{"product_id":"secondhand-history-politics-bargain-book-box-sp4194","title":"Secondhand History \u0026 Politics Bargain Book Box SP4194","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand History \u0026amp; Politics Bargain Book Box SP4194\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwenty-one Penguin Specials, Pelican Books, and Penguin Classics from the 1960s and early 1970s — a remarkable collection of political and historical writing including two Martin Luther King titles, A.J.P. Taylor’s The Origins of the Second World War, Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Ruth First’s memoir of South African detention, and Cordwainer Smith’s Chronicles of the Crusades. Please note these are secondhand copies in vintage condition and may show wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReport from a Chinese Village — Jan Myrdal — Myrdal’s 1963 account of life in a Chinese village under Mao, based on extensive interviews with peasants; one of the most important works of political reportage of the twentieth century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChaos or Community? — Martin Luther King — King’s 1967 call for a radical reorientation of American society beyond civil rights to economic justice; his most explicitly socialist argument and, written months before his death, his most urgent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e117 Days — Ruth First — First’s account of her 117 days in solitary confinement under South Africa’s Ninety-Day Detention Law; a Penguin Special that became an essential document of the anti-apartheid struggle. First was later assassinated by a letter bomb.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStride Toward Freedom — Martin Luther King Jr. — King’s 1958 account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the principles of nonviolent resistance; his first book and the foundational text of the civil rights movement’s theory and practice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Six Day War — Randolph S. \u0026amp; Winston S. Churchill — The father-and-son account of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, published within months of the fighting; still one of the most readable accounts of those extraordinary six days.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKhhrushchev’s Russia — Edward Crankshaw — Crankshaw’s Penguin Special account of post-Stalin Soviet society, written by the Observer’s long-standing Moscow correspondent; acute, accessible, and still essential for understanding the Khrushchev years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Making of Modern Russia — Lionel Kochan — A concise history of Russia from the earliest times to the Cold War; one of the most reliable single-volume accounts of Russian history in the Pelican catalogue.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSouth-East Asia in Turmoil — Brian Crozier — A Penguin Special written at the height of the Vietnam War, surveying the political situation across the region; a document of the anxieties that shaped Western policy in Southeast Asia through the 1960s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChinese Looking Glass — Dennis Bloodworth — A study of Chinese national psychology and culture across 3,000 years of history; Bloodworth was the Observer’s Southeast Asia correspondent and writes with unusual cultural sympathy.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommunist China (China Readings 3) — ed. Franz Schurmann \u0026amp; Orville Schell — The third in the China Readings series, gathering primary documents and commentary on the People’s Republic; an essential academic reference of its period.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe New States of West Africa — Ken Post — A Penguin African Library account of the newly independent nations of West Africa in the 1960s, surveying their political structures and prospects; a document of post-colonial optimism and its complications.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChurchill: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Vol. 2 — Winston Churchill — The second volume of Churchill’s sweeping history, covering the New World; Churchill’s history writing is itself a historical document, embodying mid-century assumptions about empire and destiny.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronicles of the Crusades — Joinville \u0026amp; Villehardouin — The Penguin Classics edition of two twelfth and thirteenth-century accounts of the Crusades by participants; extraordinary primary historical testimony about events of enormous consequence.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRevolutionary Europe 1783–1815 — George Rudé — The Fontana History of Europe volume covering the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period; Rudé writes social history with a Marxist precision that makes the period newly legible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNasser’s Egypt — Peter Mansfield — A Penguin African Library account of Nasser’s Egypt in the 1960s, surveying the political and social transformation of the Arab world’s most important state.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCuba: An American Tragedy — Robert Scheer \u0026amp; Maurice Zeitlin — A Penguin Special analysis of the Cuban Revolution and American policy toward it; written with the urgency of the missile crisis still fresh.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepublican China (China Readings 2) — ed. Franz Schurmann \u0026amp; Orville Schell — The second China Readings volume, covering the Republican period before 1949; essential context for understanding the Communist revolution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMao Tse-Tung — Stuart Schram — The political biography of Mao that became the standard Western account of his rise and ideology; Schram had access to Mao’s early writings unavailable to other scholars.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Origins of the Second World War — A.J.P. Taylor — Taylor’s controversial 1961 masterwork, arguing that Hitler was an opportunist rather than a planner; one of the most argued-about history books of the twentieth century and an essential document in historiographical debate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA History of Latin America — George Pendle — A concise Pelican survey of Latin American history from the pre-Columbian period to the 1960s; Pendle’s overview remains one of the most readable single-volume introductions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe American Challenge — Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber — The 1967 French bestseller arguing that American corporate power was colonising Europe’s economy; one of the defining political books of the late 1960s and a progenitor of anti-globalisation thinking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50595609411803,"sku":"SP4194","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4194.jpg?v=1791418753","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-history-politics-bargain-book-box-sp4194","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}