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Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad
Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?
Insects on white flowers
4/22/14: An Earth Day Round Up
alienation in the society
3/28/14: On Alienation and Consumption, Then & Now
The ruins of Ludlow
Which Side Are You On?: The Ludlow Massacre and Class Struggle in 1914
The flag of Ethiopia under the rule of the Derg, 1975-1987
Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine
Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt, by Charles R. Geisst Philadelphia By Spencer Tyce Book Cover.
Natural Laws and Predatory Lending for 3000 Years
The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960-2010, by Crawford Young Book Cover.
Fifty Years and Counting
This Cold War-era poster carries the slogan 'Chairman Mao is the great savior of the revolutionary peoples of the world' and an illustration of African freedom fighters reading a copy of Mao's little book of quotations.
A New World Order? Africa and China
Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street
"Class Warfare" in American History
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.
The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Brown, Peter Book Cover.
What to Do About the Money?
This detail from an early-20th-century image over the entrance to an arms factory in Belgium depicts a European arms manufacturer selling a gun to a darker-skinned purchaser in an exotic setting.
"Merchants of Death": The International Traffic in Arms
Detail from the painting Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the French Revolution of 1830.
Socialism Takes Over France, Again?
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
Cover A Revolution in Taste The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800 by Susan Pinkard.
Bon Appetit, Historically Speaking
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.
Invisible Man
Cover of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James.
Blood and Steel
Cover of Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith.
Between the East and the West
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.
All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.
Wagging the Dog
Cover of Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean by Molly Greene.
Pirates, Pirates Everywhere but Not Enough of Them in This Book
Cover of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel.
The Man Who Re-Invented China
Cover of Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.
The Gifts That Keep On Giving