Books
Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative
October 25, 2021International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long...
Read more‘All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running’: A novel in review
September 29, 2021The idea of collective shaping of a clear vision of how the world is and how it ought to be is a central theme of Rodriques’s first novel All the Water I’ve Seen Is Running.
Read moreHidden history: The truth about Reconstruction
September 17, 2021Back in 1988, historian Eric Foner brought us the story of a revolution reversed; it's worth revisiting today.
Read more‘Fearing the Black Body’ uses history to dismantle fat phobia, health inequality
September 2, 2021Strings does a fine job of collecting all of this material for the reader to take in, but her voice gets lost in all the facts and data. At times, 'Fearing the Black Body' reads like...
Read more‘Morals of the Market’: When human rights cover for neoliberal hegemony
August 30, 2021It's a timely book, as shown by the escalating accusations between the U.S. and Chinese governments over what constitutes human rights.
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