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Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
by Stephen F. Cohen
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Putin And The Rise Of Russia: The Country That Came In From The Cold
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| Want to write a full review, but in the mean time I highly recommend this book. Very interesting exploration of Germany's colonial exploits in Africa, including genocide in what is now Namibia. The second half of the book traces connections between t...more | |
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by Benedict Anderson
read in August, 2011
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| I've tried to read this book twice, at an interval of some 14 years. Both times I got bogged down in the first six or eight chapters, particularly in some dialogue that dragged on and on with little sense of plot or progression. My main motivation fo...more | |
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| While serving as a Johannesburg-based correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, Tim Butcher became obsessed with the idea of retracing the footsteps of one of his predecessors, the former Telegraph correspondent and explorer H.M. Stanley (he of "Doctor ...more | |
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A Swamp Full Of Dollars: Pipelines And Paramilitaries At Nigeria's Oil Frontier
by Michael Peel
read in January, 2011
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| Employing the classic combination of the investigative journalist's personal anecdotes alongside more conventional historical narratives, former Financial Times Nigeria correspondent Michael Peel paints a vivid portrait of petropolitics and graft in ...more | |
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Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People
by Kevin Bales (Goodreads Author)
read in November, 2010
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| This book reminds us that slavery did not disappear with its legal abolition. In fact, more people are enslaved now than ever before in human history. But because slavery is illegal everywhere, it has taken on many forms that are hidden in our societ...more | |
