A people's history of the Second World War : resistance versus empire / by Gluckstein, Donny, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Pt. 3: Germany, Austria and Italy - Under the Axis ; Germany: Conservatives and Antifa ; Austria: Resistance and Ruling Class Capitulation ; Italy: The Working Class and the Two Wars. -- Pt. 4: India, Indonesia and Vietnam - Different Enemies ; India: From Famine to Independence ; Indonesia: Axis and Allies United Against the People ; Vietnam: Anti-Imperialist Breakthrough.…”

After the crisis : anthropological thought, neoliberalism and the aftermath /

Table of Contents: “…Carrier -- History, power and the rise of the United States ruling class / Michael Blim -- Migration and insecurity : rethinking mobility in the neoliberal age / Jeffrey H. …”

What went wrong? : the Nicaraguan Revolution : a Marxist analysis / by La Botz, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Nicaragua: a nation but not a state (from the beginning to 1893) -- The struggle to construct a sovereign state: Zelaya and Sandino (1893-1932) -- The Somoza dynastic dictatorship (1936-75) -- The founding of the Sandinista front for national liberation (1962-78) -- The Sandinista revolution (1975-79) -- The Sandinistas in power (1979-84) -- The Sandinistas and the Contra war (1985-90) -- Violeta Chamorro: A new ruling class, a new state, a new economy (1990-96) -- Alemán and Bolaños: corruption in power (1996-2006) -- The Ortega government (2006- ) -- Epilogue: results and prospects.…”
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Imperatores Victi : Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic. by Rosenstein, Nathan S.

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The spook who sat by the door : a novel / by Greenlee, Sam, 1930-2014

Scholars and sultans in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Atçıl, Abdurrahman

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The idiot / by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

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Understanding Plato / by Melling, David J.

Table of Contents: “…Plato's life and background -- Plato's writings -- Early dialogues : the Laches -- Can virtue be taught : the Protgoras -- Philosopher and anti-philosopher : the rhetor -- Learning and recollection : the Meno -- Preparing the soul for death : the Phaedo -- The ideal polis -- Educating the ruling class -- The theory of Forms or Ideas -- Problems with Ideas : the Parmenides -- The nature of knowledge : the Theaetetus -- The later dialectic : the Sophist and the Statesman -- The living world and the God who made it -- Plato's last word : the Laws.…”
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How class works : power and social movement / by Aronowitz, Stanley

Table of Contents: “…Class matters -- Time and space in class theory -- History and class theory -- Does the United States have a ruling class? -- National and international blocs -- The new social movements and class -- Ecology and class -- Utopia on hold.…”
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Visions of the Emerald City : modernity, tradition, and the formation of Porfirian Oaxaca, Mexico / by Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark

Table of Contents: “…La vallistocracia : the formation of Oaxaca's ruling class -- The legible city : constructed, symbolic, and disciplined spaces -- "A new political religious order" : church, state, and workers -- "A necessary evil" : regulating public space and public women -- Portraits of a lady : visions of modernity -- Conclusions : the consquences of modernity.…”
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Social life in pre-reformation Dublin 1450-1540 / by Slattery, Peadar

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1587 A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Huang

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Culture and liberty in the age of the American Revolution / by Rozbicki, Michał

Table of Contents: “…The backlash: Revolutionary vocabulary against revoutionary government ; Party struggles and the expansion of liberty ; Ruling class: a crisis of identity ; Useful mob ; People's aristocracy.…”

Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 / by Colley, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Crisis of an order; The making of the British ruling class; The cultural reconstruction of an elite; Heroes of their own epic -- Majesty. …”

The guise of exceptionalism : unmasking the national narratives of Haiti and the United States / by Fatton, Robert

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Criticism of Earth : On Marx, Engels and Theology. by Boer, Roland

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; Synopsis; The terrain of struggle: theology and the Bible; Conclusion; Chapter One The Subterranean Bible; Outwitting the censor; Against the ruling class; Clergy as part of a corrupt ruling class; Economic allusions; Against other opponents; Appropriation and ambivalence; Conclusion; Chapter Two The Leading Article: Theology, Philosophy and Science; Theology and scientific research; Theology and philosophy; Church and state; Fetishism and idolatry; Conclusion; Chapter Three Against the Theological Hegelians I: Bruno Bauer.…”
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The ANC's early years : nation, class and place in South Africa before 1940 / by Limb, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Perspectives on ANC-labour history -- Black labour in South Africa to 1940 -- Early African political organisations and black labour -- The SANNC and African working people -- To "heartily ... assist the working movement as best they can" : Congress and black labour in the Transvaal, 1912-1919 -- "Join our union -- you will find good result" : Congress and labour in the Cape, Natal and Orange Free State, 1912-1919 -- "A strong seed in a stony bed" : the 1920s -- "The ruling class is getting lost in the mist and sea of selfishness" : Natal in the 1920s -- "I-Kongilesi Lilizwi enzindlwini" (Congress's name is Household) : the Transvaal, Cape and Orange Free State in the 1920s -- From "culpable inertia" to rebuilding : the ANC and labour in the 1930s -- Moderate centre, militant province? …”

Exploring the economy of late antiquity : selected essays / by Banaji, Jairus, 1947-

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Elites and society / by Bottomore, T. B., 1920-1992

Table of Contents: “…The elite: concept and ideology -- From the ruling class to the power elite -- Politics and the circulation of elites -- Intellectuals, managers and bureaucrats -- Tradition and modernity: elites in the developing countries -- Democracy and the plurality of elites -- Equality or elites? …”
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Algorithms and the end of politics : how technology shapes 21st-century American life / by Timcke, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Liberation is not opaque -- 2 The One- Dimensionality of Data -- Acemoglu and Robinson's econometrics -- The politics of quantities -- Reification, mystification and alienation -- The spector of positivism -- A depoliticization of the social question -- 3 Reactionary Tendencies in the Ruling Class -- Finance and class struggle -- Downplaying class differentiation -- Information robber barons -- Infrastructures for reactionary politics -- Ruling class solidarity -- 4 Platforms of Power -- Staving off class struggle 'from below' -- Democratic socialism was the compromise…”
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