1848+: Last and First Men

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/02/sugar-barons-matthew-parker-review The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker – review The cane fields of the West Indies hid a corrupt society Ian Thomson The Guardian, Saturday 2 April 2011 In Jamaica recently, I was invited to lunch at a Restoration-era plantation house. The sound of crushed ice clinking against glass greeted me, as bow-tied waiters served [...]

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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n05/terry-eagleton/indomitable Indomitable Terry Eagleton How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm Little, Brown, 470 pp, £25.00, January 2011, ISBN 978 1 4087 0287 1 In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most of them no longer felt [...]

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http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/The-Fiery-Trial/ba-p/3931 December 30, 2010 The Fiery Trial By ERIC FONER Reviewed by Scott McLemee Just after publishing The Black Jacobins (1938), his great history of the Haitian slave revolt, the Trinidadian man of letters C. L. R James settled in the United States, where, in due course, he began to think of writing about Abraham [...]

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The Great American Stickup How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street Robert Scheer/from The Nation September 2010 ISBN: 1568584342 In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 [...]

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October 20, 2010 — /Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal/, with the permission of Monthy Review Press, is excited to offer its readers an excerpt from the /The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth/, an important new book by *John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark* and *Richard York*. * * * In /The Ecological Rift: [...]

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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 [...]

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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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