Political Economy and Social Change: From Colonization to Globalization

Fall Books

Required

Luis Rodriguez, Music of the Mill

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, latest ed.

E.K. Hunt, Property and Prophets; The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies (2003 ed.).

Vincent Harding, There is a River:  The Black Struggle for Freedom in America

Richard Drinnon, Facing West:  The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital

Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis:  Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.

Thomas McCormick, America’s Half Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After (2nd ed.).

 

Recommended

Jennifer Willsea  (ed.), Alternatives to the Peace Corps (tenth ed.).

Joan Powell, Education for Action:  Undergraduate and Graduate Programs that Focus on Social Change (fourth edition)

William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction