Political genre books (273)
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Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams EN
Country: North America / 
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Description:
"Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the I... continue
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy EN
IndiaDescription:
The “courageous and clarion” Booker Prize–winner “continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism” (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic prod... continue
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City on Fire : The Fight for Hong Kong by ANTONY. DAPIRAN EN
AustraliaDescription:
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People's Liberation Army to the doorstep of Hong Kong. Driven primarily by youth protesters with their 'Be water!' philosophy, borrowed from hometown hero Bruce Lee, this l... continue
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Como si yo no estuviera by Slavenka Drakulic ES
CroatiaDescription:
S. es bosnia y está en un hospital de Estocolmo, donde ha dado a luz un niño. ¿Por qué sólo siente indiferencia, y hasta se imagina sofocándolo con una almohada? No quiere ni siquiera verlo, y antes de que naciera ya lo había dispuesto todo para darlo en adopción. Pero ella casi no habla sueco, se produce un malentendido y las enfermeras lo dejan a su lado. Aquello abre las puertas de la memoria y S., en la cama del hospital, recuerda el verano de 1992, cuando los soldados serbios ocuparon el pueblo en el que ella vivía y trabajaba... continue
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Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi EN
ItalyDescription:
Number 4 in the Don Camillo series, beloved by 23 million readers. When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience he must accept the battling priest's presence among a group of communist activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. Travelling incognito, Don Camillo becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd manipulation. But then fate intervenes and the travellers discover a surprise common denominator more radical than any political ideology... 'Those who read The Little World of Don Camill... continue
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said EN
PalestineDescription:
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. "Grandly conceived . . . urgently written and urgently needed. . . . No one studying the relations between the metropolitan West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work.' --The New York Times Book Review In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield P... continue
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Dagboek Majdan by Andrej Jurʹevič Kurkov NL
UkraineDescription:
Dagboekfragmenten van de Oekraïense schrijver (1961) waarin hij een inkijkje geeft in zijn dagelijks leven ten tijde van de grootschalige Euromajdan-protesten in Kyiv van november 2013 tot en met april 2014.
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters : The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply reported book, Jason Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood conflict through the experiences of those who engineered and perpetrated it. He depicts village pastors who survived massacres, the child soldier assassin of President Kabila, a female Hutu activist who relives the hunting a... continue