Mathias 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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Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Working on a PhD in history at Temple University. Study Central and Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Czechoslovakia
Money Answers all Things
Jacob VanderlintMathias"Money Answers All Things" - Jacob Vanderlint, 1734 https://t.co/gtEMTNLnnC
Hardcover, 2015
$31.95Member price:$28.75 + Free shipping10% off
Afropessimism
Frank B. WildersonMathiasAfropessimism is wild just as a memoir. Frank Wilderson writes that he and his lover in the 70s were being radiation poisoned by their neighbor who was a nuclear physicist, part of a conspiracy with the FBI to prevent his lover going public about a real estate scam in Minneapolis
Paperback, 2021
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Class Struggle: Erfurt Program
Karl KautskyMathiasAmong the first Marxist works that both Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong read was Kautsky's "The Class Struggle (Erfurt Program)." Probably already out there somewhere but would be cool to do a global history of the impact of Kautsky's thought https://t.co/v77lORTDvS
Paperback, 2021
$13.10Member price:$11.79 + Free shipping10% off
China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A.
John K. FairbankMathiasJohn King Fairbank opening "China: A New History" with a mention of the Kennedy assassination lol. - "One president was assassinated for reasons not yet known which we prefer not to ask about." https://t.co/VIWiosxltT
Out of stock
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex HaleyMathiasAlex Haley's book "Roots" and the American TV miniseries adaptation of it were popular in the 1980s in Poland and became a reference point for Polish criticism of the Soviet Union - Poles compared themselves to Kunta Kinte as being enslaved by the Soviet Union https://t.co/x3brbOAdsu
Paperback, 2016
$22.99Member price:$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade After World War I
Charles S. MaierMathiasCharles Maier in his 2015 preface to "Recasting Bourgeois Europe" noted that it would be impossible to write such a work under current conditions in academia. "The formation of young scholars today does not usually allow such an extended labor without professional catastrophe." https://t.co/dN1AqDzVG0
Paperback, 2015
$37.00Member price:$37.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaMathiasImagining a guy who reads Hanya Yanagihara's new novel without having read A Little Life prior
Paperback, 2016
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory
Moishe PostoneMathiasBuying Postone's "Time, Labor, and Social Domination" off Amazon - the cruelest irony of all
Paperback, 1996
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How the Steel Was Tempered: Part One (Mass Market Paperback)
Nikolai OstrovskyMathiasEven during the Cultural Revolution, Nikolai Ostrovsky's "How the Steel Was Tempered" was a mega-literary touchstone in China https://t.co/bvpCRG2JVw
Paperback, 2018
$19.99Member price:$17.99 + Free shipping10% off
Rust Belt
Sean KnickerbockerMathiasNew Left Review Sidecar piece on how Vance and Fetterman represent the latest mode of party mobilization of Rust Belt voters via the theatrics of white ethnic identity - Hillbilly vs. Yinzer
Paperback, 2019
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book