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by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011

In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by...

Hollow City

The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.

Desire Unlimited

The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

by Paul Julian Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014

In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award–winning drama Talk to Her to the 2011 horror film The...

Atlas of Emotion

Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

by Giuliana Bruno
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between...

Imagined Communities

Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

by Benedict Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2006

The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously...

The Intellectual and His People

Staging the People Volume 2

by Jacques Ranciere
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

Following the previous volume of essays by Jacques Rancière from the 1970s, Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double, this second collection focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive...

Staging the People

The Proletarian and His Double

by Jacques Ranciere
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of “heretical” knowledge and of the relationship between work...

The Spectacle of Disintegration

Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century

by McKenzie Wark
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark continues the SI’s story, charting its post-sixties legacy and putting the late work of the Situationists in a broader, deeper context. He uncovers a contemporary relevance and searching...

Noise Uprising

The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution

by Michael Denning
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music Noise Uprising brings to life the moment and sounds of a cultural revolution. Between the development of electrical recording in 1925 and the outset of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, the soundscape of modern times unfolded in...

Development Arrested

The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta

by Clyde Woods
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between the African Americans and planters in the Mississippi Delta. In a definitive study of the history and social structures of the plantation system, Clyde Woods examines both planter domination of politics and...

The Leveller Revolution

Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650

by John Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016

The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English Revolution The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings...

Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism

Radical Politics After Yugoslavia

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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015

This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical “democracies.” The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who...

Weimar in Exile

The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America

by Jean-Michel Palmier
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

A magisterial history of the artists and writers who left Weimar when the Nazis came to power In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, “the best of Germany,” refusing to...
by Rosa Luxemburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013

The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among...
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