Andrés Pertierra Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph ConradAndrés PertierraFor those interested, there's King Leopold's Ghost, which is apparently a very readable serious history. The horrors of the Belgian Congo were also the inspiration for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Conrad personally visited the Belgian Congo before writing it.
Paperback, 1990
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob BurckhardtAndrés PertierraI’m sure that, like Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is woefully out of date in terms of the actual history But, also like Gibbon, the prose is just so so so good https://t.co/iwN5k7UTGm
Paperback, 2002
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Lineages of the Absolutist State
Perry AndersonAndrés PertierraEven today Perry Anderson will periodically come down from his mountaintop to drop another 60 page essay eviscerating some book or author Honestly, gotta respect that we’re never getting the sequel to lineages of the absolutist state but he always has time to be a hater
Paperback, 2013
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The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves
Lúcio de SousaAndrés PertierraApparently there is an entire book on the Portuguese slave trade in early modern Japan (!?). The slaves apparently came from Japan, China, and Korea. Seems like a legit source; the author is a Portuguese historian currently teaching at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies https://t.co/hBEKpQ22Ee https://t.co/vJ78vH0ylo
Hardcover, 2018
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Manning MarableAndrés PertierraI’ve known about the plagiarism and other issues with Roots for a while, and Manning Marable’s Malcolm X biography addresses the major omissions and distortions of that classic book, but this lie may be the worst thing that’s come out so far
Paperback, 2011
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph ConradAndrés PertierraFor those interested, there's King Leopold's Ghost, which is apparently a very readable serious history. The horrors of the Belgian Congo were also the inspiration for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Conrad personally visited the Belgian Congo before writing it.
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Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Vincent BrownAndrés Pertierra@lodgepolepines @rameradam Ah, selection is a bit thinner there. You have Eric Williams' Capitalism & Slavery is a classic and is in audiobook format. Vincent Brown's Tacky's Revolt is too, though earlier than you're looking for. Mintz's Sweetness & Power also focuses more on how sugar is consumed.
Paperback, 2022
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Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938
Stephen F. CohenAndrés Pertierra@pseudoerasmus Funny that you mention it, because I just looked up whether Cohen's 'Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938' was out yet (it was). I wonder if somebody in the USSR ended up citing it
Paperback, 1980
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Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah ArendtAndrés PertierraMaybe I’m totally off base but it seems like The Great Transformation is the Social Democratic equivalent to Hannah Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism. Both are trying to figure out how 19th century liberal society and its breakdown led to WWII
Paperback, 2011
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Heart of Darkness
J. ConradAndrés PertierraFor those interested, there's King Leopold's Ghost, which is apparently a very readable serious history. The horrors of the Belgian Congo were also the inspiration for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Conrad personally visited the Belgian Congo before writing it.
Out of stock