Quinn Slobodian 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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Quinn Slobodian is a historian. CRACK-UP CAPITALISM out now from Metropolitan, Penguin. Soon from Suhrkamp, Seuil: https://t.co/xuFq8qQSfz

Uncommon Wealth: You Are Your Best Asset - Invest in Yourself!
Bryan Dewhurst
Thursday Apr 6 at @HarvardCES: @KojoKoram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth https://t.co/qEYC9hdgbN https://t.co/o5by9uIoZA
Hardcover, 2021
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara E. Mattei
probably a good week to start reading @claraemattei's book on interwar British and Italian fiscal policy and the road to fascism...
Paperback, 2025
$22.50$11.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World
Corey Ross
Interesting from Corey Ross in Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire. Has anyone else in recent memory deployed “the tropics” as synonym for global South? https://t.co/AfA7qZbswK
Paperback, 2019
$38.99$19.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom
Timothy P. R. Weaver
Great piece by author of the excellent “Blazing the Neoliberal Trail” on urban policy, @tprweaver https://t.co/mXQ4BKnSs9
Hardcover, 2016
$90.00$65.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Ramachandra Guha
Excellent piece by Ramachandra Guha for @FT on recent (and long-standing) Hindu nationalist campaigns against Gandhi https://t.co/YHM2WGjSC3
Paperback, 2019
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Brett Christophers
Shout to the “niche entity” @Cmmonwealth in Brett Christophers’s Rentier Capitalism https://t.co/j1QPBoFKce
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eugenics: A Reassessment
Richard Lynn
Most startling archival discovery was that Ralph Harris, general director of the @iealondon for thirty years, proposed founding a “Francis Galton Institute of Human Motivation” with race scientist Richard Lynn. They even considered taking over the British Eugenics Society…
Out of stock

No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality
Paul Adler
Finally in print, my review of @padlerman's excellent No Globalization Without Representation that maps out the post-NIEO alter-globalization network from the 70s to the 90s, Penang to Geneva to DC--relevant for the anniversary of the Iraq War too. https://t.co/H3u0qecp3K https://t.co/RSu19m35Aq
Paperback, 2025
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
Andreas Malm
Malm and the @ZetkinCo had an answer to this in White Skin, Black Fuel https://t.co/q8ZbCJpi1Y
Paperback, 2021
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Imperialism: A Study of the History, Politics and Economics of the Colonial Powers in Europe and America (Hardcover)
J. A. Hobson
@JohnPatLeary @TeenVogue First page of Hobson’s Imperialism seems apt: “shifty, elusive…demands the closest vigilance.” https://t.co/52F7KNO8TB
Hardcover, 2018
$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book