariness as well as the madness we all share.]]> 304 Mark Vonnegut 1583225439 Duncan 0 to-read 3.87 1975 The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
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]]> &Dz;ÉٰԲ 15688
'éٰԲ est le premier roman d'Albert Camus, Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957.]]> 184 Albert Camus 2070360024 Duncan 0 3.93 1942 L'Étranger
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]]> A Month in the Country 60707 160 J.L. Carr 0940322471 Duncan 0 to-read 4.10 1980 A Month in the Country
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]]> <![CDATA[Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism]]> 399136
Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialization of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa.

This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the develpment of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which, all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old.]]> 224 Benedict Anderson 0860915468 Duncan 0 to-read 4.13 1983 Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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]]> <![CDATA[The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution]]> 28264568 explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust.

The Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute, inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the assault on the handicapped and the Final Solution, Friedlander shows how the legal restrictions and exclusionary policies of the 1930s, including mass sterilization, led to mass murder during the war. He also makes clear that the killing centers where the handicapped were gassed and cremated served as the models for the extermination camps.

Based on extensive archival research, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, and the nature of popular opposition.

]]> 447 Henry Friedlander Duncan 0 to-read 4.11 1995 The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
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]]> <![CDATA[An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women]]> 26184094
An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within the context of colonialism, the oppression of women and the denial of Indigenous sovereignty, Karen Stote argues that this coercive sterilization must be considered in relation to the larger goals of Indian policy � to gain access to Indigenous lands and resources while reducing the numbers of those to whom the federal government has obligations. Stote also contends that, in accordance with the original meaning of the term, this sterilization should be understood as an act of genocide, and she explores the ways Canada has managed to avoid this charge.

This lucid, engaging book explicitly challenges Canadians to take up their responsibilities as treaty partners, to reconsider their history and to hold their government to account for its treatment of Indigenous peoples.]]> 227 Karen Stote Duncan 0 to-read 4.39 2015 An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women
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]]> <![CDATA[Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism (Feminst Technosciences)]]> 199489425 An accessible foray into botany’s origins and how we can transform its future

Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to explore the labyrinthine history of how colonialism transformed rich and complex plant worlds into biological knowledge. Botany of Empire demonstrates how botany’s foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions. We see how colonizers obliterated plant time’s deep history to create a reductionist system that imposed a Latin-based naming system, drew on the imagined sex lives of European elites to explain plant sexuality, and discussed foreign plants like foreign humans. Subramanian then pivots to imagining a more inclusive and capacious field of botany untethered and decentered from its origins in histories of racism, slavery, and colonialism. This vision harnesses the power of feminist and scientific thought to chart a course for more socially just practices of experimental biology.

A reckoning and a manifesto, Botany of Empire provides experts and general readers alike with a roadmap for transforming the colonial foundations of plant science.]]> 328 Banu Subramaniam 0295752467 Duncan 0 to-read 4.19 Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism (Feminst Technosciences)
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]]> <![CDATA[Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France (New Studies in European History)]]> 52015897 328 Elizabeth Heath 1107688582 Duncan 0 to-read 0.0 2014 Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France (New Studies in European History)
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]]> <![CDATA[By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria]]> 11712058
In Sessions's view, French expansion in North Africa was rooted in contests over sovereignty and male citizenship in the wake of the Atlantic revolutions of the eighteenth century. The French monarchy embraced warfare as a means to legitimize new forms of rule, incorporating the Algerian army into royal iconography and public festivals. Colorful broadsides, songs, and plays depicted the men of the Armee d'Afrique as citizen soldiers. Social reformers and colonial theorists formulated plans to settle Algeria with European emigrants. The propaganda used to recruit settlers featured imagery celebrating Algeria's agricultural potential, but the male emigrants who responded were primarily poor, urban laborers who saw the colony as a place to exercise what they saw as their right to work. Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern France.]]> 384 Jennifer E. Sessions 0801449758 Duncan 0 to-read 3.52 2011 By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria
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]]> <![CDATA[Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border]]> 41817501

Travel writer Porter Fox spent three years exploring 4,000 miles of the border between Maine and Washington, traveling by canoe, freighter, car, and foot. In Northland, he blends a deeply reported and beautifully written story of the region’s history with a riveting account of his travels. Setting out from the easternmost point in the mainland United States, Fox follows explorer Samuel de Champlain’s adventures across the Northeast; recounts the rise and fall of the timber, iron, and rail industries; crosses the Great Lakes on a freighter; tracks America’s fur traders through the Boundary Waters; and traces the forty-ninth parallel from Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean.


Fox, who grew up the son of a boat-builder in Maine’s northland, packs his narrative with colorful characters (Captain Meriwether Lewis, railroad tycoon James J. Hill, Chief Red Cloud of the Lakota Sioux) and extraordinary landscapes (Glacier National Park, the Northwest Angle, Washington’s North Cascades). He weaves in his encounters with residents, border guards, Indian activists, and militia leaders to give a dynamic portrait of the northland today, wracked by climate change, water wars, oil booms, and border security.]]> 272 Porter Fox 0393357090 Duncan 0 to-read 3.57 2018 Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border
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]]> <![CDATA[Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization]]> 206120253 Liberal civilisation is in crisis—now is a time of monstersThe rise of the new far-right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders like Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, and Rodrigo Duterte, the true peril lies elsewhere. They are but the political manifestations of a potent force - disaster nationalism. This mass cultural phenomenon, propelled through the vast networks of social media and fueled by far-right influencers, emerges from a reservoir of societal despair, fear, and isolation.At its core, disaster nationalism fixates on images of catastrophe - the 'Great Replacement,' Satanic 'cabals' - as explanations for its discontent. It yearns for an 'end of days,' a reckoning, a 'storm' as the QAnon faithful call it, to bring an end to its suffering. This yearning is only heightened by the relentless onslaught of real-world disasters, from economic recessions to global pandemics and ecological collapse.Within this seething cauldron, we witness not only the surge of far-right political movements but also the sparks of individual and collective violence against perceived enemies, from 'lone wolf' killers to terrifying pogroms. Should a new fascism emerge, it will coalesce from these very elements. This is disaster nationalism.In Disaster Nationalism, Richard Seymour delves deep into this alarming phenomenon, dissecting its roots, its influencers, and the threats it poses. With meticulous analysis and compelling storytelling, this book offers a stark warning and a call to action. The battle against disaster nationalism is not just political; it is a struggle for our collective soul and the future of civilization itself.]]> 288 Richard Seymour 180429425X Duncan 0 to-read 4.11 Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
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]]> <![CDATA[East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars (Stanford British Histories)]]> 208518193 East of Empire traces how anticolonial nationalism gained momentum across the East and documents the friendships, rivalries, cultural exchanges, and shifting political alliances that came to animate the interwar project of a cosmopolitan vision of the world whose center of gravity lay beyond Europe, in the great city of Cairo.



Erin O'Halloran offers a compelling new account of the era immediately preceding decolonization and the epochal partitions of India and Palestine. Alongside well-known figures like Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Saad Zaghlul, she introduces less familiar but no less intriguing feminists, diplomats, and poets; surrealists, socialists and spies. Each dreamed, wrote, organized and fought for the liberation of the East—a space universally evoked, though seemingly impossible to pin down. Drawing on a broad cross-section of Indian, Arab, British, and European sources, East of Empire transcends archival partitions to tell a powerful and nearly forgotten set of stories about the rise of anticolonial nationalism and the end of empire across the Middle East and South Asia.]]> 333 Erin M B O'Halloran 1503641449 Duncan 0 to-read 0.0 East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars (Stanford British Histories)
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]]> <![CDATA[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism]]> 75560036
Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. The perfect Christmas gift for the political visionaries in your life.

In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords � replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power.

But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison.

‘An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift . . . this isn't just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power� Observer

‘An urgent demand to seize the means of computation� CORY DOCTOROW

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR]]> 224 Yanis Varoufakis Duncan 0 to-read 4.04 2023 Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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]]> How to Do Things with Words 333832 How to Do Things with Words.

For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary. Students will find the new text clearer, and, at the same time, more faithful to the actual lectures. An appendix contains literal transcriptions of a number of marginal notes made by Austin but not included in the text. Comparison of the text with these annotations provides new dimensions to the study of Austin's work.]]> 168 J.L. Austin 0674411528 Duncan 0 to-read 3.95 1955 How to Do Things with Words
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]]> <![CDATA[Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives]]> 13455 Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing's stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States.

Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can reframe them.

Lakoff’s years of research and work with leading activists and policy makers have been distilled into this essential guide, which shows progressives how to think in terms of values instead of programs, and why people support policies which align with their values and identities, but which often run counter to their best interests.

Don't Think of an Elephant! is the definitive handbook for understanding and communicating effectively about key issues in the 2004 election, and beyond. Read it, take action—and help take America back.]]> 144 George Lakoff 1931498717 Duncan 0 currently-reading 3.94 2004 Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
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]]> Late Nights on Air 1677996 A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.

Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined.

Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on a canoe trip four of them make into the Arctic wilderness (following in the steps of the legendary Englishman John Hornby, who, along with his small party, starved to death in the barrens in 1927), they find the balance of love shifting, much as the balance of power in the North is being changed by the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline, which threatens to displace Native people from their land.

Elizabeth Hay has been compared to Annie Proulx, Alice Hoffman, and Isabel Allende, yet she is uniquely herself. With unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this new novel, Hay brings to bear her skewering intelligence into the frailties of the human heart and her ability to tell a spellbinding story. Written in gorgeous prose, laced with dark humour, Late Nights on Air is Hay’s most seductive and accomplished novel yet.

]]> 364 Elizabeth Hay 0771038119 Duncan 0 to-read 3.58 2007 Late Nights on Air
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]]> <![CDATA[The Colony of Unrequited Dreams]]> 95230 The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland. In this widely acclaimed novel, Johnston has created two of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: Joey Smallwood, who claws his way up from poverty to become New Foundland's first premier; and Sheilagh Fielding, who renounces her father's wealth to become a popular columnist and writer, a gifted satirist who casts a haunting shadow on Smallwood's life and career.

The two meet as children at school and grow to realize that their lives are irreversibly intertwined, bound together by a secret they don't know they share. Smallwood, always on the make, torn between love of country and fear of failure, is as reluctant to trust the private truths of his heart as his rival and savior, Fielding—brilliant, hard-drinking, and unconventionally sexy. Their story ranges from small-town Newfoundland to New York City, from the harrowing ice floes of the seal hunt to the lavish drawing rooms of colonial governors, and combines erudition, comedy, and unflagging narrative brio in a manner reminiscent of John Irving and Charles Dickens. A tragicomic elegy for the "colony of unrequited dreams" that is Newfoundland, Wayne Johnston's masterful tribute to a people and a place establishes him as a novelist who is as profound as he is funny, with an impeccable sense of the intersection where private lives and history collide.]]> 590 Wayne Johnston 0385495439 Duncan 0 to-read 3.93 1998 The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
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]]> <![CDATA[The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire]]> 51114662 A thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada's origins.

The story of the Hudson's Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada's creation. And yet it hasn't been told in a book for over thirty years, and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown's exciting new telling.

The Company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the Indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people--from the lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the tundra, the great plains, the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many Indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America.

When the Company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson--one of the greatest villains in Canadian history--and the Company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson's Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world.

Stephen R. Bown has a scholar's profound knowledge and understanding of the Company's history, but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling, and rich in well-drawn characters, as a page-turning novel.]]> 496 Stephen R. Bown 0385694075 Duncan 0 to-read 4.11 2020 The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Penguin History of Canada]]> 404324 500 Robert Bothwell 0140293493 Duncan 0 to-read 3.54 2006 The New Penguin History of Canada
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]]> <![CDATA[End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration]]> 62926960
From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames

Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for more than a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States.

Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a breakdown in the political order circa 2020. The years since have proved his prediction more and more accurate, and End Times reveals why.

The lessons of world history are clear, Turchin When the equilibrium between ruling elites and the majority tips too far in favor of elites, political instability is all but inevitable. As income inequality surges and prosperity flows disproportionately into the hands of the elites, the common people suffer, and society-wide efforts to become an elite grow ever more frenzied. He calls this process the wealth pump; it’s a world of the damned and the saved. And since the number of such positions remains relatively fixed, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. Turchin’s models show that when this state has been reached, societies become locked in a death spiral it's very hard to exit.

In America, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. As cliodynamics shows us, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture. That is only one possible end time, and the choice is up to us, but the hour grows late.]]> 368 Peter Turchin 0593490509 Duncan 0 to-read 4.02 End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
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]]> <![CDATA[The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France]]> 16286292 320 Camille Robcis 0801478774 Duncan 0 to-read 4.00 2013 The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France
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]]> Darkness at Noon 45486426 The newly discovered lost text of Arthur Koestler’s modern masterpiece, Darkness at Noon—the haunting portrait of a revolutionary, imprisoned and tortured under totalitarian rule—is now restored and in a completely new translation.

Editor Michael Scammell and translator Philip Boehm bring us a brilliant novel, a remarkable discovery, and a new translation of an international classic.

In print continually since 1940, Darkness at Noon has been translated into over 30 languages and is both a stirring novel and a classic anti-fascist text. What makes its popularity and tenacity even more remarkable is that all existing versions of Darkness at Noon are based on a hastily made English translation of the original German by a novice translator at the outbreak of World War II.

In 2015, Matthias Weßel stumbled across an entry in the archives of the Zurich Central Library that is a scholar's dream: �Koestler, Arthur. Roman. Typoskript, März 1940, 326 pages.� What he had found was Arthur Koestler’s original, complete German manuscript for what would become Darkness at Noon, thought to have been irrevocably lost in the turmoil of the war. With this stunning literary discovery, and a new English translation direct from the primary German manuscript, we can now for the first time read Darkness at Noon as Koestler wrote it.

Set in the 1930s at the height of the purge and show trials of a Stalinist Moscow, Darkness at Noon is a haunting portrait of an aging revolutionary, Nicholas Rubashov, who is imprisoned, tortured, and forced through a series of hearings by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and betrayals of a merciless totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.

Koestler’s portrayal of Stalin-era totalitarianism and fascism is as chilling and resonant today as it was in the 1940s and during the Cold War. Rubashov’s plight explores the meaning and value of moral choices, the attractions and dangers of idealism, and the corrosiveness of political corruption. Like The Trial, 1984, and Animal Farm, this is a book you should read as a citizen of the world, wherever you are and wherever you come from.]]> 272 Arthur Koestler 1982135220 Duncan 0 4.41 1940 Darkness at Noon
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]]> <![CDATA[The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis]]> 57331880
A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book tracesour contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of theNew World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning.

Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.
ձ> 336 Amitav Ghosh 0226815455 Duncan 0 to-read 4.23 2021 The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
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]]> <![CDATA[Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route]]> 85683 Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy.

There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search. She traveled to Ghana in search of strangers. The most universal definition of the slave is a stranger--torn from kin and country. To lose your mother is to suffer the loss of kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as a stranger. As both the offspring of slaves and an American in Africa, Hartman, too, was a stranger. Her reflections on history and memory unfold as an intimate encounter with places--a holding cell, a slave market, a walled town built to repel slave raiders--and with people: an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa; an adolescent boy who was kidnapped while playing; a fourteen-year-old girl who was murdered aboard a slave ship.

Eloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.]]> 288 Saidiya Hartman 0374270821 Duncan 0 to-read 4.30 2007 Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
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]]> <![CDATA[The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands]]> 4337
In his final days, Aidan Hartley’s father said to him, “We should have never come here.� Those words spoke of a colonial legacy that stretched back through four generations of one British family. From a great-great-grandfather who defended British settlements in nineteenth-century New Zealand, to his father, a colonial officer sent to Africa in the 1920s and who later returned to raise a family there—these were intrepid men who traveled to exotic lands to conquer, build, and bear witness. And there was Aidan, who became a journalist covering Africa in the 1990s, a decade marked by terror and genocide.

After encountering the violence in Somalia, Uganda, and Rwanda, Aidan retreated to his family’s house in Kenya where he discovered the Zanzibar chest his father left him. Intricately hand-carved, the chest contained the diaries of his father’s best friend, Peter Davey, an Englishman who had died under obscure circumstances five decades before. With the papers as his guide, Hartley embarked on a journey not only to unlock the secrets of Davey’s life, but his own.

“The finest account of a war correspondent’s psychic wracking since Michael Herr’s Dispatches.� —Rian Malan, author of My Traitor’s Heart]]> 496 Aidan Hartley 1594480117 Duncan 0 to-read 4.02 2003 The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands
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]]> <![CDATA[Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune]]> 22716641 Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century

Kristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today’s concerns—internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice—frame and inform her carefully researched restaging of the words and actions of individual Communards. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the encounters that transpired between the insurrection’s survivors and supporters like Marx, Kropotkin, and William Morris.

The Paris Commune was a laboratory of political invention, important simply and above all for, as Marx reminds us, its own “working existence.� Communal Luxury allows readers to revisit the intricate workings of an extraordinary experiment.]]> 156 Kristin Ross 1781688397 Duncan 0 to-read 4.03 2015 Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
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]]> <![CDATA[Empire of Cotton: A Global History]]> 20758057
Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible, yet understanding its history is key to understanding the origins of modern capitalism. Sven Beckert’s rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, and combined them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas and the enslavement of African workers to crucially reshape the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia, and how industrial capitalism gave birth to an empire, and how this force transformed the world.

The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. The result is a book as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist.

]]> 640 Sven Beckert 0375414142 Duncan 0 to-read 3.88 2014 Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo]]> 6051790 The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics� based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist.Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the íܱ (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.]]> 432 Lauren Hutchinson Derby 0822344823 Duncan 0 to-read 3.43 2009 The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
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]]> Butcher's Crossing 457228 Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.

It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek “an original relation to nature,� drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher’s Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher’s Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher’s Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.]]> 274 John Williams 1590171985 Duncan 0 to-read 4.18 1960 Butcher's Crossing
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]]> <![CDATA[La torture et l'armée pendant la guerre d'Algérie, 1954-1962]]> 30326595 816 Raphaëlle Branche 2072651840 Duncan 0 to-read 4.00 2001 La torture et l'armée pendant la guerre d'Algérie, 1954-1962
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]]> <![CDATA[The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times]]> 30285131 The Islamic Enlightenment becomes an astonishing and revelatory history that offers a game-changing assessment of the Middle East since the Napoleonic Wars.

Beginning his account in 1798, de Bellaigue demonstrates how Middle Eastern heartlands have long welcomed modern ideals and practices, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from seclusion, and the development of democracy. With trenchant political and historical insight, de Bellaigue further shows how the violence of an infinitesimally small minority is in fact the tragic blowback from these modernizing processes.

Structuring his groundbreaking history around Istanbul, Cairo, and Tehran, the three main loci of Islamic culture, de Bellaigue directly challenges ossified perceptions of a supposedly benighted Muslim world through the forgotten, and inspiring, stories of philosophers, anti-clerics, journalists, and feminists who opened up their societies to political and intellectual emancipation. His sweeping and vivid account includes remarkable men and women from across the Muslim world, including Ibrahim Sinasi, who brought newspapers to Istanbul; Mirza Saleh Shirzi, whose Persian memoirs describe how the Turkish harems were finally shuttered; and Qurrat al-Ayn, an Iranian noble woman, who defied her husband to become a charismatic prophet.

What makes The Islamic Enlightenment particularly germane is that non-Muslim pundits in the post-9/11 erahave repeatedly called for Islam to subject itself to the transformations that the West has already achieved since the Enlightenment—the absurd implication being that if Muslims do not stop reading or following the tenets of the Qur’an and other holy books, they will never emerge from a benighted state of backwardness. The Islamic Enlightenment, with its revolutionary argument, completely refutes this view and, in the process, reveals the folly of Westerners demanding modernity from those whose lives are already drenched in it.]]> 432 Christopher de Bellaigue 0871403730 Duncan 0 to-read 3.56 2017 The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
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]]> Morocco that Was 2149390 246 Walter Burton Harris 0907871135 Duncan 0 to-read 3.80 1970 Morocco that Was
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]]> The Plot Against America 703
For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's election is the first in a series of ruptures that threatens to destroy his small, safe corner of America - and with it, his mother, his father, and his older brother.]]> 391 Philip Roth 1400079497 Duncan 0 to-read 3.79 2004 The Plot Against America
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]]> <![CDATA[La Déconniatrie: Art, exil et psychiatrie autour de François Tosquelles]]> 96225163 Cette histoire et les pratiques expérimentales de Tosquelles sont au cœur de l'exposition que ce catalogue accompagne, questionnant les rapports entre art, exil et psychiatrie, et la notion de création dans le contexte de l'exclusion, de l'enfermement ou de l'hospitalisation, à la croisée de l'histoire de la psychiatrie, de la politique, de l'art moderne, du surréalisme et de l'art brut ou encore du cinéma d'avant-garde, célébrant ce « droit au vagabondage » du corps et de l'esprit.]]> 248 Carles Guerra 291439716X Duncan 0 to-read 0.0 La Déconniatrie: Art, exil et psychiatrie autour de François Tosquelles
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]]> <![CDATA[The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano]]> 240009 256 Olaudah Equiano 0312442033 Duncan 0 3.79 1789 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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]]> My War Gone By, I Miss It So 4360 336 Anthony Loyd 0140298541 Duncan 0 4.18 1999 My War Gone By, I Miss It So
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]]> Trust in Numbers 936163

Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply.]]> 328 Theodore M. Porter 0691029083 Duncan 0 to-read 3.87 1995 Trust in Numbers
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]]> <![CDATA[Value(s): Building a Better World for All]]> 54503528


As an economist and former banker, Mark Carney has spent his life in various financial roles, in both the public and private sector. VALUE(S) is a meditation on his experiences that examines the short-comings and challenges of the market in the past decade which he argues has led to rampant, public distrust and the need for radical change.




Focusing on four major crises-the Global Financial Crisis, the Global Health Crisis, Climate Change and the 4th Industrial Revolution-- Carney proposes responses to each. His solutions are tangible action plans for leaders, companies and countries to transform the value of the market back into the value of humanity.]]> 608 Mark Carney 1541768701 Duncan 0 to-read 3.68 2021 Value(s): Building a Better World for All
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink (Volume 11) (Intoxicating Histories)]]> 208087286 264 Nina S. Studer 0228022207 Duncan 0 to-read 0.0 The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink (Volume 11) (Intoxicating Histories)
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]]> <![CDATA[Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Near Futures)]]> 219207953 How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War

Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.

To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards—hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money—and forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would become known as the alt-right.

Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family feud.]]> 272 Quinn Slobodian 1890951919 Duncan 0 to-read 4.29 Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Near Futures)
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]]> <![CDATA[ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (Culture and Psychiatry)]]> 51456630 The development of psychiatry in the Middle East, viewed through the history of one of the first modern mental hospitals in the region. ʿAṣfūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary in 1896, one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the Middle East. It closed its doors in 1982, a victim of Lebanon's brutal fifteen-year civil war. In this book, Joelle Abi-Rached uses the rise and fall of ʿAṣfūriyyeh as a lens through which to examine the development of modern psychiatric theory and practice in the region as well as the sociopolitical history of modern Lebanon.

Abi-Rached shows how ʿAṣfūriyyeh's role shifted from a missionary enterprise to a national institution with wide regional influence. She offers a gripping chronicle of patients' and staff members' experiences during the Lebanese Civil War and analyzes the hospital's distinctive nonsectarian philosophy. When ʿAṣfūriyyeh closed down, health in general and mental health in particular became more visibly "sectarianized"--monopolized by various religious and political actors. Once hailed for its progressive approach to mental illness and its cosmopolitanism, ʿAṣfūriyyeh became a stigmatizing term, a byword for madness and deviance, ultimately epitomizing a failed project of modernity. Reflecting on the afterlife of this and other medical institutions, especially those affected by war, Abi-Rached calls for a new "ethics of memory," more attuned to our global yet increasingly fragmented, unstable, and violent present.
]]> 312 Joelle M. Abi-Rached 0262044749 Duncan 0 to-read 4.13 ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (Culture and Psychiatry)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France]]> 801587 304 Todd Shepard 0801443601 Duncan 0 to-read 3.68 2006 The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
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]]> <![CDATA[Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France]]> 14923050 320 Naomi Davidson 0801478316 Duncan 0 to-read 3.90 2012 Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France
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]]> Orientalism 355190
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.]]> 424 Edward W. Said Duncan 0 currently-reading 4.13 1978 Orientalism
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]]> <![CDATA[Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa]]> 1076510 Colonial Madness traces the genealogy and development of this idea from the beginnings of colonial expansion to the present, revealing the ways in which psychiatry has been at once a weapon in the arsenal of colonial racism, an innovative branch of medical science, and a mechanism for negotiating the meaning of difference for republican citizenship.

Drawing from extensive archival research and fieldwork in France and North Africa, Richard Keller offers much more than a history of colonial psychology. Colonial Madness explores the notion of what French thinkers saw as an inherent mental, intellectual, and behavioral rift marked by the Mediterranean, as well as the idea of the colonies as an experimental space freed from the limitations of metropolitan society and reason. These ideas have modern relevance, Keller argues, reflected in French thought about race and debates over immigration and France’s postcolonial legacy.]]> 320 Richard C. Keller 0226429733 Duncan 0 4.11 2007 Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa
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]]> <![CDATA[La Folie des autres : Traité d'ethnopsychiatrie clinique]]> 2833221 241 Tobie Nathan 2040164103 Duncan 0 to-read 4.17 1993 La Folie des autres : Traité d'ethnopsychiatrie clinique
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]]> <![CDATA[Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India]]> 552393
Focusing on three major epidemic diseases―smallpox, cholera, and plague―Arnold analyzes the impact of medical interventionism. He demonstrates that Western medicine as practiced in India was not simply transferred from West to East, but was also fashioned in response to local needs and Indian conditions.

By emphasizing this colonial dimension of medicine, Arnold highlights the centrality of the body to political authority in British India and shows how medicine both influenced and articulated the intrinsic contradictions of colonial rule.]]> 368 David Arnold 0520082958 Duncan 0 to-read 3.93 1993 Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India
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]]> Nedjma 989504 Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is the symbol of Algeria. Kateb has crafted a novel that is the saga of the founding ancestors of Algeria through the conquest of Numidia by the Romans, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and French colonial conquest. Nedjma is symbolic of the rich and sometimes bloody past of Algeria, of its passions, of its tenderness; it is the epic story of a human quest for freedom and happiness.]]> 388 Kateb Yacine 0813913136 Duncan 0 to-read 3.62 1956 Nedjma
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]]> <![CDATA[The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day]]> 25401920 544 Jonathan Fenby 1471129292 Duncan 0 to-read 3.75 2015 The History of Modern France: From the Revolution to the Present Day
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)]]> 6477876
In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.� This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.]]> 464 James C. Scott 0300152280 Duncan 0 to-read 4.14 2009 The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World]]> 4458016 352 Marcy Norton 0801444934 Duncan 0 to-read 3.65 2008 Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
author: Marcy Norton
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]]> <![CDATA[On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century]]> 33917107
On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man with open contempt for democratic norms and institutions to the height of power.

Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth, he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. As he writes, “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.�

Twenty Lessons is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.]]> 127 Timothy Snyder 0804190119 Duncan 0 4.24 2017 On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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]]> <![CDATA[Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World]]> 2051419 Vermeer's Hat shows just how rich this inventory was, and how the urge to acquire such things was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood.]]> 288 Timothy Brook 1596914440 Duncan 0 3.84 2007 Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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]]> The Immoralist 70101 The Immoralist , André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his father. On the couple's honeymoon to Tunisia, Michel becomes very ill, and during his recovery he meets a young Arab boy whose radiant health and beauty captivate him. An awakening for him both sexually and morally, Michel discovers a new freedom in seeking to live according to his own desires. But, as he also discovers, freedom can be a burden. A frank defense of homosexuality and a challenge to prevailing ethical concepts, The Immoralist is a literary landmark, marked by Gide's masterful, pure, simple style.]]> 123 André Gide 0142180025 Duncan 0 to-read 3.61 1902 The Immoralist
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]]> <![CDATA[Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)]]> 211003936 How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state’s desire to control its citizens

Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? In Raised to Obey, Agustina Paglayan offers an unsettling answer. The introduction of broadly accessible primary education was not mainly a response to industrialization, or fueled by democratic ideals, or even aimed at eradicating illiteracy or improving skills. It was motivated instead by elites� fear of the masses—and the desire to turn the “savage,� “unruly,� and “morally flawed� children of the lower classes into well-behaved future citizens who would obey the state and its laws.

Drawing on unparalleled evidence from two centuries of education provision in Europe and the Americas, and deploying rich data that capture the expansion of primary education and its characteristics, this sweeping book offers a political history of primary schools that is both broad and deep. Paglayan shows that governments invested in primary schools when internal threats heightened political elites� anxiety around mass violence and the breakdown of social order.

Two hundred years later, the original objective of disciplining children remains at the core of how most public schools around the world operate. The future of education systems—and their ability to reduce poverty and inequality—hinges on our ability to understand and come to terms with this troubling history.]]> 384 Agustina Paglayan 0691261261 Duncan 0 to-read 3.67 Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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]]> Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021 212900939 The New York Times and USA Today bestselling memoir by one of the most important leaders of our time

For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude. But Angela Merkel was not born a Chancellor. In her memoirs, co-written with her long-standing political advisor Beate Baumann, she looks back on her life in two German states � 35 years in the GDR (German Democratic Republic), 35 years in reunified Germany. More personally than ever before, she talks about her childhood, youth, and her studies in the GDR, and the dramatic year of 1989, when the Wall fell and her political life began. She shares insights into her meetings and conversations with the world's most powerful leaders and elucidates, with clear and precise examples, significant national, European, and international turning points and how decisions were made that shape our times. Her book offers a unique insight into the inner workings of power � and is a decisive plea for freedom.


“What does freedom mean to me? This question has occupied me my entire life. Naturally, politically, because freedom needs democratic conditions, without democracy there is no freedom, no rule of law, no protection of human rights. But this question also occupies me on another level. Freedom, for me, is finding out where my own limits are, and pushing my own limits. Freedom is for me not to stop learning, not to have to stand still but to be allowed to continue, even after leaving politics.� - Angela Merkel]]> 720 Angela Merkel 1250319900 Duncan 0 to-read 3.77 2024 Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021
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]]> <![CDATA[A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War]]> 781354 Map best viewed on a tablet device.

An account of the Spanish civil war which portrays the struggles of the war, as well as discussing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, the emergence of brutal dictatorship on the nationalist side and the extent to which the Spanish war prefigured World War II.

No war in modern times has inflamed the passions of both ordinary people and intellectuals in the way that the conflict in Spain in 1936 did. The Spanish Civil War is burned into European consciousness, not simply because it prefigured the much larger world war that followed it, but because the intense manner of its prosecution was a harbinger of a new and horrific form of warfare that was universally dreaded. At the same time, the hopes awakened by the attempted social revolution in republican Spain chimed with the aspirations of many in Europe and the United States during the grim years of the great Depression.

'The Concise History of the Spanish Civil War' is a full-blooded account of this pivotal period in the twentieth-century European history. Paul Preston vividly recounts the struggles of the war, analyses the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, tracks the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship and assesses the way in which the Spanish Civil War was a portent of the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it.

]]> 259 Paul Preston 0006863736 Duncan 0 to-read 3.99 1978 A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War
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]]> <![CDATA[An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)]]> 541920
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in WW II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of the Allied powers without a grasp of the great drama that unfolded in North Africa in 1942 and 1943. That first year of the Allied war was a pivotal point in American history, the moment when the United States began to act like a great power.

Beginning with the daring amphibious invasion in November 1942, An Army at Dawn follows the American and British armies as they fight the French in Morocco and Algeria, and then take on the Germans and Italians in Tunisia. Battle by battle, an inexperienced and sometimes poorly led army gradually becomes a superb fighting force. Central to the tale are the extraordinary but fallible commanders who come to dominate the battlefield: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, and Rommel.

Brilliantly researched, rich with new material and vivid insights, Atkinson's narrative provides the definitive history of the war in North Africa.]]> 681 Rick Atkinson 0805062882 Duncan 0 to-read 4.28 2002 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait]]> 41817544 416 Bathsheba Demuth 0393635163 Duncan 0 4.31 2019 Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
author: Bathsheba Demuth
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]]> <![CDATA[Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (Oral Public History (Dis))]]> 1569480 362 Alison Baker 0791436225 Duncan 0 to-read 3.62 1998 Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (Oral Public History (Dis))
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]]> Arctic Dreams 16878
This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing.

The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forest, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of the indigenous people, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, beguilement, and wonder.

Written in prose as memorably pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.]]> 464 Barry Lopez 0375727485 Duncan 0 to-read 4.24 1986 Arctic Dreams
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]]> <![CDATA[Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East)]]> 1447721 323 Patricia M.E. Lorcin 1860643760 Duncan 0 4.11 1995 Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria (Society and Culture in the Modern Middle East)
author: Patricia M.E. Lorcin
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]]> Reporter: A Memoir 36896499 368 Seymour M. Hersh 0307263959 Duncan 0 4.08 2018 Reporter: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition]]> 142133 The Garden of Truth presents the beliefs and vision of the mystical heart of Islam, along with a history of Sufi saints and schools of thought.

In a world threatened by religious wars, depleting natural resources, a crumbling ecosystem, and alienation and isolation, what has happened to our humanity? Who are we and what are we doing here? The Sufi path offers a journey toward truth, to a knowledge that transcends our mundane concerns, selfish desires, and fears. In Sufism we find a wisdom that brings peace and a relationship with God that nurtures the best in us and in others.

Noted scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr helps you learn the secret wisdom tradition of Islam and enter what the ancient mystics call the "garden of truth." Here, liberate your mind, experience peace, discover your purpose, fall in love with the Divine, and find your true, best self.]]> 256 Seyyed Hossein Nasr 0060797223 Duncan 0 to-read 4.13 2007 The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition
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]]> <![CDATA[A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930]]> 834255 384 Alice L. Conklin 0804740127 Duncan 0 to-read 3.58 1996 A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
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]]> A History of Modern Morocco 15859733 336 Susan Gilson Miller 0521008999 Duncan 0 to-read 3.74 2012 A History of Modern Morocco
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]]> A History of Algeria 34542337 0 James McDougall 1108166660 Duncan 0 to-read 3.93 2017 A History of Algeria
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]]> <![CDATA[Histoire du Maroc depuis l'indépendance]]> 17279020 128 Pierre Vermeren 2707148652 Duncan 0 to-read 3.95 2002 Histoire du Maroc depuis l'indépendance
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]]> <![CDATA[Médecine et colonialisme au Maroc sous protectorat français (2021)]]> 111595301 La médecine moderne aurait été introduite au Maroc par le colonisateur français et serait une conséquence positive de la colonisation. Reda Sadiki revient sur ce postulat bien ancré pour interroger les liens entre médecine et colonialisme. Il démontre, historiographie à l’appui, que la médecine a en fait été un instrument consubstantiel de la politique coloniale et qu’il y a eu non pas un apport à sens unique mais un ensemble d’interactions et d’échanges qui ont nourri la médecine mondiale.

Extrait de la conclusion
« La relecture de la médecine, et du passé colonial de façon générale, est aussi un moyen d’accommoder ou de déconstruire les schèmes élaborés durant cette période et qui gouvernent encore nombre de réflexes, de raisonnements, d’attitudes et de mentalités devenus forcément anachroniques et obsolescents. De l’eurocentrisme à l’hypocrisie de l’élévation morale compatissante, l’impensé colonial continue d’animer les esprits et d’inspirer bien des politiques internationales. La décolonisation des savoirs avance malgré tout sur ce terrain difficile où les conditionnements, les attachements à l’ordre établi et le refus des ruptures sont souvent très forts dans les anciennes métropoles. En agissant de la sorte, en se maintenant dans l’impasse ethnocentrique et en s’excluant des débats mondiaux à l’heure où le centre de gravité de notre planète se déplace irrésistiblement vers de nouveaux pôles émergents, celles-ci accélèrent ironiquement ce contre quoi elles luttent : leur provincialisation. »

Sommaire
Introduction
L’alibi humanitaire
La médecine au service de la colonisation
Médecine, ségrégation et idéologie
La colonisation au service de la médecine
Postérités de la médecine coloniale
Bibliographie]]> 272 Reda Sadiki 9954987983 Duncan 0 to-read 0.0 Médecine et colonialisme au Maroc sous protectorat français (2021)
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]]> Dispatches 4339 Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.

Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.]]> 260 Michael Herr 0679735259 Duncan 0 to-read 4.22 1977 Dispatches
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]]> <![CDATA[Interview With History (English and Italian Edition)]]> 70688 376 Oriana Fallaci 0395252237 Duncan 0 to-read 4.20 1974 Interview With History (English and Italian Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good: The Spread of Historical Amnesia (Baraka Nonfiction)]]> 57225106 200 Francesco Filippi 1771862629 Duncan 0 to-read 3.83 2019 Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good: The Spread of Historical Amnesia (Baraka Nonfiction)
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]]> <![CDATA[Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds]]> 153499 435 Natalie Zemon Davis 0809094347 Duncan 0 to-read 3.52 2006 Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
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]]> <![CDATA[The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle]]> 6878157 336 Harold James 0674035844 Duncan 0 to-read 3.45 2009 The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
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]]> We Have Never Been Modern 134569
What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour’s analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming—and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture—and so, between our culture and others, past and present.

Nothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape, We Have Never Been Modern blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.]]> 168 Bruno Latour 0674948394 Duncan 0 3.94 1991 We Have Never Been Modern
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era]]> 58986869
The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces--that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word "neoliberal" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs in developing nations around the world.

To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order , these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades. As he shows, the neoliberal order that emerged in America in the 1970s fused ideas of deregulation with personal freedoms, open borders with cosmopolitanism, and globalization with the promise of increased prosperity for all. Along with tracing how this worldview emerged in America and grew to dominate the world, Gerstle explores the previously unrecognized extent to which its triumph was facilitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies. He is also the first to chart the story of the neoliberal order's fall, originating in the failed reconstruction of
Iraq and Great Recession of the Bush years and culminating in the rise of Trump and a reinvigorated Bernie Sanders-led American left in the 2010s.

An indispensable and sweeping re-interpretation of the last fifty years, this book illuminates how the ideology of neoliberalism became so infused in the daily life of an era, while probing what remains of that ideology and its political programs as America enters an uncertain future.]]> 432 Gary Gerstle 0197519644 Duncan 0 to-read 4.19 The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History]]> 61871743 A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America

� A National Bestseller

“Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the book’s sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.”—Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal

“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.”� Washington Post Book World, “Books to Read in 2023�

The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.

Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that

� European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success;

� Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire;

� the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior;

� California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War;

� the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West;

� twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy.

Blackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.]]> 596 Ned Blackhawk 0300244053 Duncan 0 to-read 4.15 2023 The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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]]> The Comanche Empire 3304956 A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire

In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power, commercial reach, and cultural influence. Yet, until now, the Comanche empire has gone unrecognized in American history.

This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches. It is a story that challenges the idea of indigenous peoples as victims of European expansion and offers a new model for the history of colonial expansion, colonial frontiers, and Native-European relations in North America and elsewhere. Pekka Hämäläinen shows in vivid detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they fell to defeat in 1875. With extensive knowledge and deep insight, the author brings into clear relief the Comanches� remarkable impact on the trajectory of history.

Published in Association with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.]]> 500 Pekka Hämäläinen 0300126549 Duncan 0 to-read 4.17 2008 The Comanche Empire
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]]> <![CDATA[Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America]]> 60215300
Yet as with other long-accepted origin stories, this one, too, turns out to be based in myth and distortion. In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals.

From the Iroquois in the Northeast to the Comanches on the Plains, and from the Pueblos in the Southwest to the Cherokees in the Southeast, Native nations frequently decimated white newcomers in battle. Even as the white population exploded and colonists� land greed grew more extravagant, Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and leadership structures.

By 1776, various colonial powers claimed nearly all of the continent, but Indigenous peoples still controlled it—as Hämäläinen points out, the maps in modern textbooks that paint much of North America in neat, color-coded blocks confuse outlandish imperial boasts for actual holdings. In fact, Native power peaked in the late nineteenth century, with the Lakota victory in 1876 at Little Big Horn, which was not an American blunder, but an all-too-expected outcome.

Hämäläinen ultimately contends that the very notion of “colonial America� is misleading, and that we should speak instead of an “Indigenous America� that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial. The evidence of Indigenous defiance is apparent today in the hundreds of Native nations that still dot the United States and Canada. Necessary reading for anyone who cares about America’s past, present, and future, Indigenous Continent restores Native peoples to their rightful place at the very fulcrum of American history.]]> 592 Pekka Hämäläinen 1631496999 Duncan 0 to-read 4.00 2022 Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
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]]> <![CDATA[Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles]]> 391684 575 William Prochnau 0679772650 Duncan 0 to-read 4.22 1995 Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
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]]> A Cyborg Manifesto 16308894 88 Donna J. Haraway Duncan 0 to-read 3.77 1985 A Cyborg Manifesto
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]]> <![CDATA[On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist]]> 52026161 On All Fronts is the riveting account of Ward's singular career and of journalism in this age of extremism.

Following a privileged but lonely childhood, Ward found her calling as an international war correspondent in the aftermath of 9/11. From her early days in the field, she was embedding with marines at the height of the Iraq War and was soon on assignment all over the globe. But nowhere does Ward make her mark more than in war-torn Syria, which she has covered extensively with courage and compassion. From her multiple stints entrenched with Syrian rebels to her deep investigations into the Western extremists who are drawn to ISIS, Ward has covered Bashar al-Assad's reign of terror without fear. In 2018, Ward rose to new heights at CNN and had a son. Suddenly, she was doing this hardest of jobs with a whole new perspective.

On All Fronts is the unforgettable story of one extraordinary journalist--and of a changing world.]]> 336 Clarissa Ward 0525561471 Duncan 0 audiobook, best-of-2023 4.51 2020 On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
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]]> <![CDATA[Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere: A Postcolonial Programme]]> 100187610 320 Alexandra Hofmanner 3757400348 Duncan 0 0.0 Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere: A Postcolonial Programme
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]]> <![CDATA[Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis]]> 210175834 304 Jon Waterman 1952338239 Duncan 0 to-read 4.12 Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis
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]]> <![CDATA[Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (New African Histories)]]> 41839967 336 David Morton 0821423673 Duncan 0 currently-reading 5.00 Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (New African Histories)
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]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter]]> 34448463 320 Zohra Drif 1682570754 Duncan 0 to-read 4.34 2017 Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
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]]> <![CDATA[I Is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan]]> 818943 208 Kathy Gannon 1586483129 Duncan 0 to-read 3.78 2005 I Is for Infidel: From Holy War to Holy Terror: 18 Years Inside Afghanistan
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]]> <![CDATA[Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity]]> 11869272
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter - Annawadi's "most-everything girl" - will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy."

But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.]]> 278 Katherine Boo 1400067553 Duncan 0 to-read 3.97 2012 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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]]> An Island 59576018 LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A "powerful" (The Guardian) novel about a lighthouse keeper with a mysterious past, and the stranger who washes up on his shores--the American debut of a major voice in world literature.

Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself.

One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he nurses the stranger back to life, Samuel--feeling strangely threatened--is soon swept up in memories of his former life as a political prisoner on the mainland. This was a life that saw his country exploited under colonial rule, followed by a period of revolution and a brief, hard-won independence--only for the cycle of suffering to continue under a cruel dictator. And he can't help but recall his own shameful role in that history. In this stranger's presence, he begins to consider, as he did in his youth: What does it mean to own land, or to belong to it? And what does it cost to have, and lose, a home?

A timeless and gripping portrait of regret, terror, and the extraordinary stakes of companionship, An Island is a story as page-turning as it is profound.]]> 224 Karen Jennings 0593446526 Duncan 0 to-read 3.47 2020 An Island
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]]> <![CDATA[Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park (New African Histories)]]> 48669857 350 Jacob S. T. Dlamini 0821424084 Duncan 0 to-read 3.97 2020 Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park (New African Histories)
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]]> <![CDATA[Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940]]> 108295 The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century

Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, George Chauncey constructs a fascinating portrait of a vibrant, cohesive gay world that is not supposed to have existed. Called "monumental" (Washington Post), "unassailable" (Boston Globe), "brilliant" (The Nation), and "a first-rate book of history" (The New York Times), Gay New Yorkforever changed how we think about the history of gay life in New York City, and beyond.]]> 496 George Chauncey 0465026214 Duncan 0 4.26 1994 Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940
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]]> <![CDATA[Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II]]> 273197 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways neither side could anticipate. Dower, whom Stephen E. Ambrose has called "America's foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific," gives us the rich and turbulent interplay between West and East, the victor and the vanquished, in a way never before attempted, from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes and fears of men and women in every walk of life. Already regarded as the benchmark in its field, Embracing Defeat is a work of colossal scholarship and history of the very first order.]]> 676 John W. Dower 0393320278 Duncan 0 to-read 4.14 1999 Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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]]> <![CDATA[Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty]]> 43868109 The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.]]> 535 Patrick Radden Keefe 0385545681 Duncan 0 to-read 4.54 2021 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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]]> Playground 205478762 The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.]]> 381 Richard Powers 1324086033 Duncan 0 to-read 4.16 2024 Playground
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]]> <![CDATA[Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis]]> 145624514
Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already been deported from the United States, but it remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. Their homes have become uninhabitable. They will take their chances.

This vast and unremitting crisis did not spring up overnight. Indeed, as Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, it is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country’s tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture for the first time.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is an odyssey of struggle and resilience. With astonishing nuance and detail, Blitzer tells an epic story about the people whose lives ebb and flow across the border, and in doing so, he delves into the heart of American life itself. This vital and remarkable story has shaped the nation’s turbulent politics and culture in countless ways—and will almost certainly determine its future.]]> 544 Jonathan Blitzer 1984880802 Duncan 0 to-read 4.47 2024 Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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