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Unravelling Gramsci

Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy

by Adam David Morton
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015

‘Powerful and clarifying ... The book’s combination of careful argument and cogent illustration will make this a landmark volume in Gramscian studies.’ John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power ‘Morton draws upon an impressive...

Marx's 'Eighteenth Brumaire'

(Post)Modern Interpretations

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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2002

Marx's account of the rise of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte is one of his most important texts. Written after the defeat of the 1848 revolution in France and Bonaparte's subsequent coup, it is a concrete analysis that raises enduring theoretical questions about the state, class conflict and ideology.*BR**BR*Unlike...

Georges Bataille

A Critical Introduction

by Benjamin Noys
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2000

This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism...

A Century of Spin

How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power

by David Miller, William Dinan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007

This book charts the relentless rise of the public relations industry and how it has transformed our society. Revealing the roots of the PR movement in the years leading up to the First World War, it shows how it became a key tool in the struggle to subordinate democracy to corporate rule. It is the...

What is Islamophobia?

Racism, Social Movements and the State

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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

As racist undercurrents in many western societies become manifestly entrenched, the prevalence of Islamophobia - and the need to understand what perpetuates it - has never been greater. *BR**BR*Critiquing the arguments found in notionally left accounts and addressing the limitations of existing responses,...

Painting the Town Red

Politics and the Arts During the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic

by Bob Dent
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018

The intensely political cultural production that erupted during Hungary's short-lived Soviet Republic of 1919 encompassed music, art, literature, film and theatre. Painting the Town Red is the little-known history of these developments.*BR* *BR*The book opens with an overview of the political context...

Israel and the Clash of Civilisations

Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East

by Jonathan Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2008

Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel's key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel's own.*BR* *BR*This concise and...

Blood and Religion

The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State

by Jonathan Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006

This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region’s Palestinians become a majority.*BR**BR*The book charts Israel’s increasingly desperate responses to its predicament...

In Their Place

The Imagined Geographies of Poverty

by Stephen Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017

This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories. The alleged behavioural failings of ‘poor people’ have attracted a great...

War and Empire

The American Way of Life

by Paul L. Atwood
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2010

American history is not often truthfully told. Dispelling the myths that have bolstered national myth making, Paul Atwood attempts to show Americans that their history is one of constant wars of aggression and imperial expansion.*BR**BR*From the declaration of Independence to present day, War and...
by Fawwaz Traboulsi
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating account of one of the world's most fabled countries.*BR**BR*Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth...

Do I Belong?

Reflections from Europe

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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017

‘Belonging’ is both a fundamental human emotion and a political project that affects millions. Since its foundation in 1957, the European Union has encouraged people across its member states to feel a sense of belonging to one united community, with mixed results. Today, faced with the fracturing...
by Gregory Harms, Todd M. Ferry
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017

The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period. The Palestine-Israel Conflict provides a balanced, accessible,...
by Neil Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017

The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history. In this fast-paced introduction, Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it, showing how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, mobilised for militant action and destroyed a...
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