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by Raphael Samuel, Alison Light
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood...

Rebel Crossings

New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States

by Sheila Rowbotham
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

The transatlantic story of six radical pioneers at the turn of the twentieth century Rebel Crossings relates the interweaving lives of four women and two men as they journey from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, from Britain to America, and from Old World conventions toward New World...

The Ancients and the Postmoderns

On the Historicity of Forms

by Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson’s major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music (Wagner and Mahler), are pitted against...

The Beast

Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

by Oscar Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon...

The Age of Inequality

Corporate America's War on Working People

by Jeremy Gantz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arundhati Roy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

The stories behind the inequality crisis—a forty-year investigation by In These Times With heart-wrenching reporting and incisive analysis, In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the American middle class. Here, in a selection from four decades...

Drone Warfare

Killing by Remote Control

by Medea Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

Drone Warfare is the first comprehensive analysis of one of the fastest growing—and most secretive—fronts in global conflict: the rise of robot warfare. In 2000, the Pentagon had fewer than fifty aerial drones; ten years later, it had a fleet of nearly 7,500, and the US Air Force now trains more...
by Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011

A thrilling example of philosophy in action, Towards a New Manifesto reveals the fathers of critical theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas. A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing...

None of Us Were Like This Before

American Soldiers and Torture

by Joshua E.S. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012

None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional warfare to guerrilla war and prisoner detention. Phillips’s narrative reveals how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, descended...

Britain's Empire

Resistance, Repression and Revolt

by Richard Gott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

This revelatory new history punctures the still widely held belief that the British Empire was an enlightened and civilizing enterprise of great benefit to its subject peoples. Instead, Britain’s Empire reveals a history of systemic repression and almost continual violence, showing how British rule...
by Lindsey German, John Rees
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

In the eyes of Britain’s heritage industry, London is the traditional home of empire, monarchy and power, an urban wonderland for the privileged, where the vast majority of Londoners feature only to applaud in the background. Yet, for nearly 2000 years, the city has been a breeding ground...
by Carla Blumenkranz
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011

The first book to explore the Occupy movement in depth, with reportage and analysis.In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occupy! combines...
by Eric Hazan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat—the events and figures...

Irregular Army

How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror

by Matt Kennard
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012

Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals...

A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People

John Bunyan and His Church

by Christopher Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written? John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity...
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