1848+: Last and First Men

http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/07/20/fur_fortune_and_empire_eric_jay_dolin
Tuesday, Jul 20, 2010 09:15 ET
“Fur, Fortune, and Empire”: How the fur trade shaped America
Animal pelts helped create our nation — and spawn a global power
struggle. A fascinating new book explains how

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http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/2036
Is Anti-Capitalism Enough? The New Crisis & the Left
— Howard Brick
The New Spirit of Capitalism
by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello
translated by Gregory Elliott
Verso Books 2006, paperback edition 2007, 656 pages, $39.95.

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The potentate of potions
The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy
By Adrienne Mayor
Princeton Univ. 448 pp. $29.95
“The Poison King” is, as its subtitle makes clear, the story of the life of Mithradates, leader of the ancient Black Sea kingdom of Pontus, who, in the 1st century B.C., did everything he could to overthrow the [...]

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Review – Why Us?
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
by James Le Fanu
Pantheon, 2009
Review by Chris Vaughan

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Metropolitan Glory
From Paris to Timbuktu, the urban places that have played illustrious roles in the world’s story
By TUNKU VARADARAJAN

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Charles Esdaile
The Bear Against The Cockrel
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
Dominic Lieven (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press 617pp £30)
Readers familiar with Tolstoy’s War and Peace will possibly remember a dramatic incident that occurs in the wake of the French invasion of Russia. Alone at her estate of Bleak Hills following the death [...]

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Engels bio: Marx’s General

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Open Veins of Latin America

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On Lewontin review in NYRB

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Thoroughly Modern Marx
By Leo Panitch May/June 2009
Lights. Camera. Action. Das Kapital. Now.
The economic crisis has spawned a resurgence of interest in Karl Marx. Worldwide sales of Das Kapital have shot up (one lone German publisher sold thousands of copies in 2008, compared with 100 the year before), a measure of a crisis so broad [...]

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