recommend me a good book

[which doctor]

I'm looking to buy a good book. I will probably buy it online seeing as how it's convenient and has the largest selection. I would like the price to be under $30, but something around $20 would be much better.

I was thinking of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization by David Graeber, or Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements And The Decolonization Of Everyday Life by George Katsiaficas.

I like books about history, indigenous life & resistance, anthropology, theory, art, contemporary issues etc. Don't recommend anything by Chomsky, please.

[Angry Young Man]

Have a look in your local library, ya lazy toss! That's what they're there for!

Failingt that, go to the nearest large city.

[More Fire for the People]

Wretched of the Earth and Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination.

[Rawthentic]

HA, when I saw this thread and before I opened it, I was going to put Fanon's book as well, was I am currently reading it. Great book, although some things confuse me.

[More Fire for the People]

Originally posted by Voz de la Gente [email protected] 26, 2007 04:11 pm
HA, when I saw this thread and before I opened it, I was going to put Fanon's book as well, was I am currently reading it. Great book, although some things confuse me.
I read most of it but I had to return it back to the library. I had deep regrets in not finishing it. I think Fanon clarifies a lot of things and puts the arguments of 'orthodox' anti-imperialists — those who support all national liberation movements from Vietnam to Hamas — and 'orthodox' left-communists — who oppose national liberation movements no matter their form and content. He brings up several ideas that I think are necessary to the constant re-evaluation of communist movement: the re-creation of oneself, violence as therapy and therapeutic violence, catharsis, 'tribalistic' intra-class conflict, the ideal of the oppressor as the ideal human, and so on. In the 1950s he was able to foresee the problems that would face the Black, Latino, and Native ghettos in America and was able to foresee the culture they would create — cathartic dancing: from tribal dances to clubbing & grinding is perhaps the greatest observations [ you can interpret greatest in which ever manner suits best :lol: ].

[Leo]

I'm looking to buy a good book. I will probably buy it online seeing as how it's convenient and has the largest selection. I would like the price to be under $30, but something around $20 would be much better.

I was thinking of Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization by David Graeber, or Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements And The Decolonization Of Everyday Life by George Katsiaficas.

I like books about history, indigenous life & resistance, anthropology, theory, art, contemporary issues etc. Don't recommend anything by Chomsky, please.

I would suggest C.L.R James' book called The Black Jacobins. The book focuses on Toussaint L'Ouverture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toussaint_L'Ouverture) and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution). C.L.R James was a Trotskyist but he was not an ordinary Trotskyist, he was in the Forrest-Johnson Tendency and they ended up rejection the USSR as state-capitalist and defying the World War 2 as imperialist. He had a wrong position on national liberation for the 20th century in my opinion but he is very good while dealing with the earlier period and it is a very interesting book.

Here's the link for it if you want to buy it online. (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Jacobins-Toussaint-LOuverture-Revolution/dp/0679724672) You can probably find it in every library though.

[Organic Revolution]

Orgasms Of History- Yves Fremion

Its about historical uprisings and revolts.

[which doctor]

Originally posted by Romantic [email protected] 26, 2007 03:42 pm
Have a look in your local library, ya lazy toss! That's what they're there for!

Failingt that, go to the nearest large city.
My local library is horrible. Practically any book remotely regarding radical issues was written by a reactionary capitalist. There are a few gems (like one or two) such as a cool book on Haymarket and other radical currents at the time, but besides that there really isn't much of a selection. Plus US librarians often have to give up library records to the government :blink:, a little creepy if you ask me.

Thanks for The Wretched of the Earth, especially since I consider myself an aspiring anthropologist and psychiatrist (the fields are intertwined linked in my opinion).

[Led Zeppelin]

A People's History of the United States is pretty good.

[ChickenJoe]

Try "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy or " The Cooperative Commonwealth: An Expostion of Modern Socialism" by Laurence Gronlund.

[praxis1966]

Yeah, definately check out Wretched of the Earth. Also, you might take a look at Resistance, Rebellion, and Death by Albert Camus who covers the same ground as Fanon but from a different angle.

Alternatively, if you want something on indigenous movements in the Western Hemisphere, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown, Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas by George A. Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthieson are all excellent.

[Pawn Power]

I will fourth The Wretched of the Earth. Black Skin White Masks could also be read with that. Together they provide a good insight into Fanon's views on imperialsim, race, culture, and resistance.

As far as anthropology goes I could recomened various texts on different topics. Do you have a specific intrest within anthropology?

[Faceless]

Germinal by Emile Zola

[ahab]

read 1421: the year china discovered america by Gavin Menzies...its wild

[che_diwas]

I haven't read that much.. because Its hard to find the originals one.. and the translated once are very weak in literature... I read some books recently... which are:

1. Mother - Maxim Gorky
2. Short stories collection - Maxim Gorky
3. A brief history of time - Stephan Hawkins
4. The grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck
5. Of mice and men - " "
6. Animal Farm - George Orwell
7. The Trial - Franz Kafka
8. Sophies World - Justin Gardener

[Led Zeppelin]

Gorky is one of my favorite authors, you should check out his three-volume auto-biography if you liked his other works. It's written like a novel so it's pretty good.

[Tatarin]

I'd say any book written by Michael Parenti.

[chimx]

Life Is Elsewhere - Kundera
Wind From an Enemy Sky - D'arcy McNickel (very important american indian author)

I have been meaning to read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. You might be interested in checking it out too.

[che's long lost daughter]

Any book by Milan Kundera

[Mujer Libre]

Pedagogy of Freedom by Paulo Freire or The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy.

[The Advent of Anarchy]

A list:

The Mother, by Maxim Gorky.

V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore (The movie was good, and maybe the book is.)

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

All Quiet on the Western Front (I forget the author's name)

[Leo]

Gorky really writes well and Mother is an excellent book. I don't think it covers "history, indigenous life & resistance, anthropology, theory, art, contemporary issues etc." though.

[Eleftherios]

I've got a few history books if you are interested.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer- A classic

Inside Hitler's Greece by Mark Mazower- a completely unbiased account of the occupation of Greece

Mussolini's Italy by R.J.B. Bosworth- A good book if you wish to understand fascism in Italy

Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green- A very good, if not favorable, biography of Alexander the Great. While I do not agree with the author, it still makes for a good read

The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian- A much more favorable account of Alexander's conquests

The Histories by Herodotus- Another classic

People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn- I think you've probably already heard of this one

[Never Give In]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27, 2007 09:12 am
A People's History of the United States is pretty good.
Just about to say that one. I actually just recently finished it.

[Never Give In]

Originally posted by [email protected] 05, 2007 09:48 pm
I've got a few history books if you are interested.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer- A classic

Inside Hitler's Greece by Mark Mazower- a completely unbiased account of the occupation of Greece

Mussolini's Italy by R.J.B. Bosworth- A good book if you wish to understand fascism in Italy

Alexander of Macedon by Peter Green- A very good, if not favorable, biography of Alexander the Great. While I do not agree with the author, it still makes for a good read

The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian- A much more favorable account of Alexander's conquests

The Histories by Herodotus- Another classic

People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn- I think you've probably already heard of this one
Also all good books.